Contributed by Ken Kersten on Jan 21, 2004
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A Sunday School teacher had just finished telling her third graders about how Jesus was crucified and placed in a tomb with a great stone sealing the opening. Then, wanting to share the excitement of the resurrection, she asked: "And what do you think were Jesus’ first words when He came bursting
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2005
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ALL THE EVIDENCE
Professor Thomas Arnold, for 14 years a headmaster of Rugby, author of the famous, History of Rome, and appointed to the chair of modern history at Oxford, was well acquainted with the value of evidence in determining historical facts. This great scholar said:
"I have been used
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2005
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THE HISTORICAL CREDENTIALS OF CHRISTIANITY
There exists no document from the ancient world, witnessed by so excellent a set of textual and historical testimonies . . . Skepticism regarding the historical credentials of Christianity is based upon an irrational bias.
~Clark Pinnock, Mcmaster
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2005
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HOW GOOD ARE THE FACTS?
I claim to be an historian. My approach to Classics is historical. And I tell you that the evidence for the life, the death, and the resurrection of Christ is better authenticated than most of the facts of ancient history . . .
~E. M. Blaiklock, Professor of Classics at
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2005
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MYTH MAKERS AND FABRICATORS?
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship had an interesting article written by Curtis Chang, refuting some of the claims made by Anada Gupta that the Bible, in regards to the resurrection of Jesus, was bad history and that the men who wrote it were just myth makers. Chang
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2005
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SUPER STUPID EASTER JOKES
Boy 1: "How did you get that bruise on your arm?"
Boy 2: "I ate some Easter candy."
Boy 1: "Eating Easter candy won’t give you a bruise." 7
Boy 2: "It will if it’s your big brother’s candy!"
Q: What would you get if you crossed the Easter Bunny with an overstressed
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Contributed by Mark Brunner on Mar 23, 2005
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“Kick Me!” Matthew 28:1-10 Key verse(s): 6:“He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.”
Getting pulled into a practical joke is not much fun; especially when you walk in so innocently and depart with egg all over your face. I remember that my two brothers and I always had a pretty good time
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Lutheran
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Mar 26, 2005
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“Easter on The Bench!” Matthew 28:1-10 Key verse(s) 5:“The angel said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.’”
Spending Easter Sunday alone is no way to spend Easter! Yet, when you have a bad virus and don’t want to infect anyone else, it may
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 27, 2005
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SO GOD’S REALLY IN THE DETAILS?
Economists use probability theory to predict how people will spend money. Actuaries use it to figure how high someone’s insurance premium will be.
In 2002, Richard Swinburne, who is a professor of philosophy at Oxford University, used a formula known as Baye’s
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Sep 24, 2016
Leonard Ravenhill tells the story of preaching an 8-day crusade in a large church in Glasgow, Scotland starting the first day of World War II. That shattered his meetings and no more than 50 people showed, so they started to meet in a side room instead. Despite this, he preached his heart out every
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Methodist
In 2001, I was serving as the youth pastor of Destiny Church and sitting at my office desk when I received a phone call from my mother. She called with sad news! My grandmother’s health had declined significantly and she was near death. She’d been suffering with Alzheimer’s for over seven years up
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Funerals usually go calmly. But sometimes things happen that change everything. Perhaps the greatest example is that of Easter morning, as the women arrive to prepare the body, only to find that the stone was rolled away and the body of Jesus was missing. There was much running around and great
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Samuel Young on Apr 6, 2021
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I am Zordak, Jesus’ guardian angel. I want to tell you the story of Jesus.
Jesus had died and laid in the grave. I was very sad.
There were one hundred Roman soldiers and whole army of evil angels guarding the grave.
But Sunday morning is coming…
It was still dark. The dew was still on the
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2009
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IF I SHOULD WAKE BEFORE I DIE
A father knelt down beside his little boy’s bed. It was time for prayers, hugs and kisses, and tucking in. The little boy began the childhood prayer he had repeated so many times before: now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2011
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FALSE HOPE IN A GOLD COIN
George Dixon was a lieutenant in the Confederate Army who carried around a $20 gold piece that his fiancée had given him in the early days of the war. During the battle of Shiloh, a union musket ball struck him--actually it struck the gold coin, which saved his life. From
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