Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
As we prepare for communion this morning, let us do so by confessing to God that we have not always looked at others with eyes of forgiveness but unforgiveness, not always with eyes of hope and promise but fear and gloom, and not
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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John Stott – “Peter would prepare the church, not simply to endure persecution, but to find in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
But, when I was preparing my studies of this story, I came across a saying of one of the older preachers, who observed that, although little could be said for this blind man, there was this one thing: he was at least in a place where Jesus was likely to go. He was by the gate leading into the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 17, 2003
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BEING A BIG PERSON
Thomas Watson was the founder of IBM and he could have been talking about Jesus when he said “Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous -- not just to some people in some circumstances -- but to everyone all the time.”
SOURCE: Dean
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2004
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IT’S HARD BEING...
Pastor Ben Patterson, tells the following story:
My 5-year-old niece, Olivia, and her best friend, Claire, were participating in a nativity play at school. Claire was playing Mary, and Olivia was an angel. Before the show, a young boy was going around the dressing room
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 13, 2012
THE PROBLEM WITH BEING DECEASED
ABC News reported a strange story this week:
Arthur Livingston, of Prosperity, S.C., may feel prosperous and alive, but his credit report says, "File not scored because subject is deceased." That's because Livingston's bank, Bank of America, has been reporting him
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Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 1, 2012
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BE PREPARED
A student is taking a class in ornithology, the study of birds, and it’s a very difficult class with a very ornery professor. He walks in for the final, and he thinks he’s studied up for it, but there’s no paper and pencil questions, no little blue books. He looks above the chalkboard
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Contributed by Kent Lenard on Aug 31, 2003
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Jerry Rice works day in and day out to prepare for football unlike any other player in the NFL.
The story of his ability to push himself started when he was in high school. The Coach of B.L. Moor High School, Charles Davis, had his players run twenty times up a forty-yard hill. On a particularly
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Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Oct 10, 2005
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To prepare our children for life we must teach them choices have consequences everywhere. If we really care about them and want what is best we will prepare them for life by controlling and disciplining them. Bill Gates, speaking at a graduation ceremony gave some life rules
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