Contributed by John Weeks on Dec 9, 2006
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The hope of Christ was made evident to me several years ago when the place I was working began having financial troubles due to a change in ownership. I went three months without a paycheck before the place finally folded and then I went another several months before getting a job.
In that time,
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Contributed by T D on Dec 28, 2010
TWO KINDS OF GIVING
I have witnessed in my years of ministry people come to church and when they do not like a decision of the leadership or the minister, they decide to stop giving as a protest or decide to shift their giving to missions in order to inflict pain on the ministry of the church.
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jul 12, 2023
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A busy young father came home late from work and his two young daughters ran to the car to meet him. The oldest daughter got their first and jumped into Daddy's arms telling him how much she loved him while the youngest watched.
As they walked into the house, the oldest daughter looked back
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 4, 2004
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It is interesting that Time magazine in 1971 noted that labor experts were predicting that by the new millennia we would be on a national 4 day work week and have an abundance of leisure time. Those projections have not come true, in fact exactly the opposite has happened. According to a
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 13, 2007
Bad Granny & Gramps.
I know grandparents who promised their grandchildren the same thing,
Finish high school and we will pay for your college;
And they could, they were very, very, well off.
The grandparents picked the potential schools for each of the three children;
Stanford, Berkley,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 28, 2001
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The average person has more than two hundred negative thoughts a day-worries, jealousies, insecurities, cravings for forbidden things, etc. Depressed people have as many as six hundred. You can’t eliminate all the troublesome things that go through your mind, but you can
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SURVIVORMAN AND ESAU
I love to watch things like Survivorman - he goes all over the world and survives in the harshest enviornments.
But he is like Esau! Self-sufficient, I have never seen him bow his head in prayer and ask God for help; I
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
Thomas Aquinas the famous medieval theologian once wrote:
The Lord’s Prayer is the most perfect of prayers... In it we ask, not only for all the things we can rightly desire, but also in the sequence that they should be desired. This prayer not only teaches us to ask for
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There was a young man who grew up in the backwoods and as his years lengthened, he was sent to school. At first, school was fun to him. He enjoyed being around those children his own age and found great excitement on the playground. Little by little all of this soon was to change.
This young
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Contributed by Jack Kale on Sep 30, 2017
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Holding Up the Bridge
By now you have probably noticed the construction of the new bridge spanning the gap between Pensacola and Gulf Breeze. Each week new additions to the construction have caught my eye as I’ve driven those three miles over the bay. Tug boats, barges, cranes, heavy equipment,
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Contributed by Andrew Schroer on Mar 12, 2001
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We live in a very stress-filled world. In fact, experts say that 43% – almost half of all adults – suffer adverse health affects due to stress. One million workers here in the United States are
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Lutheran
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