Contributed by Brian La Croix on Apr 27, 2009
So how do we avoid deception? There’s only one main way to do that:
By studying the truth.
I had heard years ago that bank tellers and such are trained to spot counterfeit money by studying the real stuff so much that they can spot the phony stuff right away.
I wasn’t sure if that was really
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Scott Bayles on May 13, 2009
NINETY-NINE BALLOONS
Eliot was born with an undeveloped lung, a heart with a hole in it and DNA that placed faulty information into each and every cell of his body. However, that could not stop the living God from proclaiming Himself through this boy who never uttered a word.
Even though doctors
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Contributed by Jim Blevins on May 14, 2009
Let me just say that when in my mother's house, you do not have to worry about ever moving if you don't want too. I grew up not doing anything around the house. Oh, I worked outside some but my mom was a perfectionist and still is, so we kids never had to do anything because we exploited her desire
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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AMAZING GRACE – 7 VS.
A little-known fact is that when this song was penned nearly 200 years ago by John Newton it was not titled "Amazing Grace". Its original title was "Faiths Review and Expectation".
It also had seven verses and not four as originally written.
Verse 1
Amazing grace! How
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Contributed by Vera Hughes on Jan 20, 2010
Let me share with you my story of the “Great Cake Bake”.
The great cake bake is the story of the day I was to prepare the ultimate cake for Thanksgiving dinner with my new in-laws. I mean this cake was going to be better than Betty Crocker could imagine. I remember waking up on Thanksgiving Day
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 20, 2010
HIS DANGEROUS CONDITION
A drunkard husband, spending the evening with his jovial companions at a tavern, boasted that if he should take a group of his friends home with him at midnight and ask his Christian wife to get up and cook supper for them, she would do it without complaint.
The crowd
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Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
You have never given God anything. We have only returned to Him what is already His—that’s what the Bible makes clear.
A.W. Tozer said it like this:
I am obliged to tell you that God doesn’t need anything that you have. He does not need a dime of your money. It is your own spiritual welfare
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Here’s an illustration of delighting in a weakness:
Charlie Boswell was blinded during World War 2. But he didn’t allow his blindness to stop him from playing sports. In fact he went on to become the 13 time USA Blind Golf Champion In 1958 Charlie was presented with the Ben Hogan award. Hogan, of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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I recently read an article that told this story, “The most sacred symbol in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a tree: a sprawling, shade-bearing, 80-year-old American Elm. Tourists drive from miles around to see her. People pose for pictures beneath her. Arborists carefully protect her. She adorns
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 19, 2007
Several years ago, when I lived in San Antonio, the jr. high kids from our church were on an outing to the local lazar tag facility. When the kids arrived they were told that they were being bumped by a group of VIPs who had come to the facility just before them and so they had to wait an hour for
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 6, 2007
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Tony Campolo is a Baptist professor and preacher who has the gall to insist that we look at things, even sacred cows, from a truly Christian perspective. He’s a compelling motivational speaker who speaks to many kinds of audiences. He once was invited to speak at a sales conference sponsored by a
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Baptist
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