PAYING TO FEEL BAD
I recall many years ago when I was a sales manager for Connecticut Mutual going on some calls with an agent in another city. He led me into a major restaurant and walked up to the owner, who was an acquaintance of his, shook his hand and said "Are you going to buy that life
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Catholic
Contributed by Steve Malone on Jun 6, 2002
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AND – do you know what is really sad – this lack of prayer in the church that we see today – this putting not just on the back burner, BUT in the garage the POWERFUL weapon of prayer – has been a problem in the church for a very long time…hundreds of years…
Fenelon a French writer of the late
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2003
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Andrew was a grown man, but had some real trouble adjusting to the adult world. He had a pleasant simplicity that many mistakened for a slowness of mind.
One day he came to me upset because his bike had been stolen for the second time. I told him about the time someone had stolen my favorite
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Contributed by Gregory Fisher on Jul 1, 2004
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Zanzibar is an old city in East Africa. A city with an unfortunate past. It is filled with ornate architecture, and it is the home of the Swahili Institute, the official guardians of the Kiswahili language. But, for nearly 300 years it was the home of something else. It was the home of one of
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Foursquare
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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E.M. Bounds says in his book on prayer:
Nothing distinguishes the children of God so clearly and strongly as prayer. It is the one infallible mark and test of being a Christian. Christian people are prayerful. The worldly-minded are prayer less. Christians call on God. The world ignores God and
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
There is a story about a former prizefighter that had been converted and thought God had called him to preach
The only problem was, while he thought he had the gift of preaching, nobody else had the gift of listening
So he couldn’t get a church
He got a little pulpit, found a street corner and
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Baptist
Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Apr 15, 2004
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Karl loved to follow his dad around. From an early age, Hirschel always found young Karl at his heels. The shelves of books in Hirschel’s Law study fascinated young Karl and the lad quizzed His dad to annoyance. The book Hirschel seemed to love the most was the Torah, the Hebrew Book of Law.
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Church Of God
Contributed by Doug Lyon on Sep 11, 2004
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There was a man who was born on August 19, 1843 near Clinton, Michigan. When he was 17 years old he moved to his sister’s home in Tennessee where he enlisted in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He got out of the army a year later in 1862 and he went to St. Louis to study law. On
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
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A SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP
Even those people who espouse a belief in God still often resist and resent the notion of specifically commanded behaviors. People often want the benefits of having a God for personal requests or crisis interventions, and may use being a “believer” as a way to increase
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Contributed by Martin Wiles on May 9, 2002
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On January 20, 1953, Dwight Eisenhower, his wife, family, and Cabinet members went to the National Presbyterian Church before his inauguration as 34th president.
After the service, Ike went back to the hotel suite to write a prayer that he would read during the inauguration ceremonies.
He wrote:
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Baptist
Contributed by Ron Crow on Mar 7, 2003
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The physics professor had just finished his lecture about the pendulum, wherein he had shown the mathematical proof that an untouched pendulum will always swing in ever-decreasing arcs.
He then asked for a volunteer to demonstrate this fact by standing against a wall with a pendulum bob against
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Wafford on Apr 13, 2005
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A.B. Simpson says in his book "A Larger than Christian life" and I quote: “It is all connected with a living person. We are not filled with an influence; we are not filled with a sensation; we are not filled with a set of ideas and truths; we are not filled with a blessing, but we are filled with a
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
Even when a remarriage does involve adultery, the adultery relates to the initiating act and not to the state. In some cases, remarriage does not involve adultery. God can, in fact, lead believers into second marriages which are totally free of that stigma.
We see a parallel in the commandment,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 8, 2007
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• A six-year-old boy came home with a note from his teacher in which it was suggested that he be taken out of school, as he was “too stupid to learn.” That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
• Alfred Tennyson’s grandfather gave him 10 shillings for writing a eulogy for his grandmother. Handing it to the
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Christian Church
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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IN THE 1980’S AND EARLY 1990’S, NIKE CORPORATION MADE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY MARKETING THE PHRASE “I WANNA BE LIKE MIKE.”
1. SPORTS AND NON-SPORTS FANS ALIKE NEW THAT “MIKE” WAS MICHAEL JORDAN, THE BASKETBALL SUPERSTAR FOR THE CHICAGO BULLS.
2. CHILDREN ACROSS AMERICA DREAMED OF BEING THE NEXT
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