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Funny or Strange Sermons You Have Heard
Please don't turn this thread into a preacher bashing one! I thought it would be interesting for folks to share strange or funny sermons, sermon titles, stories in sermons, etc that they have heard in Pentecost.
I don't have a real knee slapper to start off with but today I remembered a sermon I heard while visiting a church I found amusing. The young evangelist preached a sermon on the premise of being thankful to God for what did NOT happen to you.
The sermon was peppered with examples like "You did not get hit by a train today - so THANK GOD!!!!". He was really trying to wind the congregation up into a thanking frenzy for all of the bad things that could have happened to them but did not.
I remember thinking to myself that there sure seemed to be a lot of tangible things we could give God praise and thanks for before resorting to being thankful for bad things that didn't happen!
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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