Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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HYBELS: "TOTALLY DEVOTED" TO CHRIST
Bill Hybels, Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, was talking with one of his members about some of the "tough topics" he had taught on over the years—-hell, money, sex, relational confrontation, self-discipline. The man asked, "Of all the topics you’ve
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Contributed by Roger Miller on Apr 27, 2010
NFL Players are Some of the strongest most disciplined athletes in the world-and exactly who you would
want to walk with you down a dark alley! But look at Michael Vick and Big Ben and you know for a fact
they are weaklings against sin! They are a worthless savior! It is a reminder that all
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Contributed by Matt Neace on Aug 7, 2018
An Arkansas woman's stolen cash was turned over to police with a letter of apology from the thief who took it from her wallet.
Susan McNabb said she left her wallet, and the $160 cash it contained, behind at the Walmart store in Clinton, and when she returned a short time later, the wallet was
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Baptist
Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
Kahlil Gibran, writes the following poem On Children:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you,
You may give them your love but not your
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Mennonite
Contributed by Timothy Craver on Sep 27, 2001
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There’s an old fable about a miserable rich man who went to visit a rabbi. The rabbi took the rich man by the hand and led him to a window. "Look out there," he said. The rich man looked into the street. "What do you see?" asked the rabbi. "I see men, women, and children," answered the rich
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Brethren
Contributed by Ronald Keller on Nov 24, 2003
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“Billy Bray was saved from a terrible life of drunkenness and sin. After his conversion he experienced one trouble after another, but he never ceased praising the Lord. At last he came to the place where all he had to eat was a mess of very small potatoes which a friend had given him. Billy Bray
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Nazarene
Contributed by John Perry on Apr 2, 2010
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GOD STARTED IT; YOU FINISH IT
Leonardo da Vinci had started work on a large canvas in his studio. For a while he worked at it, choosing the subject, planning the perspective, sketching the outline, applying his own natural genius. Then suddenly he ceased, the painting still unfinished, and
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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C.S. Lewis observed, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English
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Contributed by Anne Benefield on Feb 19, 2008
“Fasting can be a form of body praying… [But] fasting has nearly ceased to be practiced among us as a religious duty. It has been replaced by other forms of self-denial. One of the most common of those among us is dieting, which is largely cosmetic and therapeutic. What is there to say about it?
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 15, 2009
SURE OF WHAT WE HOPE FOR
Saving faith has much assurance. Michael Faraday, the great scientist, was taken ill. When it became evident his sickness would soon result in his death, a group of fellow scientists came to see him--not so much to talk about science as to talk about death. One of them
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Baptist
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 2, 2007
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“What Are Christians For?”
A Christian woman who was engaged in work for the poor and degraded was once spoken to by one who was well acquainted with both the worker and those whom she sought to reach.
“It does seem wonderful to me that you can do such work,” her friend said. “You sit beside
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Christian Church
Contributed by Troy Borst on May 1, 2003
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ILLUSTRATION… Never Act in Panic Our Daily Bread, H.G.B, Tuesday, January 12
The great preacher F. B. Meyer gave some sound advice on what to do in a crisis. He wrote, “Never act in panic, nor allow man to dictate to you; calm yourself and be still; force yourself into the quiet of your closet
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Sep 9, 2004
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ILLUSTRATION... Prayer is the link by AB Simpson
Prayer is the link that connects us with God. It is the bridge that spans every gulf and bears us over every
abyss of danger or of need. How significant is this picture of the New Testament church: Peter in prison, the Jews triumphant, Herod
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
A pilot was flying his small plane one day, when he heard a noise which he recognized as the gnawing of a rat. Wondering what its sharp teeth were cutting through, he suddenly realized with horror that it might be an electric wire.
Then he remembered that rodents can’t survive at high
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Pentecostal