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Advent 2014
Nicolai Pedersen • Refuge Christian Fellowship • Illustration • • 7 views • 36:42
Dr. Mark A. Barber • Illustration • • 14 views
This is a Confession to go with the Christmas Eve Communion Service
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
With every new administration, there is hope that change will make a difference, even if it simply means trying out a new strategy. At the beginning of this year as President Trump took office, he had great hope that his son-in-law Jared Kushner, himself a Jew, would be able broker peace in the Middle…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
A British senior citizen, 87-year-old Ron Goldspink, is suffering from an ear condition that causes him to hear “God Save the Queen” playing continuously in his head. Ron says he has heard a male choir sing the British national anthem hundreds of times a day for the past four months. “Sometimes it’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 68 views
Researchers at Time Magazine searched American copyright records in the U. S. Copyright office for the number of times favorite Christmas songs have been recorded since 1978. The overwhelming choice as America’s favorite Christmas song is Silent Night. It has been recorded 733 times, almost twice as…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 12 views
Hey, the shepherds didn’t sit on what they heard. They were not passive. They, in fact, did three things: They investigated. They went to Bethlehem on a baby-hunt. Now they didn’t have a star like the wisemen did, so they had to look. They evidently went from stable to stable, looking for a feeding trough…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 8 views
Did you ever miss a great party? Now, I’m not talking about getting drunk or anything like that, I’m talking about a great party with friends and good food and all the things that make a party, a party. Did you ever miss one of those? ME I did. It was my Senior year in High School. I was living in Deerfield…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 6 views
James Bakker discovered that. This is a picture of Jim Bakker, not the televangelist, the diplomat. He was the Secretary of State under Bush and Reagan. Jim is a lawyer form Houston, Texas, an Episcopalian who knew some things about the Bible. But by his own testimony, He said he never really paid much…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
Maybe this story will show you what I mean. Imagine for a moment that you are on a cruise in the Carribean. (Kind of sounds good right now, given the temperatures we’ve been having around here!) All of sudden, in the middle of the night you hear a huge explosion. You leap up and get your clothes on as…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
I ran across a video as I was looking through some illustrations for this message. It came from, of all places, the Chicago Bears website. It’s a clip from their rookie training camp. One of the videos shows Coach Lovie Smith’s orientation talk to the rookie class. Of course, the biggest thing on each…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 8 views
I used to be the Minister of Youth here at Peace, way back in the ‘90's. A lot of our current teens were not even born then, but that’s another story for another day. When I first came to this church, we were having a cycle of kids who were . . . shall we say - DIFFICULT. OK, some of them were pretty…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 28 views
Christ’s birth changed the world; now we must spread the word. President Ronald Reagan once commented on the earthly ministry of Christ: “Meaning no disrespect to the religious convictions of others, I still can't help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the greatest miracle of all and which…
Illustration • • 18 views
In 1957 Dr. Seuss released his latest children’s book entitled How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Not since Charles Dickens’ Scrooge had there been a Christmas character as dark and mean spirited as the Grinch, who swept into Whoville in the dark of the night and stole all the Christmas presents. To his…
John Fimple • Illustration • • 48 views
A Savior has Been Born Often we read the story of Jesus’ birth in Luke 2:8-15 and we read it so serenely, that “there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks.” We imagine a beautiful, pastoral picture of those who first heard that Jesus had been born. However,…
Alan Wilkerson • Illustration • • 32 views
Young 'forget Jesus at Christmas' Fewer than half of children aged seven to 11 think Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, a survey suggests. Some 44% thought it was about Jesus, while 29% said it was about thinking of other people, and 24% said it was about giving rather than receiving gifts. The survey…
Wesley Crouch • Illustration • • 2,006 views
Thanksgiving Quiz – The Answers! Here are the answers to last week’s Thanksgiving Quiz: 1. When did a whole nation pause to give thanks to God? The Israelites, after the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 15). 2. When did four thousand people praise God with instruments? Under the appointment of King David…
Illustration • • 22 views
A woman was out Christmas shopping with her two children. After many hours of looking at row after row of toys and everything else imaginable, and after hours of hearing both her children asking for everything they saw on those many shelves, she finally made it to the elevator with her two kids. She…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 4 views
One person wrote of experiencing this kind of worship in a very likely place. He says: Locked behind the razor-wire fences of a Florida prison is no place to spend a holiday. I'd spent 15 Christmases under these less-than-festive conditions, but this year my situation looked even bleaker. I was stuck…
Illustration • • 55 views
God's Plan for Older Men and Older Women Ttus 2:2‑3 Now obviously this morning is going to be addressed to older men and older women. · America is now the oldest society in the history of the world. There has never been a society with this percentage of older people. Material comfort, medical care and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
NEW YEAR ABC News anchor Peter Jennings said, "It's not possible to simply celebrate this New Year's Eve, there's also a need to reflect." —USA Today, Dec. 28, 2001, p. 1 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson There is a need to reflect this year. Certainly we need to reflect upon the events of 9-11 that Jennings…
Illustration • • 336 views
John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…
Rev. Gregory S. Byrd • Illustration • • 19 views
Advent of Christ, the First A. Announced in the Old Testament by: Moses Deut. 18:18, 19 Samuel Acts 3:24 David Ps. 40:6–8; Heb. 10:5–8 Prophets Luke 24:26, 27 B. Prophecies fulfilled by his: Birth Is. 7:14; Matt. 1:23 Forerunner Mal. 3:1, 2; Matt. 3:1–3 Incarnation Is. 9:6 Time of arrival Dan. 9:24,…
Steve Bramham • Illustration • • 950 views
A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…
Kevin Owsley • Illustration • • 32 views
the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Angels March / 1987 "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." Hebrews 13:2 IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE ANGELS Have you ever seen an angel? Dr. S. W. Mitchell thought he had. Dr.…