Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 18, 2009
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DEFINITION OF GOSSIP
Ken Sande, in his book on conflict resolution, The Peacemaker, gives the following definition for gossip. If you are taking notes, this is the definition you will want to write down. "To gossip means to betray a confidence or to discuss unfavorable
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 14, 2011
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PETER'S VIEW OF THE CHURCH
Derek Tidball – Ministry by the Book: New Testament Patterns for Pastoral Leadership:
“Peter presents a view of the church where all are priests but some are called to exercise an overseeing role as elders and shepherds, which they do both
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Salvation Army
Not quite twenty years ago, Wess Roberts published a book entitled Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun. He later confessed that he chose Attila as his title character because so little is known about the Hun leader. It was,
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Contributed by James Wallace on Nov 12, 2009
I had been a Christian only a few months when I felt compelled to witness to my father. In the midst of the discussion, I remember a question which he blurted out in frustration. He said, “Well, if God exists, why doesn’t He just blow a big hole in the ground or something?” In other words, why
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 19, 2008
Are You Prepared To Meet God?
What Christ Has Done
A preacher was called to the bedside of a man who was seriously ill. After a few words of greeting, the minister asked, "My friend, are you prepared to meet God if you don't recover from this sickness?"
"I think so," was the reply. "I've always
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 23, 2008
Yet, excuses still abound. “It’s too hard. It’s too messy. It’s too inconvenient. It’s takes too much time.” I just have one thing to say—“Wah!”
“It doesn’t really matter. What difference can I make?” Actually each one of us makes a huge difference. Do you believe that every single person matters
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
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CAN YOU HEAR THEM?
You too, my mother, read my rhymes,
For love of forgotten times,
And you may chance, to hear once more,
The little feet along the floor
SOURCE: Robert Louis Stevenson. Citation: The
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Contributed by James Botts on Sep 1, 2002
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POPULARITY CONTEST
Love is a very popular word in our society.
Amazon.com lists:
2,652 book titles regarding “Heaven,”
10,304 for “Money,”
16,765 for “Sex,”
18,818 for “God,” and
30,066 for “Love.”
Love is one of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2004
Nobel-laureate George Wald wrote:
“One has only to wait: time itself performs the miracles. Given so much time the impossible becomes possible, the possible probable, and that probable virtually certain.”
R.C. Sproul, Not a Chance: The Myth
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 2, 2004
The Readers’ Digest reported some time ago that 50% of all husbands and 30% of all wives had participated in an extra-marital affair. In the book Secret Lovers, the findings were even higher:70% of all husbands and 50% of all wives. The
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Dec 20, 2004
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A famous French historian estimated that there had been 3,313 years of war in contrast to 227 years of peace from the 15th century BC to his own day. The world has seen 13 years of war for every year of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. Instead of studying books so
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