BUECHNER'S UNIQUE LOOK AT FORGIVENESS
Frederick Buechner is a Presbyterian minister and an author, and he has delightful little book called The Alphabet of Grace. It is somewhat like a dictionary of terms that people of faith commonly use, only Mr. Buechner offers some very uncommon reflections on
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 1, 2010
A Leader Is…
Peter Drucker, perhaps the most noted authority on leadership in the 20th century, says:
A leader is one who has followers. An effective leader is not someone who is loved or admired. He is someone whose followers do the right thing. Popularity is not leadership, results are. Leaders
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Jan 10, 2012
TRUTH
One of the most telling examples is our view of truth. In the 1960s, 65 percent of Americans said they believed the Bible is true; today that figure has dropped to 32 percent. Even more dramatically, today 67 percent of all Americans deny that there's any such thing as truth. Seventy percent
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 2, 2013
One authority writes: "For example, ever wonder why retail clothing stores have those helpful bags and baskets for gathering all your potential purchases? Retailers know that once you have held an item in your hand, you’re psychologically tied to it and you don’t want to give the item up. The
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Contributed by Mark Perryman on May 10, 2006
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This past January the pastors were at a retreat in Duluth and the speaker told of a missionary friend who was trying to reach this group of people in Mexico.
They had a difficult time because these villagers had what he phrased “a scarcity mentality.” The missionary said their belief affected
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2001
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It is a testimony to our self-centeredness that we identify ourselves with Job. We are not like him; we are represented by his friends, his family, his enemies. The lesson of Job is not so much about bad things happening to good people
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We don’t want to do things that make the devil glad, makes the Holy Spirit sad, or dooms our brother or sister to feeling bad. Rather, we want to make the devil run, magnify the Son, and learn
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Nov 27, 2007
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C. S. Lewis, said,
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 24, 2008
Some say fish have a six second memory. So, when one fish gets caught on a hook, only six seconds later, all his fish friends are ready to get hooked again. People are like that. They see
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Darrell Jones on Feb 21, 2003
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A fellow I met in Fredericktown Mo. said to me concerning the use of Marijuana. "Marijuana was made by God, so it must be alright to smoke it." I told him, "God also made rattlesnakes, I sure would
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Paul W. Powell, the former President of the Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist Convention once said…
“Pride is so subtle that if we aren’t careful we’ll be proud of our humility.” He went on to say when this
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The man who does not at least propose to himself to be better this year than he was last must be either very good or very bad indeed And only to propose to be better is somethingfor there is no such thing as a stationary point in human endeavors; he who
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 18, 2009
A few years back Pepper Rodgers was in the middle of a terrible season as football coach at UCLA. It even got so bad that it upset his home life. He recalls, "My dog was my only friend. I told my wife
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 12, 2013
"Bad men or devils would not have written the Bible for it condemns them and their work. Good men and angels could not have written it, for in saying that it was from God when it was their own invention, they would have been guilty of a falsehood and could
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 21, 2001
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Maybe you heard about a guy named John who had a really horrible memory. One day John ran into a friend whom he had not seen in a long time. He greeted him & said, “Bill, do you remember what a bad memory I had?” Bill answered, “Yes, I certainly do.” “Well, it’s not bad any more. I went to a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2002
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AND I AM ONE OF THEM
In the third century St. Cyprian wrote to a friend named Donatus,
"This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden under the shadow of these vines. But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out over the wide lands, you know very well what I
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