Contributed by John Telgren on Feb 11, 2017
                
                
                
                    I put my son to bed, and went through the routine. "I love you, I love mommy, I love your brothers, etc." Then he stopped, looked up at me, and asked, "What about my Teddy, don't you love my Teddy?" I looked over at a tattered, dingy, stuffed animal that was on it's last leg quite literally. I
                    
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                    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Sep 17, 2011
                
                
                
                    IN APPRECIATION
In Enterprise, Alabama, you will see one of the most unusual monuments ever built. It is a monument to honor the boll weevil, the little insect that nearly destroyed the cotton on which the town's economy depended. 
Why a monument to so destructive an insect? Because before the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                
                    "People want to be appreciated, not impressed. They want to be regarded as human beings, not as mere sounding boards for other peoples egos. They want to be treated as an end in
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life
                    
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                    Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Jun 24, 2025
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Proverbs 17:22, A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. 
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Helping the church with Pastor Appreciation Day
I was recently invited to preach for the Sunday morning service. 
Ice Breaker: For an introduction, I stated the following:
This is
                    
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                    I sincerely respected, admired, and appreciated CBS 2 Chicago’s morning anchor Randy Salerno, who was tragically killed in a snowmobile accident on Thursday, January 24, 2008, in the Eagle River Area of Wisconsin, only 20 days after his forty-fifth birthday.  That morning I had watched him on the
                    
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                    When I was at the KTIS pastor’s appreciation dinner last week – Dr. Gary Smalley shared how he was a recovering Hedon. He defined that hedonism is the old playboy philosophy of life.  When I typed in the word Hedonism on a google search to attain its definition a website came up called “Hedonistic
                    
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                    Contributed by Michael Fritz on Nov 12, 2006
                
                
                
                    Worship isn’t listening to a sermon, appreciating the harmony of the choir, and joining in singing hymns! It isn’t even prayer, for prayer can be the selfish expression of an unbroken spirit. Worship goes deeper. Since God is spirit, we fellowship with him with our spirit; that is, the immortal
                    
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                    After 25 years as a missionary in Africa, Samuel Morrison was coming home on the same ocean liner that brought Teddy Roosevelt back from an African hunting expedition. The dock where the great ship pulled into New York Harbor was jammed with what looked like the entire population of New York City.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                
                    I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things
                    
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