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  • To Break Our Own Record, To Outstrip Yesterdays ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "To break our own record, to outstrip yesterdays by todays, to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could, to whip the tempter inside and out as we never whipped him before, to give as we never have given, to do our work with more ...read more

  • Love For Our Neighbor

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
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    Love for Our Neighbor John Vianney, 18th Century Pastor, is quoted as saying, “Love for our neighbor consists of three things: to desire the greater good of everyone; to do what good we can when we can; to bear, excuse, and hide other’s faults. The kind of love that Jesus is ...read more

  • Growing Up In Middle Georgia I Would Help Pick ...  PRO

    Contributed by Howard Bagley on Apr 6, 2002
    based on 57 ratings
     | 2,623 views

    Growing up in middle Georgia I would help pick peaches during the summer to make a little spending money. And it was during that time that I learned the importance of "a time to every purpose under heaven". While working for this elderly gentleman, whom I will call Grif, He wanted to show me how to ...read more

  • Lewis Smedes, Professor Of Theology And Ethics At ...  PRO

    Contributed by Aaron Jones on Mar 5, 2001
    based on 129 ratings
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    Lewis Smedes, professor of theology and ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary was asked this very question about suicide in the July 2000 issue of Christianity Today. He summarized his thoughts by writing, "I believe that, as Christians, we should worry less about whether Christians who have ...read more

  • For Example, I Know A Young Lady, Sixty Years Of ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jan 27, 2007
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    For example, I know a young lady, sixty years of age, who was diagnosed with cancer 4 months ago. This was a shock to her at first, but then her attitude was upbeat. She did what the doctor told her to do. She took her chemo treatments. During this time, there was a smile on her face and ...read more

  • Picking Up The Large Bails Of Hay And Carrying ...

    Contributed by Deborah Guptill on Jun 11, 2007
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    Picking up the large bails of hay and carrying them to the horse pasture was not the easiest job. I could only carry one bail at a time, my friends who worked at the barn however were able to carry one in each hand and then toss them with ease once in the pasture. I would struggle under the weight ...read more

  • Brennan Manning Who Is One Of My Favorite ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Brennan Manning who is one of my favorite authors describes it like this. He is a recovering alcoholic and he said, no matter how long I am sober, no matter what I do I will always be a recovering alcoholic. I will always lay that card down on the table, my past does not change. He says, when we ...read more

  • Several Years Ago, The Wall Street Journal ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Several years ago, the Wall Street Journal carried a story about Sally, an overly conscientious youngster who made herself miserable over the smallest failures and setbacks. Early one fall, while the leaves were still on the trees, there was an exceptionally heavy snowstorm. Sally’s grandfather ...read more

  • I'm Free

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I’M FREE Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free. I’m following the path God laid for me. I could not stay another day, To laugh, to love, or to play. I know my parting has left a void, You must fill it with joy. A laugh, or perhaps a kiss. Ah yes, these things I too will miss. Be not burdened ...read more

  • Relax And Lower Your Branches  PRO

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Nov 2, 2011
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     | 2,102 views

    RELAX AND LOWER YOUR BRANCHES Several years ago, the Wall Street Journal carried a story about Sally, an overly conscientious youngster who made herself miserable over the smallest failures and setbacks. Early one fall, while the leaves were still on the trees, there was an exceptionally heavy ...read more

  • Prognosis Not Good  PRO

    Contributed by Rev Dr Randall M Deal Sr on Mar 16, 2008
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    PROGNOSIS NOT GOOD A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor’s office. After the checkup, the doctor took the wife aside and said, "if you don’t do the following, your husband will surely die." 1. "Each morning fix him a healthy breakfast and send him off to work in a good mood." 2."At lunch ...read more

  • Small Things Add Up. They Fill Spaces In Our ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 7, 2008
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    Small things add up. They fill spaces in our lives that tend to squeeze out the more important things. Sand can bury a car, a house, or a person. Grains of sand are very small but when they are combined with a large number of other grains of sand, it is a force to be reckoned with. Sand also ...read more

  • The Late Great Irish Anglican Archbishop Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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    The late great Irish Anglican archbishop of Dublin and poet, Richard Chenevix Trench (1807 - 1886), wrote: "Lord, what a change within us one short hour Spent in Thy presence will avail to make! What heavy burdens from our bosoms take! What parched grounds refresh as with a shower! We kneel, and ...read more

  • Walter Payton Played 13 Seasons Of Football For ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jul 1, 2006
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    Walter Payton played 13 seasons of football for the Chicago Bears. His weight-training regimen in the off-season became legendary. Besides lifting, his daily routine included runs along the obstacles near the Pearl River in Mississippi. He ran through "The Sand" (65 yards ...read more

  • I Heard About A Little Girl. One Night Her ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Aug 30, 2007
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    I heard about a little girl. One night her mother said, "Did you say your prayers?" She said, "Yes, I did, but I didn’t say those same old things to God we always say every night. I told Him the story of the ...read more

  • If It Don't Rain  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Oct 1, 2007
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    If It Don’t Rain I would climb the highest mountain Swim the deepest ocean too I would crawl the hottest desert I’d do anything for you I would leap the tallest building I’d bear any trial or pain There’s no ...read more

  • Christ And The Spirit

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Jan 18, 2010
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    CHRIST AND THE SPIRIT Luke's Gospel places an huge emphasis on the Holy Spirit. As the the third century Bible teacher St. Origen puts it: "Christ is born; the Spirit is his forerunner. Christ is baptised; the Spirit bears him witness. Christ is tempted; the Spirit leads him ...read more

  • Gabrielle Carey Is An Australian Author Most ...

    Contributed by W F on Oct 31, 2004
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    Gabrielle Carey is an Australian author most widely known for the movie Puberty Blues, based upon the book of the same title. In a later book, In My Father’s House Carey relates an incident that led to her conversion to Christ. Carey was raised in an atheist humanist household. Her father was a ...read more

  • Gary Larson, The Artist Responsible For The Far ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 5, 2008
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    Gary Larson, the artist responsible for the Far Side cartoons that used to appear in the Sunday comics Had a knack for making us realize the obvious In one particular cartoon There were a group of scientists gathered around another scientist The one is the middle was normal looking But the others ...read more

  • The Lion Was Proud Of His Mastery Of The Animal ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bart Leger on Mar 15, 2001
    based on 135 ratings
     | 7,891 views

    The lion was proud of his mastery of the animal kingdom. One day he decided to make sure all the other animals knew he was the king of the jungle. He was so confident that he by-passed the smaller animals and went straight to the bear. "Who is the king of the jungle?" the lion asked. The bear ...read more