Contributed by Dale Harlow on Jun 19, 2003
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I know you have heard the phrase “remember the Alamo.” It is a story that illustrates what we, as men are all about. 187 men against the Mexican army of over 6000. They were extraordinary men, but they knew they couldn’t win with those odds. They had sent out pleas for help, but they had gone
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Contributed by Ted Sutherland on May 29, 2001
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Erle Stanley Gardner tells about his early days as a writer of Western stories:
“When a writer is writing at three cents a word, he is painfully conscious of the number of words. In fact, when I was typing my own stories. I had an adding machine device connected to the space bar of my typewriter,
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jan 9, 2012
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YOU HAVE VALUE
I have a here a $20 bill -- how much is it worth? (WHO WANTS IT?)
What if I tear it?
What if I crumple it up?
What if I throw it on the floor and stomp on it?
Why?
Because it's still a $20 bill.
It has intrinsic value that makes it worth $20.
But WHY is it worth $20?
Is the
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Contributed by Clint Meade on Jun 3, 2007
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A bar of steel is worth just a few dollars.
When it is forged into a set of wrenches, it is worth approximately $100.
If that same bar of steel is made into many needles, it can be worth several hundred dollars.
If it is made into fine surgical instruments, it is worth thousands of dollars.
If
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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My dear friend Maureen Smith Grable conveys this truth very well in her poem “Doing Battle on Our Knees.”
"Many warriors have gone to battle
riding mounted, prancing steeds
But the Christian goes to battle
when he falls upon his knees.
The greatest warfare will take place
when the Christian kneels
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Adam and Eve were living the kind of life people can only dream about…
I think that’s the kind of dream that makes a show like “Deal or No Deal” so popular. (In case you haven’t seen it, the TV show has 26 suitcases up on stage … and the Contestant must choose the ONE they think is worth a million
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Text: 2 Chronicles 25:7, KJV: But there came a man of God (ID unknown) to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
2 Chron. 25:9: And Amaziah said to the man of God (identity unknown), But what shall we
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Contributed by Sam Higgs on Sep 29, 2011
CALL TO WAR
Have you ever heard the "trumpet" call to do battle in our culture? On every side we are bombarded with things and teachings that are anti-God. There is the lasciviousness where "free-sex" reigns as supreme. It is the Christian’s God ordained duty to confront this sin against God
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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John Williams of J.C. Williams Group, the 3rd largest consulting firm in the world, delivered some revealing and enlightening observations on the changing face of retail at a recent CBA gathering. These changes reach beyond retail to virtually every organization in America. They are:
· Time
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