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		<title>Installing Husband 1.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got this humorous story from a forwarded email. This is indeed perfect for both husband and wife. I hope you'll enjoy this funny conversation. God bless!!!

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A woman writes to the IT Technical support Guy


Dear Tech Support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and I noticed a distinct slowdown in the overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jeweler applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as  NEWS 5.0,   MONEY 3.0  and CRICKET 4.1.

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.

Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5..3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.

What can I do?

Signed,
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		<title>Illustrations About Eschatology or the Second Coming of Christ</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illustrations About Eschatology or the Second Coming of Christ


Eschatology is a branch of theology that studies the second coming of Christ.


The Bible speak great things about the second coming of Christ. The book of Revelation briefly described of what will it be in the end of times. There will be famines, darkness, and sores. I a suggest that you also try to see my post "Days of Elijah with Chords and Lyrics". The song briefly describes on the days of Elijah.

There are several views concerning Christ's second coming, and the most popular are these two; Pre-mellenialism and Post Mellenialism. It will be a great deal of theology in discussing these two which we will do in later times.

However, today, I will only be giving you some of best illustrations about eschatology or about the second coming of Christ. May you enjoy the stories.

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		<title>Sermon Illustrations On Becoming Thankful</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another Sermon Illustration Collection Perfect for Thanksgiving Day


Thanksgiving Day is fast approaching. So here is a collection of sermon illustration that you can use for Thanksgiving Day Sermon.

You can also use these collection in your sermon about being thankful to God. Sometimes, we overlooked our lives and only see all the negative things that are happening. But behind all that, God never left us in all those trails and sorrowful days of our lives.

May these stories and illustrations affect the way we respond to God in all circumstances we are in.
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<li><a href='http://thedisciplers.com/sermon-illustrations-for-christmas/' rel='bookmark' title='Sermon Illustrations For Christmas'>Sermon Illustrations For Christmas</a></li>
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		<title>A Story Of An Atheist In The Woods</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ptr. Vince</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a humorous nice illustration about an atheist (a person that does not believe on God) walking in the woods when suddenly a bear came out of no where to attack him.


Sometimes, we reject the existence of God until such time we come to the point where we don't have any choice to believe in Him. The worst thing is, we wait for that moment where we suffer tremendous pain and feel no hope at all. But there is God. All we have to do is to believe. The sad part is, we always want to attribute incidents to our life as accidents and not by workings of the divine being.


May this story gives you a good laugh and bless you.
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		<title>Illustrations About Money and The Joy Of Salvation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These Illustrates Relationship of Our Money With The Joy of Our Salvation


The illustrations below are very useful especially if you will be talking about the relationship of money and our joy of salvation in Christ.

It is true that there are times that in a church, if we start talking about supporting God's work and all other ministries financially, whole bunch of different issues and conflicts starts to rise. And suddenly we find out that we are no longer enjoying the works of service to our Lord.

Again, the book of Luke made such an example that we cannot be Christ's disciple unless we learn how to love God more than our needs.

I do hope these illustrations will help us realize on how God works and see the relationship of our finances to the ministry of God.

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		<title>Illustrations About Divorce and Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These illustrations talks about marital relationships and its effects to children. May these illustrations help pastors, preachers and ministers to promote love and Biblical teachings about marriage.

Where Is the Hope?

I recently saw a newspaper cartoon of a mother reading a bedtime story to her little, curly-haired daughter. The book was called Grim Reality Fairy Tales, and the text read, "and the prince kissed her and they fell in love, dated a while and moved in together, broke up, got back together, got married, got a baby, got separated, got back together again, broke up, got divorced, spent time alone rediscovering themselves, met someone new, fell in love and repeated the pattern habitually ever after."

This worldview is sad, hopeless, and far from what God intended. More than ever, our children wonder what marriage is and what they might hope for in a relationship.

Steve Zeisler, What Did Moses Command?

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		<title>Sermon Illustrations About Influencing Others</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ptr. Vince</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The collection of illustrations below is all about influencing others as Christians.


It is very important that as Christians, we are to become the salt of the world. We are to influence the world and not us being influenced by the world.


The mere fact that the Bible made an important emphasis in loving our neighbor, it also means that we are to influence them in the way that God loves the world.

The illustrations below can be a good source of good insights about loving our neighbor in the way God wants it to be.  

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		<title>Bread Of Life Illustrations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The collection of illustrations below is all about God as the provider, the Bread of Life.


God is the Jehovah Jireh, the great provider. But there is nothing more than he can give than what He already gave, the Bread of Life, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

During the time that we are in need, help comes from heaven above and is not from our own. Furthermore, many Christians strive hard to become good Christians. But they find it so difficult to stay "on track" because they haven't really found the real "bread of life" who sustains our spiritual life where we will not grow weary and exhausted.

May the illustrations below be a good examples in your sermons about God as the real "Bread of Life"

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		<title>Illustrations About Humility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illustrations About Humility is a collection of Sermon Illustrations that talks about being humble.


Humility is one of the things that every Christian should possess as Christ demonstrated.

May you enjoy the illustrations below.


Clothed with Humility


The word "humility" means literally a low estimate of self. But this does not imply self-deprecation. When you hear someone deprecating himself, usually you can put it down as a sort of counterfeit humility. Someone has said, "The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your full height before some higher nature that will show you how small your greatness is." "Walk humbly with thy God." Here is where we learn true humility. Walking with God, seeing ourselves by the side of His greatness, we see how little we are. And seeing how little we are is the first step toward becoming what we can and ought to be.

We never become truly great, we never do our best work until we are "clothed with humility"; until, like our Lord and Savior, we are willing to live to serve others.

John R. Gunn, Facing Life

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The Ambitious Disciples


Jesus and his disciples were coming to the town of Capernaum. As they entered the house where they would be staying, he asked his disciples, “What were you arguing about on the road?” But they kept quiet, says the writer of Mark’s Gospel, because on the way they had argued about who was number one among them.



So, the disciples were human just like you and I are human. Who doesn’t want to stand out? Some of the greatest people who have ever lived were also among the most ambitious.



It is said that Michelangelo prayed: “Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”



Abraham Lincoln often said to himself as a boy studying by the pine log fire at night: “I will study and get ready and perhaps my chance will come.” And, indeed, it did come.

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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Perfect Pastor (Male and/or female) is a humorous sermon illustration about a Church looking for a perfect pastor.

* The perfect pastor preaches exactly 10 minutes.
* He condemns sin roundly but never hurts anyone’s feelings.
* He works from 8 AM until midnight and is also the church janitor.
* The perfect pastor makes $40 a week, wears good clothes, drives a good car, buys good books, and donates $30 a week to the church.
* He is 29 years old and has 40 years experience.
* Above all, he/she is handsome/pretty.
* The perfect pastor has a burning desire to work with teenagers, and he spends most of his time with the senior citizens.
* He smiles all the time with a straight face because he has a sense of humor that keeps him seriously dedicated to his church.
* He makes 15 home visits a day and is always in his office to be handy when needed.
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