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  • Integrity Meltdown

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Feb 2, 2009
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    INTEGRITY MELTDOWN What do the following people have in common? John Edwards David Duchovny Fast Eddie Johnson Winona Ryder Jeremiah Gunner Scott Karen Raborn Heather Johnston Amy Wilkins The all experienced some type of integrity meltdown. John Edwards -- Had and affair and fathered a child ...read more

  • Meltdown Stories

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Feb 2, 2009
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    MELTDOWN STORIES An eight-year-old British girl has been taken into care by Portuguese authorities after her mother reportedly left her alone to go out drinking while on vacation in Portugal. In Spain, a father booted his two 11-year-old twin sons out of the car in which they were travelling in ...read more

  • It's Only A Game...

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Feb 2, 2009
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    IT'S ONLY A GAME... Unhappy with a series of calls throughout the game, parents and fans in attendance at a Concord, N.H., little league baseball game last Wednesday expressed their displeasure with the umpires by showering them with vulgarities, threatening them and confronting them face-to-face ...read more

  • Who Do Your Kids Look Up To?

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Feb 2, 2009
     | 1,813 views

    WHO DO YOUR KIDS LOOK UP TO? In 2003, two very interesting quotes were in the newspapers. Parents had been polled and asked who they thought the most influential role-models were in the lives of their preteen sons. The answer: bad boy Bart Simpson was named the top-role model. Parents of children ...read more

  • That's Just Denny.

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 11, 2009
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    "THAT'S JUST DENNY." John Ortberg tells of a man in a church he once pastored whom he called Denny. Denny was not a happy man. He had attended church his whole life, but he had never been happy. Even the expression on his face was perpetually negative - so much so that one day a deacon asked him, ...read more

  • The Mona Lisa Of Your Life

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 20, 2009
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    THE MONA LISA OF YOUR LIFE We live in an "I can’t wait" society. We must have instant gratification! It is no longer good enough to have a phone at home – now need a phone in your pocket! It is no longer good enough to have dial up internet – now must have High speed DSL ...to send a letter via ...read more

  • The Importance Of Purpose

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 12, 2009
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    THE IMPORTANCE OF PURPOSE The University of Success...a discussion of the universal qualities of successful people. I was struck with the statement that "all successful people have a clear purpose in life." They have a compelling reason to get out of bed in the morning, and that driving purpose ...read more

  • Signs Only Expose Reality

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 14, 2009
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    SIGNS ONLY EXPOSE REALITY Signs do not create a reality; they merely expose it. For example, a sign on a highway may read "Chicago: 160 miles". If we changed the sign to read "60 miles" instead, it wouldn't change the fact that Chicago is really 160 miles away. Truth doesn't change, no matter ...read more

  • Habits

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    HABITS The American Heritage Dictionary "A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition." It comes from the idea "to have, to hold, possess." Roman poet Ovid in 43 BC: "Nothing is stronger than habit." Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, ...read more

  • The Nobel Story

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    THE NOBEL STORY In 1866, Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and built up companies and laboratories in more than 20 countries all over the world. In the process, he amassed a considerable fortune. When Nobel’s brother died, the newspaper made a mistake and ran an obituary for Alfred Nobel. In the ...read more

  • Unmarked Police Car

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 30, 2009
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    UNMARKED POLICE CAR As my husband, the county highway commissioner, was driving to the hospital for treatment of his painful leg, he decided to use the valet parking service so he wouldn’t have to walk far. Staring at his official-looking vehicle, one of the valets asked my husband if he was ...read more

  • Object Lesson: Your Reputation

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Apr 27, 2009
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    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 ...read more

  • William Barclay Said: "The Disaster That ...

    Contributed by Thomas Cash on May 14, 2009
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    William Barclay said: "The disaster that happened to Peter could have happened to the most heroic of us. All the others ran away; Peter did not. To enter the courtyard—-the very center of the high priest’s house-—was to ...read more

  • Farewell, President

    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
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    FAREWELL, PRESIDENT An on-line friend directed my attention this week by to a recently published note by one of our nation’s most distinguished church historians, Dr. Martin Marty on the eve of President Obama’s inauguration. It was titled, "Farewell, President" and in it he quoted the late ...read more

  • The Late W.h. Auden Wrote, "Because Of ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
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    The late W.H. Auden wrote, "Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because ...read more

  • Dad, Are You God?

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on May 20, 2009
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    DAD, ARE YOU GOD? One day after church, the pastor asked his little boy what he learned in Sunday school. The lad said, "I learned that God loves me more than anything else in the whole world." "What else did you learn?" asked his dad. "I learned that when I’m bad, He spanks real hard." "What ...read more

  • The Apostle John

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on May 26, 2009
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    THE APOSTLE JOHN Here are some of the things we know about John, John was one of the apostles. In fact he was the youngest apostle. His brother was the apostle James who is beheaded in Acts 12. He is the only apostle to not be martyred for his faith. And he walked in the inner circle of Jesus. ...read more

  • What Would You Do?

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jul 9, 2009
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    WHAT WOULD YOU DO? A young police officer was taking his final exam for the police academy and he was set the following problem to solve. "You are on patrol in the outer city when an explosion occurs in a gas main in a nearby street. On investigation you find that a large hole has been blown in ...read more

  • Dr. John Maxwell Says: "These Experiences Are ...

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
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    Dr. John Maxwell says: "These experiences are like tea in hot water: They bring ...read more

  • The Rich Man And The Poor Carpenter

    Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 24, 2009
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    THE RICH MAN AND THE POOR CARPENTER One day a good, rich man noticed the miserable conditions in which a certain poor carpenter lived. He decided to help the poor man and commissioned him to build a beautiful house. He told the carpenter, "I want this house to be ideal. Use only the best ...read more