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Time for Christmas Mountain! by Christopher Goelzer Isaiah 2:1-5 Each Christmas my family travels to Christmas Mountain – Wisconsin Dells, WI. During the summer when you travel through Wisconsin Dells you won't notice Christmas Mountain. It's just a normal looking hill not any taller or prettier than the other MORE... 
Getting Ready for Christmasby Andrew Chan Isaiah 2:1-5 Are you ready for Christmas? It's already the first Sunday of Advent. Three more Sundays and woo hoo celebration time! But are you ready? Just a couple of Saturdays ago the NHL staged an outdoor NHL hockey game out in MORE...
Get Ready!by Guy Caley Matthew 24:36-44 On September 15, 2001, President George W. Bush speaking to the nation from Camp David encouraged the American people to prepare themselves for a prolonged conflict we now know as the war on terror. And to the US armed forces he delivered MORE...
The
Second Coming (or "2006- The End of The World?")by Ewen Huffman Matthew 24:1-44 In November of 2003, the BBC carried this report on it's science show called Horizons: “Michael Drosnin is an American journalist and best selling author. He has written two books claiming that he can see into the future using a 3000 year old MORE...
 End
of Year Stuffby Steve Shepherd Romans 13:11-12 A young wife said to her husband, "Don't forget to bring home another mousetrap." Her husband said, "What's the matter with the one I bought yesterday?" She said, "IT'S FULL." End of year stuff. Get rid of full mousetraps. No~ end of year stuff MORE...
HERE COMES THE STAR!Bill Keane's comic strip, Family Circus, has communicated a beautiful truth about Christmas. As the children were setting up their nativity set, little Dolly held up the baby Jesus and declared, “Here's the star of Bethlehem!” SOURCE: Houston Chronicle, Family Circus, Dec. 23 1988. Contributed by: Mitchell Skelton
CHRISTMAS
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS To avoid offending anybody, the school dropped religion altogether and started singing about the weather. At my son's school, they now hold the winter program in February and sing increasingly non-memorable songs such as "Winter Wonderland," "Frosty the Snowman" and--this is a real song--"Suzy Snowflake," all of which is pretty funny because we live in Miami. A visitor from another planet would assume that the children belonged to the Church of Meteorology. SOURCE: Dave Barry in his "Notes on Western Civilization", Chicago Tribune Magazine, July 28, 1991. http://www.sermons.org/christmas5.html Contributed by: SermonCentralPRO
WHAT
IF THIS PRESENT WERE THE WORLD'S LAST NIGHT? C.S. Lewis makes reference to John Donne's poem, “What if this Present Were the World's Last Night?” And he makes this point: “A moralist will tell you that the personal triumph of an athlete or of a girl at a ball is transitory; the point is to remember that an empire or a civilization is also transitory. All achievements and triumphs, in so far as they are merely this-worldly achievements and triumphs, will come to nothing in the end. Most scientists here join hands with the theologians; the earth will not always be habitable. … The difference is that whereas the scientists expect only a slow decay from within, we reckon with sudden interruption from without - at any moment, “What if this present were the world's last night?” SOURCE: “Fern-seed and Elephants and other essays on Christianity, ” Fontana/Collins, 1975. Contributed by: Clark Tanner
THE CAPITAL DECLARATION
The Dome of the Capitol in Washington D.C. has this inscription: "One God, one law, one element; And one far off, divine event to which the whole creation moves." SOURCE: SermonCentral.com Citation: Jeff Strite, Church of Christ, Logansport. Indiana. Contributed by: SermonCentralPRO
PLUNGING TO MURKY EARTH A family was out vacationing at the lake one summer. Dad had been puttering out by the boat house. Two of his sons, a 12-year old and a 3-year old were down playing along the dock. The 12 year old was supposed to be watching his little brother, but he got distracted. The 3 year old, little Billy, thought that would be a good time to check out the shiny aluminum fishing boat tied up at the end of the dock. So he went to the dock and put one foot on the boat, and one foot on the dock. He lost his balance and fell into the water, which was about 5 or 6 ft deep. The splash alerted the 12-yr old who let out a piercing scream. Dad came running from the boat house, jumped into the water, swam down, but unable to see anything, came up for air. Sick with panic, he went right back down into this murky water, and began to feel everywhere around the bottom. He couldn't feel anything. Finally, on his way up, he felt little Billy's arms locked in a death grip on one of the posts of the dock, about 4 ft under water. Prying the boy's fingers loose, they burst up together thru the surface to fill their lungs with life giving air. Finally when the adrenaline had stopped surging, and nerves had calmed down a little bit, the Father asked his son, “What on earth were you doing down there hanging onto the post so far under the water? And little Billy's answer was a classic, laced with the wisdom only a toddler could give. He said, "I was just waiting for you dad. Just waiting for you." Friends, today we celebrate that 2000 yrs ago, the God of the universe left the glory and the splendor of heaven, a place where there was no pain and no sickness, no accidents, no hurt, and no death. And he plunged into this dark, murky world on a rescue mission, a rescue mission for all of us who are drowning, a rescue mission for all of us who are barely hanging on, a rescue mission for all of us who are lost in the darkness. SOURCE: Story told by Gene Appel, Willow Creek Community Church. Contributed by: Dennis Murphy
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