Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 10, 2001
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What really makes people satisfied with their lives? Amazingly, the secret may lie in a person’s ability to handle life’s blows without blame or bitterness. These are the conclusions of a study of 173 men who have been followed since they graduated from Harvard University in the early 1940s. The
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2003
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The young salesman was disappointed about losing a big sale, and as he talked with his sales manager he lamented, "I guess it just proves you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink." The manager replied, "Son, take my advice: your job is not to make him drink. Your job is to make
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Apr 20, 2003
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An Indian Christian, Sandhu Singh, made a perceptive statement when he said, "One day I was sitting on the banks of a river. I took from the water a round stone and I broke it. Inside it was perfectly dry. That stone had been lying in the water for a long time but the water had not penetrated
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Boardman reminds us that commitment to the will of the Lord does require action on our part.
“True commitment will mean not only turning to something, but also turning from something, just as Paul commended the Thessalonians for turning “to God from idols to serve the living and true God” (1 Thes.
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on May 21, 2004
What really makes people satisfied with their lives? Amazingly, the secret may lie in a person’s ability to handle life’s blows without blame or bitterness. These are the conclusions of a study of 173 men who have been followed since they graduated from Harvard University in the early 1940s. The
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If we could journey through the halls of hell and could talk to its inhabitants, we would find all kinds of people there: thieves, adulterers, liars, murderers, good people, moral people, respectable people¡ people who always obeyed the law. What are they doing there? Well, if we would ask them,
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Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 12, 2005
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If you thought Christian martyrdom was merely a part of history, listen to this statistic: more Christians have been killed for their faith in this century alone than in the previous nineteen centuries combined. According to Paul Marshall, author of Their Blood Cries Out, in more than 60 countries
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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Ingratitude denotes spiritual immaturity. Infants do not always appreciate what parents do for them. They have short memories. Their concern is not what you did for me yesterday, but what are you doing for me today. The past is meaningless and so is the future. They live for the present. Those who
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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National Religious Broadcasters recently passed a resolution pledging the association’s family to consider that biblical truth is no longer part of the nation’s foundation and that “evil in high places” wants to establish a foundation based on humanism and situational ethics. It calls NRB members
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
Household Restructure: For the first time in U.S. history, the traditional family―a married couple with kids at home―comprises less than 25% of U.S. households. Non-family households are nearly 1/3 of the total, a 50% increase since ’70. Multigenerational homes, with 3 or more
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Contributed by John Harvey on Feb 23, 2006
In his memoir of his experience in a Nazi concentration camp, Elie Wiesel notes that before his village was ever emptied of the Jewish settlers, a poor man, Moshe the Beadle, who had been deported on some of the first trains of Jews out of the Hungarian village and had seen first hand the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God. Yet it is clear that the unbelief which he so bitterly deplored was not an intellectual persuasion of God’s non-existence. Those whom he rebuked for their lack of faith were not men who
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