Once at a young girl’s funeral, I had to make just such a decision. The girl’s father was a member of our church and an air force serviceman. He was an aide on Air Force One and had flown with the president many times. A few generals and lots of upper-crust brass attended the funeral. When it came
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Baptist
Contributed by Warren Lamb on Nov 10, 2006
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A Baby’s Hug
We were the only family with children in the restaurant. I sat Erik in a highchair and noticed everyone was quietly sitting and talking. Suddenly, Erik squealed glee and said, "Hi." He pounded his fat baby hands on the high chair tray. His eyes were crinkled in laughter and his mouth
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2003
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HUGGING THE ENEMY
Barbara Brown Taylor tells the story of her nephew Will’s first birthday party. The family was gathered around for the usual traditions of birthdays, the cake. And the presents. Will let them know how pleased he was by doing his new dance-a slow twirling movement that he had
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2002
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HUGGING IS THE ANSWER!
Perhaps I feel this way because my wife is affectionately known as "The Happy Hugger." If it’s moving she’ll stop it and hug it, and if it’s not moving she’ll dust it off and sell it!
However, there’s another reason I believe hugging is the answer. According to Greg
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Contributed by Aurora Alonso on Sep 13, 2010
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Have you hugged your child today? How can you hug someone if he or she is not close to you? You need to be close up in order to give them a hug, right? Well , God wants to give us a BIG BIG Hug, but i ask you Has God Hugged You today? If not Why? Is it because you have not gotten close enough to
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2002
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A HUG OF MY OWN
When my wife and I lived in Honduras, we spent part of our time helping a ministry called Amor y Vida (Love and Life). This ministry acted as an orphanage and hospice because the people who lived there were children who had cancer and had been abandoned by their family.
While we
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Contributed by Mark Brunner on Oct 9, 2005
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Making God-Hugs Possible! (10.12.05--Sacrifice!--Matthew 19:21)
Does God place limits on how far He wants us to go when it comes to committing to His will? If His will is our sacrifice, can there be any limits? Is our God reasonable when it comes to our ability to forbear or to bear?
God, of
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
I heard a story about a father who told his son when he reached 12 years old that he would only shake hands with him from now on. Finally, some 20 or 25 years later the son, now a grown man, said, “Dad can I hug you?” And the son and
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“When I was a boy I used to hug a rubber hot water bottle in bed at night to beat off the chill air from the frigid Irish Sea. Comfort! One morning I woke up wet, cold, and miserable. The rubber hot water bottle had perished. It had slowly deteriorated, imperceptibly disintegrated and was
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 2, 2006
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A business executive became depressed. Things were not going well at work, and he was bringing his problems home with him every night. Every evening he would eat his dinner in silence, shutting out his wife and five-year-old daughter. Then he would go into the den and read the paper using the
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Christian Church
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Bill Orr and Erwin Lutzer collaborated on a cute book called If I Could Change My Mom and Dad (Moody). The authors compiled notes written by children who had been asked to complete this sentence: "If I could change my mom and dad, I would …" One sweet twelve-year-old girl wrote:
"If I could
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Denomination:
Charismatic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"So if you have a grandma Thank the Good Lord up above, And give Grandma hugs and kisses,
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Nov 8, 2007
What is it like to sign your name to a paper that could possibly mean the end of your life? What is it like to walk down the cold hallways of a processing station? What is it like to sleep in a squeaky bunk bed where men have laid down their lives to never come home again? It takes the faith of
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 12, 2013
IS YOUR CHURCH AN ENCYCLOPEDIA?
There is a story about a man who was walking down the street. He passed a used-book store, and in the window he saw a book with the title, "How to Hug."
He was taken by the title and, being of a somewhat romantic nature, went in to buy the book. To his chagrin, he
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them,
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Contributed by David Ward on Dec 15, 2004
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David Peterson, former pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Spokane, Washington, told about a time when he was preparing his sermon. His little daughter came in and said, "Daddy, can we play?" He answered, "I’m awfully sorry, Sweetheart, but I’m right in the middle of preparing this sermon.
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Denomination:
Baptist