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  • Mary Crowley Lived In The 1930s – The Time Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Mary Crowley lived in the 1930s – the time of the Great Depression. Her husband left her with a young daughter to raise. Nobody told Mary she couldn’t get a job during the Depression, so she went out and got one. In time she founded a very successful company called Home Interiors and Gifts, and ...read more

  • In His Took Elton Trueblood Quotes A Letter From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In his took Elton Trueblood quotes a letter from a school girl who probes the depth of her soul. She writes, "I’ve been thinking much this year about the importance of caring, of the passion of life. I’ve often realized that it takes courage to care. Caring is dangerous. It leaves you open to hurt ...read more

  • What Has Caused People To Not Have A Biblical ...

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
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    What has caused people to not have a Biblical worldview and to edit the Ten Commandments to please one’s self? Maybe it’s not just the preacher you listen to. A study of 104 leading television writers and executives conducted by the center for media and public affairs found that Hollywood’s ...read more

  • I Am Reminded Of The Guy Who Shows Up At ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 11, 2008
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    I am reminded of the guy who shows up at heaven’s gates. Peter asks him, “Did you do anything self-sacrificing or noteworthy to show that you loved God and loved others.” “Well,” he replied, “There was one thing. I saw an old lady that was being taunted and ridiculed and physically abused by a ...read more

  • When A Dangerous Blizzard Hit Colorado Springs ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 26, 2008
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    When a dangerous blizzard hit Colorado Springs in late October 2006, residents had plenty of warning. Weather forecasters began predicting the storm 36 hours before it arrived. On a warm, sunny afternoon people swarmed into grocery stores to buy supplies, while tire shops worked overtime to meet ...read more

  • I Like The Story Of The Young Man Whose Habit Of ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
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    I like the story of the young man whose habit of criticizing backfired on him. One evening, while waiting for a bus, he was standing with a crowd of people looking in the window of a taxidermist shop. In the center of the window was a large owl that attracted the attention of all who passed by. ...read more

  • William Gladstone, In Announcing The Death Of ...

    Contributed by Brien Sims on Jun 17, 2008
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    William Gladstone, in announcing the death of Princess Alice to the House of Commons, told a touching story. The little daughter of the Princess was seriously ill with diphtheria. The doctors told the princess not to kiss her little daughter and endanger her life by breathing the child’s breath. ...read more

  • Ten Commandments: Statutes Of Liberty  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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    TEN COMMANDMENTS: STATUTES OF LIBERTY In The Gospel and the American Dream, historian Bruce Shelley writes, "In one hand Liberty holds the torch of freedom and in the other the tablet of law. The torch challenges the forces of darkness and tyranny. The tablet of law reminds us that liberty ...read more

  • What Is Christmas Is Really About? I Would Say It ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 15, 2008
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    What is Christmas is really about? I would say it is not about simply being filled with joy and singing and family and relationships as the Whos seem to think Christmas is about. In fact Christmas is about a person: Jesus. It is about the one who was born as an outcast. His mother and father ...read more

  • Street Clothes

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    STREET CLOTHES On March 5, 1994, Deputy Sheriff Lloyd Prescott was teaching a class for police officers in the Salt Lake City Library. As he stepped into the hallway he noticed a gunman herding 18 hostages into the next room. With a flash of insight, Prescott (dressed in street clothes) joined the ...read more

  • Under Or Above ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 31, 2009
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    Under Or Above Circumstances There is a story of a lady who was severely depressed by a series of disheartening events. When asked how she was weathering the storm of adversity, she answered, “Quite well, under the circumstances.” “Sister,” he replied kindly yet firmly, “you’ll never make it that ...read more

  • An Afflicted Life Can Save

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jul 22, 2009
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    AN AFFLICTED LIFE CAN SAVE Or consider the young lady suffering with terminal cancer. It’s a painful and hopeless disease. But instead of complaints and self-pity, she openly talked about her hope of eternal life in Jesus, about the inheritance in heaven Jesus won for her by dying on the cross, ...read more

  • Rearranging Ashes

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2010
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    Rearranging Ashes The story is told of an eastern ascetic holy man who covered himself with ashes as a sign of humility and regularly sat on a prominent street corner of his city. When tourists asked permission to take his picture, the mystic would rearrange his ashes to give the best image of ...read more

  • Marriage Insight

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Nov 15, 2021
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    Destructive to marriage is the self fulfillment ethic that assumes marriage and the family are primarily institutions of personal fulfillment, necessary for us to become whole or happy. The assumption is that there is someone just right for us to marry and that if we look closely enough we will ...read more

  • Biblical Change  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    Biblical Change "Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your ...read more

  • The Book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" Speaks Of The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Weber on Mar 14, 2006
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    The Book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" speaks of the destruction of early Christian texts during the persecutions of the emperor Diocletion of 303 A.D., after which it continues: “As a result Christian documents—especially in Rome—all but vanished. When Constantine commissioned new versions of these ...read more

  • The Devastating Power Of Criticism

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 25, 2014
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    "Go where you’re celebrated, not where you’re tolerated." - Author Unknown I know a number of people whose lives have been profoundly affected by the criticism of others. For some, it was being cruelly taunted at school by their peers, for others, a close family member who criticized or ...read more

  • When "Old Blue Eye's" Died In May 1998 At The ...  PRO

    Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 27, 2004
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    >>When “Old Blue Eye’s” died in May 1998 at the age of 82 everyone agreed: There will never be another Sinatra. Sinatra had an amazing career; he even topped Elvis! He holds the record of 40 consecutive years with a song on the billboard charts. One of those chart topping songs was “I Did It My ...read more

  • Did You Know That...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 25, 2005
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    Did you know that... The color in a butterfly’s wings does not come from pigment. The color is produced prism-like by light reflected by their transparent wing scales. Stranger yet, no moth or butterfly eats solid food (though some butterflies drink nectar); some can not even take in ...read more

  • Fruit Of The Spirit  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jul 6, 2008
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    FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT The fruit is singular, not plural. The most common teaching is that there are nine fruits of the Spirit. But that’s not the case. It’s one “fruit,” and that fruit has those characteristics. For instance, take an apple. It’s one apple, but it has many characteristics: red, ...read more