Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Annie Armstrong was called indefatigable. She never tired of serving God and serving People. In 1893 because of her belief in the powerful hand of God to change lives and our world she wrote over 18,000 letters many by hand.
She was the driving force in founding the lottie Moon Christmas offering,
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 27, 2008
According to research done by George Barna, 75% of Christians believe the Bible teaches that God helps those who help themselves. It doesn’t. More than ½ of the people describing themselves as Christians believe that Satan is not a living entity, but just symbolic: and that a person can earn his
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Baptist
Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jul 12, 2008
Several years ago a young Frenchman captured the attention of the world by walking a tightrope between the towers of New York’s World Trade Center (1350 feet high). A few months later, however, while practicing on a relatively low wire in St. Petersburg, Florida, he fell 30 feet and was injured. As
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 26, 2003
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Lynn Anderson, in "They Smell Like Sheep," relates this story: “Several years ago in Palestine, Carolyn and I rode a tour bus through Israel’s countryside nearly mesmerized as the tour guide explained the scenery, the history, and the lifestyle. In his description, he included a heart-warming
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 27, 2009
I am reminded of Herman Melville’s description of the pulpit in Moby Dick. It’s actually a description of a real pulpit in the Whaler’s Chapel that a Jewish friend went out of his way to show me in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It reads:
Its paneled front was in the likeness of a ship’s bluff bows,
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Contributed by Timothy Mills on Oct 24, 2002
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In the movie "Return of the Jedi" Luke Skywalker is learning to be a Jedi from the Jedi Master, Yoda. Luke is performing an exercise of mind over matter when he fails the exercise. Yoda tells him to raise his X-Wing fighter from the murky water where it sank upon his arrival on Degoba. He says
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Contributed by Mark Bauer on Aug 1, 2007
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There is a priest in Dublin, Ireland named Father Foster
He tells about the day
he parked his car on a rather steep slope
close to his church.
His little terrier was lying on the back seat
and could not be seen by anyone outside the vehicle.
Father Foster got out of the car,
turned to lock
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Lutheran
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