Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
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PAINTING THE PORCH
There was a lady who was preparing her Christmas cookies. There was a knock at the door. She went to find a man, his clothes poor, obviously looking for some Christmas odd jobs. He asked her if there was anything he could do. She said, "Can you paint?"
"Yes," he said. "I’m a
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It’s interesting to look at the people Paul publicly affirmed in his letters. When referring to them, the thing he commended was NOT their oratorical skills, or their personality, or their effectiveness, or their wealth, or any of the other things we often value so much in people and leadership. So
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Richard Conniff writes in National Geographic that on January 12, 1997, two Swiss men, Bertrand Piccard and Wim Verstraeten, set out to be the first to CIRCLE THE EARTH in a balloon. Their aircraft was called the Breitling Orbiter, and it was high-tech masterpiece, complete with solar power panels
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Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jan 24, 2025
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Did anyone else see the comet during the week, Comet Atlas 3G? Janaki and I went out to Titahi Bay to see it, thankfully we had another dad and daughter park near us who could point it out, otherwise we might not have seen it. The power of their witness was in instructing us where to look.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2002
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Charles Spurgeon and the Park Street tabernacle- Why did it lose its influence?
When Charles Haddon Spurgeon first went to Park Street church in London, he was nineteen years old. There he found a church with a seating capacity of fifteen hundred but with an attendance of under two hundred. Nine
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Contributed by Victor Yap on Aug 29, 2002
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Jerry West, the NBA’s top executive who signed Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant to Los Angeles, walked away from the Lakers after 40 years with the organization as a player, a coach, then an executive. He couldn’t even watch his team win the championship in 1999 after a long drought. He couldn’t
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Contributed by Keith Broyles on Nov 24, 2008
How easy it is to give credit and thanks to everything and everyone but the real source of al our blessings! God deserves our thanks.
For some of us there may be many reasons to be thankful this coming Thursday. Perhaps we may even see it as the best year we have ever had. For others of us, it
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 5, 2009
NO TOYS FOR SISTER
Two-year-old Sarah and her 13-year-old sister who had been fighting a lot. Sarah’s parents, trying to take advantage of her newfound interest in Santa Claus, reminded the two-year-old that Santa was watching and doesn’t like it when children fight. This had little impact.
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 26, 2009
Governor William Bradford’s account of the story of Plymouth Plantation discusses how the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth and their leaders initially planned to have everyone own and share everything. They planned for the people to work for the common good, and believed that this would produce
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Contributed by Tim White on Jun 19, 2009
Howard Conway, past president of the Dallas Auto Dealers Association for 25 years, chairman of deacons in Fellowship Baptist Church, denominatonal leader, counselor of many, can be found on Sunday Mornings with his wife teaching the 4 and 5 year old Sunday School class.
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 13, 2010
DR MARTIN LLOYD JONES WROTE - THE TROUBLE WITH PEOPLE, WHO ARE NOT SEEKING FOR A SAVIOR, AND FOR SALVATION, IS THAT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF SIN. IT IS A PECULIAR FUNCTION OF THE LAW TO BRING SUCH AN UNDERSTANDING TO A MANS MIND AND CONSCIENCE. THAT IS WHY GREAT EVANGELICAL PREACHERS
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On the Lighter Side of life:
Can you imagine yourself to being the nun that is sitting at her desk grading these papers all the while trying to keep a straight face and trying to maintain her calm and posture!
PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE WORDING AND SPELLING. IF YOU KNOW THE BIBLE EVEN A LITTLE,
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 29, 2012
THE ICE HOTEL
In January 2001 Canada's first Ice Hotel was opened. That's right -- Ice Hotel. The hotel is constructed of 12,000 tons of snow and 400 tons of ice covering more than 30,000 square feet. It has ceilings over 18 feet high, walls covered with original artwork, and furnishings carved
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Contributed by Dale Hummel on May 14, 2008
Spencer Morgan Rice, Rector of Trinity Church, Boston, once told ("Watch, Therefore, for Ye Know Not When the Master Cometh," 2 December 1984) of how early in his ministry he was serving a small congregation in the Los Angeles basin. The sexton of the church took as much interest in those who came
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