Contributed by Maurice Schaus on Feb 11, 2008
There’s a scene in the movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone where the main character, Harry Potter, encounters an enchanted mirror, the mirror of Erised.
Earlier in the book we learned that Harry’s parents died when he was only a baby, and he was raised by his Aunt Petunia and Uncle
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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An industrial titan remembered his farm boyhood. It was his chore to go to the barn in the dark to secure the farm animals before the family bedtime. He dreaded what lurked in the shadows on the way to the distant barn. His father gave him unforgettable advice.
The lantern from the farmhouse would
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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Peace isn't just a truce. General McArthur said "A truce just says you don’t shoot for awhile. Peace comes when the truth is known, the issue is settled, & the parties embrace each other."
Peacemakers don’t just try to stop conflict. They’re doing something far more meaningful, something healing
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 5, 2002
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When you Read a book you have a desire to ask the author what he meant. The Holy Spirit, the Author of the Bible, is in your heart. When you’re studying the Scriptures and you get into something you don’t understand, you’ve got the privilege of talking to the Author and asking the Holy Spirit to
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Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 12, 2004
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A dear lady was asked what she used to make her complexion so beautiful. Her answer: “Its all in the make-up.”
- for my lips I use truth
- For my voice I use kindness
- For my eyes, I use compassion
- For my hands I use charity
- For my figure, I
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 22, 2005
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A common phrase used in the world of healing is, “time heals all wounds.” I have found this to be more false than true. As a pastor, I talk regularly with people who are still carrying hurts from 30 or 40 years ago. The real truth is, time often makes things worse. Wounds that are left untended
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Hugh Laing on Feb 17, 2010
When the Body of Christ is rich and prosperous...she very seldom...I want say never...but very seldom has Biblical REVIVAL...but she often does when she's poor...many times the Children of Israel found this out.
But this truth does exist beloved...PRAYER IS THE LANGUAGE OF
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Baptist
Contributed by Perry Greene on Nov 14, 2012
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WHO FLATTERS THE KING
Francois Fenelon was the court clergy for King Louis XIV of France in the 17th century. One Sunday when the king and his attendants arrived at the chapel for the regular service, no one else was there but the preacher. King Louis demanded, "What does this mean?"
Fenelon
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Peter Bines on Jan 22, 2008
On the news recently was the story of a great sandstorm blowing over Arizona in the US and the city of Phoenix was put under warning. A TV camera in a helicopter high above showed an immense wall of dust and sand rolling across the Phoenix valley smothering everything. It reduced road visibility to
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 3, 2008
When I was in business school, I had a very wise and at the same time a very unsettling professor. One day he said, “You will hear the truth you are willing to hear.” What he meant was that as a manager, if you intimidated the people working with and for you, they would avoid telling you what you
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Michael West on Oct 2, 2008
He is our desperate need: 2 Peter 1:3-4
Without Him, we are lost. Without Him, we are like a toy that needs batteries…
We were born into this world blind to the truth of God—
I Corinthians 2:14. Without Him, we would have remained full of corruption. With Him, we now
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 23, 2003
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SPIRITUAL ANARCHY
In his [Barna’s] new volume he flatly states that moral anarchy has arrived and rules our culture today. The argument hinges on a substantial amount of attitudinal and behavioral evidence: record bankruptcy levels, frivolous lawsuits, the rapid growth of the pornography industry,
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 24, 2003
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On the wall beside my desk I have a 1996 poster size Tim Horton’s Coffee calendar, which I took and had dry mounted, so it would last forever. The picture above the months shows a father wearing a goalie stick and gloves guarding a hockey net that stands in front of the garage door of the family
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Mennonite
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2004
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JUST HANG ON TIGHT
A. J. Gordon, one of the founders of Gordon Conwell Divinity School, told of being out walking and looking across a field at a house. There beside the house was what looked like a man pumping furiously at on of those hand pumps. As Gordon watched, the man continued to pump at a
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Contributed by Tom Lovorn on Jul 26, 2004
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Pornography now nets over $40 billion a year selling 400 porno magazines openly.
The 3rd largest grossing industry in the US is illegal drug sales.
15 million alcoholics cause over half of our traffic deaths, and that number increases by 1500 every day.
Shoplifting losses net over $30 billion a
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Baptist
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