Self - I have an acrostic which I came up this week for SELF:
S = Serving
E = Ego
L = Living
F = Foolishly
EGO is:
E = Edging
G = God
O = Out
This is what self always does - it pushes God out of focus and places self as “uno” number one to be served and to be appeased. Servant leaders are
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Contributed by Danny Pinksen on Jun 28, 2007
There was a guy who leaned slightly to the left. His friend suggested he go and see a chiropractor and have his legs checked. After years of refusing, he finally went to the chiropractor only discover that one leg was ¾" shorter than his right. A quick bit of adjusting later, he was cured, and both
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Holiness
Contributed by Donald Smith on Apr 23, 2003
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THE FATHER'S DAY TOP TEN LIST OF
THINGS YOU'VE BEEN ITCHIN'TO SAY FOR YEARS NOW...
We often hear "the rules" from the feminine side. Ok
- well now hear the guys’ side - it’s only fair - - realizing of course that Father’s Day is the only day of the year we could get away with it!)
#10 Whenever
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Methodist
Contributed by Gerald Steffy on Aug 28, 2009
HARLAND SANDERS: STORY OF HOPE
Here’s a man sitting on his porch in Kentucky. He’s only recently retired from the post office, and he’s sitting there when his first Social Security check is delivered. He’s very, very discouraged. He thinks to himself, Is this what life is going to be from now
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Baptist
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A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 50 years earlier. Because of their hectic schedules, it was difficult for the couple to coordinate their travel plans. So, the husband
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There is the story of a taxpayer who needed to ease his conscience. "A taxpayer wrote to the Internal Revenue Service, "I have not been able to sleep well for two years. Here is my check for $1,200 for back taxes." He even signed his name, then added a short P.S. "If I don’t sleep better in a week,
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United Methodist
Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 13, 2003
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Folks, the resurrection story is believable. You can believe in the death of Jesus. You can believe in the empty tomb. You can believe in the appearances Jesus made afterwards. It still takes a certain amount of faith to accept it as your own, but it’s like riding a bike. According the laws of
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Baptist
Contributed by Larry Elder on Jul 12, 2003
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An archaeologist was digging in the Negev Desert in Israel and came upon a sarcophagus containing a mummy.
After examining it, he called the curator of a prestigious natural-history
museum.
"I’ve just discovered the 3,000 year-old mummy of a man who died of heart
failure!" the excited scientist
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Aug 7, 2006
A. In its early days, Dallas Theological Seminary was in critical need of $10,000 to keep the work going. During a prayer meeting, renowned Bible teacher Harry Ironside, a lecturer at the school, prayed, “Lord, you own the cattle on a thousand hills. Please sell some of those cattle to help us meet
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Baptist
Contributed by Fred Sigle on Feb 13, 2007
There was a large PREACHERS’ convention held in Nashville, Tennessee. And during the BREAK, several of the PREACHERS ran across the street from the CONVENTION CENTER to purchase some SNACKS from a CONVENIENT STORE.
The STORE CLERK started CHECKING out the PREACHERS one by one—CHIPS, GUM,
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Segun Omole on Feb 28, 2008
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He had been married for 10 years but did not have any child even though he loved children. Everyone would ask him what was the problem. Some would even offer him medical advice free of charge but he kept trusting God and His word. He’d gone for several medical check ups and even his wife had been
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jan 17, 2005
But you don’t have to deliberately break the rules to be disqualified. It’s possible to unintentionally break the rules and still be disqualified. At the ’88 Summer Olympics there was an American boxer named Anthony Hembrick. He was disqualified from competition because he didn’t show up at the
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Nov 13, 2006
There are many people today who are in bondage to things they can no longer control. We hear about them every day. Keith Urban, the Country Music star who is married to Nicole Kidman, checked himself into a rehabilitation treatment center last week for alcohol abuse, and could not appear at the
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Methodist
Contributed by Don Griffin on Jul 11, 2007
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If you were to walk down the aisles of any pharmacy in America you’d find that one of their most popular products is pain killers. They have shelves that are packed with bottles Ibuprofen, Aspirin, Tylenol etc. If you want, you can buy them in huge jars holding 250 pills. Other shelves contain
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 24, 2007
I once had an appointment with a certain director of an international organization in which I wanted to exchange some research materials with. I had no official appointment document except for the formal letters which we have been exchanging in communication. It was not easy for a person to get
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Pentecostal
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An 80 year old couple were having problems remembering things, so they decided to go to their doctor to get checked out to make sure nothing was wrong with them. When they arrived at the doctor’s, they explained to the doctor about the problems they were having with their memory. After checking
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Baptist
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
Antonio The Garbage Man.
Antonio’s huge truck would arrive, backing up with that horrific big truck back up sound.
He would jump out and start pounding on the door,
Shouting over the unbelievably loud truck,
"Garbage Man, Garbage man, Garbage man is here!"
Well, no kidding, a side from the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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