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  • Many Years Ago The Puritans Thought That They ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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    Many years ago the Puritans thought that they were ruining Christmas with all their pagan rituals. They especially objected to the fact that the holiday usually came on a week day, therefore distracting people, they thought, from the Lord’s Day of Sunday. But they did more than annually complain ...read more

  • My Best

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Nov 18, 2006
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    “My Best” There is an urge within my breast, To give the Lord my very best, In thought, in action, word and deed, This has become my whole life’s creed. I want to fit into His plan Be of help to my fellow-man. Plan the things that I should do Before my work on earth is through. It may be out in ...read more

  • Recently A Photograph Of Two Sculptors ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 2, 2007
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    Recently a photograph of two sculptors decorating a new post office in a suburb of Cologne, West Germany, appeared in our daily newspaper. Two giant hands, each two meters long, seem to be grasping for each other but in vain. One hand, the higher hand, juts right out of the side of the building ...read more

  • John Wimber Likens The Saying Of Prayers To The ...

    Contributed by Andy Beech on Mar 29, 2008
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    John Wimber likens the saying of prayers to the throwing of a ball from one person to another. If you throw a ball to a friend - you throw it so that they can catch it. If you throw the ball and the friend chooses not to catch it, or for some reason is unable to catch it, then there can be no ...read more

  • Limerence [from Wikipedia]

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 11, 2008
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    Limerence [from Wikipedia] Limerence can often be what is meant when one expresses "having a crush" on (or infatuation with) someone else although limerence, unlike a crush, can last months, years or even a lifetime. It is characterized by intrusive thinking and pronounced sensitivity to external ...read more

  • Fresh Faith, Fresh Gospel

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 16, 2009
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    FRESH FAITH, FRESH GOSPEL The dictionary defines "fresh" as that which is newly made or obtained; that which does retain the original properties without any degradation. Conversely, "staleness" is defined as: having lost the freshness, effervescence, or palatability; lacking originality or ...read more

  • The Book Of Re-Evaluation!!!

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Feb 1, 2022
     | 1,356 views

    Charles Schulz consistently provided helpful and humorous insights through his Peanuts comic strip. In one run he showed Charlie Brown's sister, Sally, struggling with her memory verse for Sunday. She was lost in her thoughts trying to figure it out when she recalled, "Maybe it was ...read more

  • How Does The Worm Get Inside An Apple?

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Mar 12, 2023
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    How does a worm get inside an apple? Perhaps you think the worm burrows in from the outside. No, scientists have discovered that the worm comes from inside. But how does he get in there? Simple! An insect lays an egg in the apple blossom. Sometime later, the worm hatches in the heart of the ...read more

  • On The Day President Obama Was Inaugurated, Eliot ...

    Contributed by Joe La Rue on Jan 27, 2009
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    On the day President Obama was inaugurated, Eliot Swainson happened to be in Washington, D.C. The city authorities had expected record numbers of people to attend the inauguration, so they asked for assistance from other cities to help with crowd control. Metro Officer Swainson from Houston, ...read more

  • Bill Hybels: Difficult Forgiveness  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2010
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    BILL HYBELS: DIFFICULT FORGIVENESS Everything we have seen about how to deal with difficult people when put to action will bring glory to God. We find this in an illustration from Bill Hybels: "A couple of years ago, a member of my church’s vocal team and I were invited by a Christian leader ...read more

  • A Confession Of Stealing

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
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    A CONFESSION OF STEALING Jack removes the envelope from the small pile of mail and draws in a deep breath. It is from his former employer. He has lost sleep waiting for it. What he is about to read could lead to his exoneration or to imprisonment. He had written to this man two weeks ago, ...read more

  • I Have Every Faith In My Calculator's Ability To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Alan Chandler on Jan 28, 2002
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    I have every faith in my calculator’s ability to solve any math problem. However, no matter how strong my faith is, I will never get the answer until I put my faith into action and press the buttons on the calculator. (Presenters note: If you feel comfortabe using props in your presentation, bring ...read more

  • The Dog And His Master  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 1, 2002
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    Illustration:The Dog and His Master C.S. Lewis likened God’s use of adversity to walking a dog. If the dog gets its leash wrapped around a pole and tries to continue running forward, he will only tighten the leash more. Both the dog and the owner are after the same end, forward motion, but the ...read more

  • Capitol Punishment

    Contributed by James Tidwell on Aug 7, 2005
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    Illustration: News story on Sunday, January 12, 2003; CHICAGO, Jan. 11 -- Illinois’s outgoing Republican Gov. George Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 people to life in prison today after concluding that the capital punishment system was "haunted by the demon of error." Friends and foes of ...read more

  • Sacrifice Is What Milton Olive Iii Was All ...

    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Nov 16, 2006
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    Sacrifice is what Milton Olive III was all about! As a Pfc. in the Vietnam War, he and four other soldiers were moving through a Vietnam jungle together when a grenade was thrown into their midst. Pfc. Olive saw the grenade, and then saved the lives of his fellow soldiers at the sacrifice of his ...read more

  • True Happiness Is Not Attained Through ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 9, 2006
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    True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. Bette Davis Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness ...read more

  • Sergeant 1st Class Randall Shughart Was A Member ...

    Contributed by Keith Bowman on Dec 18, 2006
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    Sergeant 1st class Randall Shughart was a member of the Army Special forces and in 1993 he volunteered for a mission that left with little chance for survival but the sergeant could not bear to see his fellow service men be left on the battlefield wounded and at the hands of an angry mob, and so, ...read more

  • This Week I Was Reading, "Relevant Magazine" And ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jul 4, 2008
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    This week I was reading, “Relevant Magazine” and I came across this news flash in their May/June 08 edition on page 38: “I Don’t Want Your Sex for Now,” “Tampa’s Relevant Church (which has no relation to RELEVANT Media Group) recently issued a challenge to married members of its congregation to ...read more

  • Divorce Fraud

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 5, 2008
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    In late July of 2008, this article appeared: KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - An Indian man who took an impersonator to court to get a divorce faces legal action after his real wife found out, lawyers said Friday. Sanjib Saha presented a woman as his wife in a lower court in the eastern city of Kolkata ...read more

  • But What Is Meant By This ‘mark Of The Beast'? ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on Oct 16, 2008
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    “But what is meant by this ‘mark of the beast’? Various amusing answers have been given. These theories err in this respect, namely, that they interpret this mark as a single, individual, outward, visible sign that will appear on the forehead or hand of the wicked at one particular moment in ...read more