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  • If Something Terrible Happens To My Grandparents ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    If something terrible happens to my grandparents would it affect me? If God told my great, great, great, great, great, great, (x2000 {just a random number}) grandparents NOT to get in the car and go down a certain road because the bridge was out – and they did it anyway – and died. Would it affect ...read more

  • A Story Is Told Of Two Men Who Worked In The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wayne Major on Apr 5, 2001
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    A story is told of two men who worked in the audit department of a large bank. They made an overnight trip to a distant branch of the bank, and were dining in a local restaurant. The chief auditor told the other man, “First we’ll hit the tellers, and then get the vault.” They arrived at the bank ...read more

  • Colson's Change  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jul 24, 2003
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    Colson’s Change In July of 1984 Charles Colson was speaking at a Baptist gathering. He told of his change from being an Episcopalian to becoming a Baptist. He had considered a change dictated by his study of Scripture and his developing personal convictions. But he did not want his change to be ...read more

  • An Ethics Book From 1973 Cites "Playboy" ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 13, 2006
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    an ethics book from 1973 cites “Playboy” magazine. A woman from Wichita had written in to “Playboy” to get the opinion of its readers on mate swapping. So, “Playboy” published her question as a poll. She asked, “When both partners consent, is adultery immoral?” One Dion O’Glass of New York ...read more

  • Acts 20:13 We Went On Ahead To The Ship And ...

    Contributed by Steven Cannon on Jan 15, 2007
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    Acts 20:13 We went on ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we were going to take Paul aboard. He had made this arrangement because he was going there on foot. Acts 20:14 When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene. Acts 20:15 The next day we set sail from there ...read more

  • Price Saving Beats Time Saving By 3-To-1 For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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    Price Saving Beats Time Saving by 3-to-1 for women shoppers finds ShopSmart Opinion Poll. 76% of American women enjoy shopping, but 33% say the most stressful part is waiting in check out lines, followed by 29% stressed by interacting with salespeople. The average woman spends 385 hours annually ...read more

  • John Ortberg Said He Recently Saw An Actual, ...

    Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 25, 2009
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    John Ortberg said He recently saw an actual, academic, peer-reviewed journal called Journal of Happiness Studies. "Positive psychology" is the big new trend looking for how people can be happy. One theme that keeps cropping up is the happiness paradox which says: "the more directly one aims to ...read more

  • Shannon Of Cincinnati Bible College In Ohio. ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 6, 2010
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    Shannon of Cincinnati Bible College in Ohio. “In Stockholm, Sweden, a lady was pinned beneath a streetcar. She was seriously injured and bleeding badly. A crowd collected. They tried to move the streetcar, but it was too heavy. There was nothing to do but wait for the heavy equipment to come. She ...read more

  • Old-School Church Discipline

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    OLD-SCHOOL CHURCH DISCIPLINE The Amish practice shunning – ignoring, turning away from, avoiding. When a person is disciplined by the community, relationships are severed between parents and children, or brother and sister, or even husbands and wives. Because the Amish are so isolated from those ...read more

  • Evading The "R" Word

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2011
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    EVADING THE "R" WORD Jimmy had trouble pronouncing the letter "R" so his teacher gave him a sentence to practice at home: "Robert gave Richard a rap in the rib for roasting the rabbit so rare." Some days later the teacher asked him to say the sentence for her. Jimmy rattled it off like this. "Bob ...read more

  • Quotations On Humility

    Contributed by Billy Nale on Apr 20, 2011
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    QUOTATIONS ON HUMILITY "I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before ...read more

  • Dr. Lewis Smedes, Wrote About What Forgiveness ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Dr. Lewis Smedes, wrote about what forgiveness is not. • When you forgive a person, this does not mean you are immediately healed. • When you forgive a person, this does not mean you are going to be buddy/buddy. • When we forgive a person, this does not mean we surrender the right to restitution ...read more

  • Sometimes The Cup Of Iniquity Is Full And The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Sometimes the cup of iniquity is full and the people are ripe for judgment. In such a case it may happen as it did in the flourishing and extraordinarily beautiful city of Messina, Sicily, the third largest city in Italy. In the early morning of December 28, 1908, the city was almost entirely ...read more

  • In His Book "God In My Corner" George Foreman Has ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 13, 2008
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    In his book “God in my corner” George Foreman has a chapter entitled “What will people think of Me?” In the chapter his shares his struggle with this common struggle for Christians. He said he wasn’t afraid to step in the ring with toughest boxers in the world Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and Ken ...read more

  • Appetite Killers

    Contributed by Richard Tow on Mar 27, 2023
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    If we want our appetite for righteousness to grow, we must avoid appetite killers. This is true in the natural. Every parent knows that kids who eat too much candy will not have an appetite for the healthy food at dinner time. The same is true with our spiritual appetite. If we snack on the things ...read more

  • What Comes Out Of Your Mouth  PRO

    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Apr 10, 2011
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    WHAT COMES OUT OF YOUR MOUTH How carefully do you monitor what goes into your mouth, compared to what comes out of it? For example, do you follow a low-fat diet? Do you obsessively track the grams of fat going into your body? Do you watch the number of calories that you consume? Do you avoid ...read more

  • Quote: "What Is It To Believe In Him? It Is ...

    Contributed by N A on Aug 3, 2007
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    QUOTE: “What is it to believe in Him? It is not merely to say, “He is God and the Savior,” but to trust Him wholly and entirely and take Him for all your salvation from this time forth and forever as your Lord, your Master, your all… Remember that the Lord Jesus came to take away sin in three ...read more

  • Follow Me

    Contributed by Gregory Artz on Feb 17, 2023
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    Follow Me The United States Army is one of the most powerful forces in the world. The strongest and most trained soldiers in all the world. Each one is a valuable asset in order to have victory over an enemy. Therefore, training requires strict discipline and the ability to follow orders of the ...read more

  • In "Share Jesus Without Fear", Bill Fay Speaks ...

    Contributed by Robbie Peay on Apr 19, 2004
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    In “Share Jesus Without Fear”, Bill Fay speaks very bluntly about the sin of silence. He states that believers sin when they remain silent and do not share Jesus with others. He says that the sin of silence is a deadly sin and he’s right. We erroneously think that by remaining silent about our ...read more

  • Actually My Wife Laurel Found Something At ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Apr 13, 2005
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    Actually my wife Laurel found something at Hastings the other day that might be able to help us out: "Its called "Wash Away Your Sins - Soul Saver Pack"... "For liars, cheaters, and wrong-doers."  "It says its Bishop tested" and "Cardinal approved". Its contents are two bottles and an instruction ...read more