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Dr. James Dobson’s Focus On The Family recently aired this true story from Dr. Bob Reccord, president of the International Missions Board:
A pastor friend in Texas was in a hurry after work. He had to get to the mall for some items, go to his daughter’s school to pick her up, take her home, get
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 10, 2025
[222]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - PRAISE YE THE LORD
This is a praise hymn though no current tune fits the rhythm flow of the lines, and it requires tweaking of the lines for the exact rhythm. I am not doing that right now. There are six stanzas, each one with a new theme set in the first
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Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
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WHAT WILL YOUR HERITAGE BE?
An investigation into the famed 18th
century revival preacher Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) showed that, of the 1,394
known descendants of Jonathan Edwards, 100 became preachers and missionaries,
100 lawyers, 80 public officials, 75 army and navy officers, 65
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Contributed by Carla Powell on Jan 2, 2002
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Keeping a spending log - What does it say about you?
Try this exercise sometime. Look at the entries
in your checkbook or computer budget program.
Factor out bills like utilities, and compare
how much money you spend on certain categories
each week. How much money do you spend eating
out or
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
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A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP
Even those people who espouse a belief in God still often resist and resent the notion of specifically commanded behaviors. People often want the benefits of having a God for personal requests or crisis interventions, and may use being a “believer” as a way to increase
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 3, 2003
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According to John de Graaf in his book, "Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic," the average American household carried a credit-card debt of $7,654 in the year 2000. Our supermarkets provide us an average choice of 30,000 items, about two and a half times the number of choices available in 1980.
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Contributed by Kim Huffman on Mar 31, 2004
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Faith is like a trapeze. We walk by faith, not sight (2 Cor. 5:7). We learn three things: 1) It takes a leap of faith to let go of one bar and reach for the other one. 2) It can be scary letting go to your security and trusting. 3) You don’t have forever to decide to let go and grab the other bar.
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Contributed by Brian Oberg on Jul 22, 2005
Madonna said, "Money . . . sex . . . food. . . . they’re not what’s going to make us happy. They’re not real. They don’t last. There’s only one thing that lasts, and that’s your soul. And if you don’t work on that, and you don’t pay attention to that, then all the money in the world is not
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
Creative Class: In his book, The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida, Carnegie Mellon University, argues that more than 30% of the American workforce—some 38 million people—now makes up what he calls the “creative class,” in which he includes artists, scientists, architects, designers,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Boomers Volunteer: Boomers have become one of the most important components of U.S. volunteer organizations. The Corporation for National and Community Service reports: There are 65.4 million volunteers in the U.S. While Boomers are about 25% of the adult population over 18, they are 40% of the
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 24, 2009
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SOLZHENITSYN: MEN HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD
In his 1983 acceptance speech for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn recalled the words he heard as a child, when his elders sought to explain the ruinous upheavals in Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 28, 2009
HEAVIEST-EVER NEWBORN
KISARAN, Indonesia – Indonesia’s heaviest-ever newborn drew curious crowds Friday to a hospital where the boy named Akbar — or the "Great" in Arabic — came into the world at a record 19.2 pounds (8.7 kilograms).
Akbar Risuddin was born to a diabetic mother in a 40-minute
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Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
The word ‘love’ conjures up so man different things today. A modern dictionary lists 28 various uses for the word: tender affection, warm attachment, intimate passion, strong predication, & amorous benevolence. Yet not of these are complete to define / describe what the Bible speaks of as a
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Contributed by William Hooper on Jul 12, 2007
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What are you willing to do for $10,000,000? In 1991 James Patterson and Peter Kim, in their book The Day America Told the Truth, reported a survey where that question was asked. Two-thirds of Americans polled would agree to at least one, some to several of the following:
Would abandon their entire
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Baptist
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
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The people in Corinth had some interesting ideas about being single as well. Written from Ephesus during the Apostle Paul’s third missionary journey from 53-57 AD, 1 Corinthians 7 commences the second part or division of this Epistle, or, “the discussion of those points which had been submitted to
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