Contributed by Ken Pell on Feb 4, 2012
THE POWER OF DELAYED GRATIFICATION
Years ago, psychologist Walter Mischel conducted an experiment on a group of four-year olds. Each child was offered a marshmallow, and was told that they could have it now, or if they could wait several minutes, they could have two. Some children grabbed the
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Nazarene
Contributed by Scott Weber on Mar 22, 2001
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This guy is waiting for a flight that is delayed. So he’s wandering around the airport and notices this ATM like machine. It’s a flight insurance machine. For a small price, it offers insurance against a canceled flight as well as a sizeable policy if the plane were to wreck and he were to die.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jun 21, 2005
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“There is nothing so hardening as delay. When God speaks to us, He asks for a tender heart, open to the whispers of His voice of love. The believer who answers the ‘today’ of the Holy Ghost with the ‘tomorrow’ of some more convenient season, knows not how he is hardening his heart; the delay,
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Orthodox
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 22, 2007
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While waiting at the airport for a delayed flight I got engaged in a conversation with a physicist who worked for the German electronics company that had played a leading role in developing the compact disc (CD). [Phillips and Sony, 1980] I told him I had a question that perhaps he could answer.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
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"Ambition is like love, impatient both of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2006
Marriage Delayed: Census Bureau figures for ’03 find a third of men and about a quarter of women ages 30-34 have never married, nearly 4 times higher than in’70. Today a woman typically marries at age 23.2 while men wait until they
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 8, 2010
Jesus’ love is not a pampering love; it is a perfecting love. It is not a love motivated by man’s will, but by the Father’s plan.
Why did Jesus delay going to Bethany? Why does He ever seem to delay in answering any prayer? Why does He seem to delay His coming on the clouds of
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Orthodox
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 21, 2001
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Someone made the wise comment: "To linger is to court ruin. Delay is the craftiest net of Satan. It is the terrible pitfall, out of which there are rare escapes" (Henry Law). When God speaks to us
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
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"Repentance is always difficult, and the difficulty grows
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is
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