Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 8, 2002
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Did you know there’s a company called “The Alibi Agency.” This London based agency’s slogan is: “We serve those who stray.” Here’s what’s on their web site: “With the pressures of modern life many of us have occasion to stray from our long term partners & dally with a brief sexual relationship with
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Contributed by Mark Roper on Mar 2, 2001
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Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher, told a story about a goose who was wounded and who landed in a barnyard with some chickens. He played with the chickens and ate with the chickens. After a while that goose thought he was a chicken. One day a flight of geese came over, migrating to their
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Church Of God
Contributed by Doug Fannon on Mar 2, 2020
When I was the Sunday School director for the church I belonged to in New Mexico over 30 years ago, I remember asking one gentleman, an older, and supposedly a mature Christian, if he would teach a Sunday School class. I received the standard "churchy" answer I have heard time and time
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Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Oct 28, 2006
Read about Dr. Harry Ironside where he was called upon at his home by two nuns to collect money for a certain charity. He invited them inside and as he talked with them, he quickly and skillfully steered the conversation around to the subject of saints. Then suddenly he asked, "Would you like to
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Baptist
Today Christ the King calls you and me to “be His witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth until He comes in final victory, and we feat at His table for ever.” I deeply love, appreciate, and respect the ministry of Chicago Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, the Founder and
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Methodist
I found a book called “Love Hunger” and I started reading it.They talked about how an empty heart will cause some people to over eat to fill it but the reality is they are overfilling the stomach – not dealing with the heart issue. I continued to read from this book and listen to some of the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Steven Cannon on Jan 15, 2007
1 Pet 2:21 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. 1 Pet 2:22 "He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth." 1 Pet 2:23 When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he
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So what about us? We call ourselves Christians, that is followers of Jesus. What kind of disciples are we? Do we have a purely academic interest in the words of Jesus, or are we prepared to put him first in our lives? Are we ready to fish for
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 15, 2007
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H. Page Williams wrote a book called Do Yourself a Favor: Love Your Wife. I wish there were some way to make it required reading for church membership.
In it he said, "I asked one wife what it was that her husband was doing that caused her to want to leave him, and her reply was ’Nothing.’
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 14, 2001
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"We can see how calling time a problem or tyrant is a misnomer; it focuses on the symptoms rather than the disease. Time measures motion and change in activities determined by our decisions, motivated by our goals and values. The tyranny of the urgent is more than a question about time. Tension
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