Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 10, 2008
A Thanks Offering
1 Chronicles 29:16, "O LORD our God, as for all this abundance that we have provided for building you a temple for your Holy Name, it comes from your hand, and all of it belongs to you."
Christians are the temple that God cares about today, for 1 Corinthians 3:16 and 17
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Gerald Manning on Nov 22, 2015
Words of Offering:
A rich, but cynical businessman said to one of his staff, "Show me a truly unselfish act and I will give you a $100 bill." The staffer, said, "OK, walk with me at the lunch hour." They went to that part of town where there were lots of street people.
The staffer said,
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Nazarene
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"If youre offered an honorarium for a speech, you can be sure the money
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
An organization in Montana offered a bounty of five thousand dollars for every wolf captured alive. Two hunters named Sam and Jed decided to head for the hills and make some money capturing wolves. Day and night they scoured the mountains and forests searching for their valuable prey. Exhausted
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Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 10, 2008
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A Thanks Offering For God's Grace
In this country, the entire nation celebrates Thanksgiving in November. Some celebrate by busily preparing food, watching football and gathering with family. These are great Thanksgiving celebrations. However, Christians have a greater blessing in the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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OFFER YOUR LIFE TO HIM
In a large cathedral in Europe there was a very large, magnificent pipe organ. It was a Saturday afternoon, and the custodian was making one final check the organ loft high in the balcony at the back of the church.
He was startled to hear footsteps echoing up the
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 11, 2009
NOT JUST ANOTHER OFFERING
I had been praying regularly with the deacons for one of our members. His wife, Pat, attended our small congregation faithfully, but John hadn’t been to church in years. So every Sunday afternoon before the evening service, we prayed for ways to communicate our commitment
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 11, 2001
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Illus.: “Empty Offering Plate”
An artist who wished to paint a picture of a “dead church” visited a sanctuary with beautiful stained-glass windows and a magnificent pipe organ. Every pew was filled, but the offering plate, lying in the vestibule, was marked “FOR
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 17, 2000
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Peter Drucker offers insightful guidance to the church when he calls leadership a peak performance by one who is "the trumpet that sounds a clear sound of the organizations’ goals." His five requirements for this task are amazingly reliable and useful for those who dare to lead churches:
(1) a
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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ARE WE SO FOCUSED ON THE CROWD AND THE OFFERINGS THAT WE CAN’T SEE? ARE WE MATERIALISTIC MINDED?
I love Indian arrow heads. I lived in Virginia and I collected arrow heads for me and a few friends. I had a super collection.
I displayed my arrow heads in my office at church.
Someone broke into the
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Feb 14, 2004
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A British publication once offered a prize for the best definition of a friend. Among the thousands of answers received were the following:
"One who multiplies joys, divides grief, and whose honesty is inviolable."
"One who understands our silence."
"A volume of sympathy bound in cloth."
"A watch
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Contributed by David Elvery on Nov 13, 2004
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An organization in Montana once offered a bounty of five thousand dollars for every wolf captured alive. Two hunters named Sam and Jed decided to head for the hills and make some money capturing wolves. Day and night they scoured the mountains and forests searching for their valuable prey.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2006
Choices: The overall number of products offered in an average-size supermarket stands at around 22,000. Last year, there were over 21,000 new products introduced. An eye-popping 1,500 actually made it into stores, the highest
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Contributed by John Shearhart on May 18, 2006
A British publication once offered a prize for the best definition of a friend. The winning definition read: "A friend is the one who comes in when the whole
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Contributed by Chris Jordan on Nov 29, 2009
"Living in the twenty-first century offers tremendous opportunities to those who have--but for the three billion people of the world living on less than two dollars a day, it’s a crushing existence of grinding poverty, despair, and unremitting daily
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*other
Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 10, 2008
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A Thanks Offering For His Plans for Us
Jeremiah 29:11-13 says, "For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational