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  • Professional Golfer Tommy Bolt Has Had The ...

    Contributed by Darren Mccormick on Nov 7, 2006
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    Professional golfer Tommy Bolt has had the reputation for being the angriest golfer to ever play the game. One of the stories told about him is of a time when he giving a group lesson on how to hit a ball out of a sand trap. Tommy called his 11 year old son over and said to him “Show them what ...read more

  • I Will Never Forget How The Holy Spirit Worked In ...

    Contributed by Bruce Willis on Nov 30, 2006
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    I will never forget how the Holy Spirit worked in my life to teach me to depend upon Him for the revelation and illumination of truth to my life. It was in March of 2003 - I had spent a week in special study at Luther Rice Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia. I had been studying about how to live the ...read more

  • When I Think Of The Promises Of God, I'm Reminded ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Montgomery on Jun 9, 2007
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    When I think of the promises of God, I’m reminded of the story of the young man who had a dream to go to America. He scrimped and saved, and did everything in his power to save enough money to buy a ticket on a boat bound for America. The day came when he had precisely the amount of money ...read more

  • Gladyce, A Widow, Attended Church Faithfully ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Gladyce, a widow, attended church faithfully every Sunday. She would get there about 20 minutes early to sit and pray. This was her ritual. Just her and Jesus. She had been doing this for years. Then one Sunday a new family sat behind her. This was disturbing. She said, “Oh, well, they’re visitors ...read more

  • King George And Queen Elizabeth And Then Princess ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Nov 24, 2007
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    King George and Queen Elizabeth and then Princess Elizabeth set the example of being great leaders of and role models for their people by being servants. The Rev. Dr. John C. Maxwell is an honored pastor in the Wesleyan Church Dr. Maxwell and founder of two companies world renowned EQUIP and ...read more

  • In The Bible We Read This: "Let Us Thank God For ...

    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Dec 19, 2007
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    In the Bible we read this: “Let us thank God for his priceless gift” (2 Cor 9:15). Imagine for a moment being invited to a really special birthday party. Perhaps it’s your Head teacher’s birthday, but we won’t ask him how many years he will be celebrating for his next birthday, will we! Or perhaps ...read more

  • Phillip Keller Drew From His Many Years As A ...

    Contributed by Glenn Durham on Apr 14, 2008
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    Phillip Keller drew from his many years as a shepherd to write, A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, a book many Christians find beneficial. In one place he describes “cast” sheep: “This is an old English shepherd’s term for a sheep that has turned over on its back and cannot get up again by itself…. Even ...read more

  • For The First Time In 35 Years, The U.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
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    For the first time in 35 years, the U.S. fertility rate has climbed high enough to sustain a stable population, solidifying the nation's unique status among industrialized countries. The overall fertility rate increased 2% between '05 and '06, nudging the average number of babies being born to each ...read more

  • You May Or May Not Be Familiar With Earl, So For ...

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Jun 28, 2008
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    You may or may not be familiar with Earl, so for those of you who have never watched it, you can find Earl on NBC. He’s been on TV for about 2 years now. In each and every episode he goes through and tries to right some wrong that he had committed earlier in his life. This has led him to do such ...read more

  • The Dumb Things We Do

    Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 1, 2008
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    THE DUMB THINGS WE DO I don't remember how long my wife and I had been dating, but I invited her over, and I was going to cook a meal. I had two other roommates, so I was going to cook for everybody. Somehow, I settled on pizza. I remembered that the first lunch date we ever had was at a pizza ...read more

  • Healing, God's Way

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 26, 2008
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    Healing, God's Way Healing takes time, patience and determination to persevere through the long process of healing. It’s not easy, but it is the reality of the healing process. Personal Illustration: My own experience with the healing process of my right knee. About two years ago I had a total ...read more

  • Decision Without Determination

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 28, 2009
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    DECISION WITHOUT DETERMINATION Some choose and pray a prayer. This is the great heresy of the last hundred years. I made a choice when I was ten. But there is no determination. I have been convinced by the Lord that a decision without determination and effort is absolutely meaningless. In ...read more

  • J.c. Penney Born Again

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
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    J.C. PENNEY BORN AGAIN The late great business man and entrepreneur, James Cash Penney (1875 - 1971), founder of the J.C. Penney stores, in his autobiography entitled "Fifty Years with the Golden Rule," tells of his being in the Battle Creek Sanitarium one night when he thought he was dying. He ...read more

  • In December Of 2004, Judge Michael Higgins, ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 20, 2010
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    In December of 2004, Judge Michael Higgins, presiding at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal here in Australia, found Pastors Daniel Scot and Danny Nalliah guilty of inciting RELIGIOUS HATRED against Victorian Muslims. This was an historic case, the first finding of RELIGIOUS ...read more

  • Holiness Is Developed In Community

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    HOLINESS IS DEVELOPED IN COMMUNITY In the 3rd and 4th Centuries, and even to some extent today, the popular image of holiness was solitude, silence and severity. The really (quote) "holy people" back then were those who lived like hermits, wandering in the desert alone -- fasting, praying and ...read more

  • Dad, Tom And Jerry, And Touched By An Angel

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 17, 2011
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    DAD, TOM AND JERRY, AND TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL When I was growing up, in order to instill a work ethic in me, my dad had several short maxims he repeated many times in my life. He'd tell me, "Son, there's no free lunch." -- In this life, that is so true. He'd also remind me, "Chuck, never forget: ...read more

  • Hymn Story: O Love That Will Not Let Me Go By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2011
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    HYMN STORY: O LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET ME GO BY GEORGE MATHESON George Matheson was only fifteen when he was told that he was losing what little eyesight he had. Instead of giving up, Matheson immediately continued with his plans to enroll in the University of Glasgow, and his determination lead to ...read more

  • White As Snow  PRO

    Contributed by Jason Bonnicksen on May 15, 2011
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    WHITE AS SNOW Ash Wednesday — it’s kind of a solemn day. It’s the start of Lent —a word which means “spring” in German. But more than this, it’s the time each year when we intently focus on the path Christ Jesus laid out for us to follow — to be true to his word, true to his calling, and ...read more

  • Loving Neighbour

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Feb 29, 2016
     | 3,904 views

    A Little Pointer on Keeping a Balance Here’s a little bonus tip that I’ve found helpful to keep my wits about me as I live next to these wild Vikings we call sinners, pagans, and wacko unbelievers while keeping my vertical relationship with God strong. It’s called “whimsical holiness,” which is ...read more

  • Pardoned Fugitive

    Contributed by Roger Byrd on Jul 17, 2021
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    He was an unlikely criminal. In the difficult days after World War I, many veterans like Robert Elliot Burns had taken to “riding the rails” in search of work. A native of New Jersey, Burns had found the times very trying so when a friend told him of a job, he immediately agreed. The problem was ...read more