Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 2, 2014
Daniel Overdorf- One Friday afternoon I struggled to prepare for the weekend. The week’s hectic pace, filled with activities, left me scrambling on Friday to finish my sermon. While I hunched over my desk, unable to develop anything that resembled a sermon, the office phone rang. From the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
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(3) "Some of us stay at the cross,
some of us wait at the tomb,
Quickened and raised with Christ
yet lingering still in the gloom.
Some of us ’bide at the Passover feast
with Pentecost all unknown,
The triumphs of grace in the heavenly place
that our Lord has made His own.
If the Christ who died
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Contributed by Jung Lee on Jan 18, 2024
In one of the YouTube videos, Neil deGrasse Tyson shares his observation that humans, unlike most animals, sleep on their backs, naturally facing the sky. This position may have fostered a deep connection with the heavens. However, from a Christian perspective, this curiosity and upward gaze might
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 7, 2005
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Heavenly Botox! (09.12.05--Heavenly Citizens!--2 Cor. 5:17)
Make-overs! We are a people obsessed with them these days. We restore our cars, pump botox into our chins and eyelids, remodel our homes at a record pace and are transfixed by the various shows on television whose story lines are founded
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 14, 2002
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In his book, In the Heavenlies, Dr. Harry Ironside tells the story of an attempted assassination of Queen Elizabeth I. The woman who sought to do so dressed as a male page and secreted herself in the queen’s boudoir awaiting the convenient moment to stab the queen to death. She did not realize that
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 8, 2010
"The Talmud states that a Bat Kol (heavenly voice) was heard (on two separate occasions) declaring that Hillel and Samuel were worthy of the Shekinah (Divine Presence)…"
[from "Jesus the Pharisee" by Harvey
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 10, 2005
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See Life as a Squint! (09.13.05--Heavenly Citizens!--Romans 8:25)
What is easily taught but not soon learned: easily preached, but not soon believed: good advice, but not easily followed: well spoken but hard to do?.
The answer? Patience. If there is one thing that none of us is capable of doing
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 1, 2002
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Our Heavenly Father, help us to remember that freedom cannot be handed down and maintained without effort; that each generation must
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Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 11, 2005
Life Is An Arugula Sandwich! (09.14.05--Heavenly Citizens!--Proverbs 10:28)
Arugula, Also known as rocket, roquette, rugula and rucola, was a name of something I may of heard of once or twice; but never really had an appreciation for what it was. Over the past week that has all changed.
Arugula
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Lutheran
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 13, 2005
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Just Passing Through! (09.16.05--Heavenly Citizens!--John 8:51)
How disturbing it would be to take a trip and every time you came to a town or city you were compelled to stop and investigate every facet of where you were; to taste and see everything there was everywhere you went. So inclined you
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
"Our Heavenly Father, so far from ever overlooking us, is only waiting to find our hearts open, to pour
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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Our Heavenly Father has an amazing sense of humour; He will bring across your path the kind of people who
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Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 12, 2005
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Do Some Screaming! (09.15.05--Heavenly Citizens!--1 Cor 15:31)
The hog-nose snake flipped over on its back and coiled itself up into a neat coil. It lay seemingly lifeless in front of us somehow waiting for us to either move on or dare to pick it up. Banking on the former, I am sure it was pleased
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Denomination:
Lutheran
Things Neglected
Once an ever waking thought
Once an every day pursuit
And then the day arrived
Where it was passed by
Maybe for just an instant
But it’s worth diminished in that moment
And in time it fell into the common ground
Of those things neglected.
One day the most valued thing of all
In
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Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Things Neglected
Once an ever waking thought
Once an every day pursuit
And then the day arrived
Where it was passed by
Maybe for just an instant
But it’s worth diminished in that moment
And in time it fell into the common ground
Of those things neglected.
One day the most valued thing of all
In
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Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Things Neglected
Once an ever waking thought
Once an every day pursuit
And then the day arrived
Where it was passed by
Maybe for just an instant
But it’s worth diminished in that moment
And in time it fell into the common ground
Of those things neglected.
One day the most valued thing of all
In
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Denomination:
Assembly Of God