Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
A young man once fell in love with a girl and saw the starlight in her eyes when he proposed. He bought a ring to give her but he was poor, and it wasn’t a very big diamond. He said to her apologetically, "It is not a very big stone." But she replied, "It is as big as we make it."
If you are
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Jul 28, 2002
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“As soon as children are old enough to speak, one of the first questions parents ask is, “How big are you?” Children seem to always give the same answer, “I’m soooo big!” They generally raise their hands to get additional stature, as if to say, “I’m huge. I’m enormous. There’s no telling how big I
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Baptist
Contributed by Andrew Chan on Apr 23, 2002
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According to Stuart Briscoe: “The Industrial Revolution of the mid-19th century made it possible for many women to stay home while their husbands became the sole
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 23, 2009
THREE-FOLD REWARD
Glenys and I were only married five years and in our second church. Money was tight and our needs were overwhelming. For a variety of reasons we were down to making an important decision – give our tithe or use it to buy groceries. Our faith was simple but strong. We decided our
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Paul Steen on Dec 11, 2017
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The term “Sunk costs” is an accounting term. It refers to historical costs that no longer have relevance to decisions being made today.
Ali Saam (Garcia) and his stock market losses. He had over $140,000 in stocks. Then, two weeks later his portfolio was down to $77,000. He felt he couldn’t sell
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Calvary Chapel
Contributed by Lacell Sherman on Jul 4, 2001
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SACRIFICING THE SON
There was a Pastor, who after the usual Sunday Evening Hymns, stood up, walked over to the pulpit and, before he gave his sermon for the evening, briefly introduced a guest minister who was in service that evening. In the introduction, the Pastor told the congregation that the
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There was a Pastor, who after the usual Sunday Evening Hymns, stood up, walked over to the pulpit and, before he gave his sermon for the evening, briefly introduced a guest minister who was in service that evening. In the introduction, the Pastor told the congregation that the guest minister was
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Feb 22, 2005
I want you to see what I think is one of the greatest examples of what we’ve been talking about and surprisingly it’s in a Hollywood motion picture. In “The Family Man” Jack, the husband, has made a career decision without consulting Kate, his wife. Because the opportunity is so lucrative Jack is
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Christian Church
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 8, 2003
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[From Apostles and Prophets: The Foundation of the Church, by C. Peter Wagner, 2000, Regal Books, Ventura California, pp. 25]
In my book Churchquake! I say:
Of all the radical changes in the New Apostolic Reformation, I regard one of them as the most radical of all.
It is so important that I have
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