Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Apr 27, 2009
OBJECT LESSON: YOUR REPUTATION
(Light a candle on stage.) It’s easy to keep a fire going. What do you do to it? Not much. You work to get it started, and then it pretty much burns on its own. You may have to protect it, maybe do a little maintenance on it. But the fire is automatic. But if
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 11, 2009
In the early days of the American frontier, an Indian chief heard the message of the gospel and was wonderfully saved. Such an indescribable peace flooded his soul that he couldn’t keep from talking about the Lord. Another chief visited and wanted to know who this Jesus was, what He had done, and
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Contributed by Todd Catteau on Oct 31, 2005
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When Christians fail to trust God, demanding assurance when God, in fact, has already spoken, they lose out on the opportunity to be used by him to the fullest extent…We lose out on his good gifts. And worse, we may find ourselves expending all kinds of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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For centuries educated and literate persons considered it important to start the day by getting out of bed on the right side. The meaning of the verbal formula, which is now more familiar than the ceremony that produced it, is literal. To get out of bed on the left side was to invite
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Sep 25, 2006
Most of all, our God has this fire. That is how the bush could burn with out being consumed. This is how our lights can burn with our going out. This is how we can have the ‘fire of God’ in our lives and not is consumed. Let us
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 3, 2003
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IF I CAN'T BE GOOD ENOUGH...
Little Billy, caught in mischief, was asked by his mother, "How do you expect to get into heaven?"
He thought for a moment and then said, "Well, I’ll just run in and out and keep slamming the door until
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There are three kinds of givers -- the flint, the sponge and the honeycomb. To get anything out of a flint you must hammer it. And then you get only chips and sparks. To get water out of a sponge you must squeeze it, and the more you use pressure, the more you will
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Contributed by Joe Fornear on Oct 12, 2004
A rookie baseball pitcher who was struggling trying to get his pitches over the plate, so the catcher walked out to have a talk with him. "I’ve figured out your problem," he told the young southpaw. "You always seem to lose control at the same point in
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Contributed by Don Jones on Apr 14, 2007
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Attending church in Kentucky, we watched an especially verbal and boisterous child being hurried out, slung under his irate father’s arm. No one in the congregation so much as raised an eyebrow -- until the child captured everyone’s attention by
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Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 7, 2007
• A few years ago in Kentucky there was a little boy who was being very disruptive during service
• After a few minutes, his father who had put him under his arm carried him out.
• No one in the congregation so much as raised an
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Christian Church
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Getters generally dont get happiness; givers get it. You simply give to others a bit of yourself, a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind,
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Contributed by Timothy Brown on Feb 28, 2010
THE SPONGE
Think a moment about a water-saturated sponge. If we push down with our finger even slightly, water runs out onto the table. We immediately know what fills the interior pockets of the sponge. The same is true of ourselves. We can tell
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Apr 15, 2010
BARRIERS ---- I had this job one summer where I delivered eggs to omelet shops, small groceries, bakeries and such on the East side of the San Francisco Bay. It was a crazy job fraught with difficulties and adventure. You would think the most difficult place to make deliveries would be Berkley
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Contributed by Mark Busch on Apr 20, 2006
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Bono, lead singer of U2
You see, at the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth . . . And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that “as you reap, so you will sow” stuff. Grace defies reason
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 24, 2003
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Getting an Outside Line
A young woman came to the welfare office to apply for social help.
The social worker told her that her husband would have to sign the papers as well.
The social worker then noticed that the young lady was looking at the telephone as if she wanted to call her husband, so
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