Contributed by Bret Toman on Mar 14, 2013
ALREADY APPROVED
I remember trying to get approved for our first mortgage. There were a number of difficulties and it was very frustrating both for me, and I'm sure for our agent. But after all the sweat and tears we got approval and consequently the offer on the house we wanted was accepted. Some
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Baptist
Contributed by Ken Pell on Apr 14, 2013
NEVER DONE WITH YOU
There is a show on the SyFy channel that Vickie and I watch called "Eureka." It is about a sheriff in a town of geniuses. The Sheriff is always working through comedic catastrophes that the geniuses have induced with their experiments. But the biggest dilemma the sheriff often
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Nazarene
Contributed by David Simpson on Feb 19, 2018
After the horrific school shooting in Broward County, Florida on February 14, 2018, several prayer vigils were held in the community. The vigil on Thursday evening ended with a request for everyone to write one specific act of good that they would perform in the coming days and weeks as a way to
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Christian Church
Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
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We live in a culture that breeds dissatisfaction. Henri Nouwen wrote a wonderful book entitled The
Return of the Prodigal Son. It is a top 10. He made this statement.
Many consumeristic economies stay afloat my manipulating the low self esteem of their consumers. By creating spiritual
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The story is told of a college professor who visited the Fiji Islands. Being agnostic, he critically remarked to an elderly chief, "You’re a great leader, but it’s a pity you’ve been taken in by those foreign missionaries. They only want to get rich through you.
"No one believes the Bible anymore.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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When evangelist D. L. Moody was conducting evangelistic meetings, he frequently faced hecklers who strongly disagreed with him. In the final service of one campaign, an usher handed the famous preacher a note as he entered the auditorium. It was actually from an atheist who had been giving Mr.
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A priest visited an elderly woman who was dying at home. She was sure that God no longer loved her because of the sins she had committed in her life; things that she thought were too terrible for even God to forgive. The priest told her about God’s grace and mercy, and Christ’s atonement for our
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by West Garner on Aug 31, 2007
Have you took time to notice the not responsible signs around you. This week at a restaurant I ate at I noticed a sign by the coat rack that said, “Management Not Responsible for harmed or stolen garments in this area.” For those of us that fly, have you ever read the fine print on your airline
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Baptist
Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 6, 2007
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Charlie Brown and Lucy and Linus are lying on the ground, looking up into the sky. Lucy says, "If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formations. What do you think you see, Linus?" Linus responds, "Well, those clouds up there look like the map of the British Honduras
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 9, 2007
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To him who is thirsty I will give them without cost...... when our family go out to restaurants or a cafe or pub lunch, Danielle will often ask me to go and get some water, but she doesn’t mean bottled water she means get some tap water because its free. I always feel embarrassed asking for
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Baptist
Contributed by Don Hawks on Oct 15, 2007
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2 construction workers were eating lunch one day. One of them says, “I hope I don’t have another meat loaf sandwich. I’m getting tired of meatloaf.”
The next day the construction worker opens his sandwich for lunch and says, “Meatloaf sandwich again I hate this stuff!”
The third day this guy
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Methodist
Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Oct 26, 2007
Seizing opportunities: -- A lady once writing to a young man in the navy, who was almost a stranger, thought, "Shall I close this as anybody would, or shall I say a word for my Master?" and lifting up her heart for a moment, she wrote, telling him that his constant change of scene and place was an
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Baptist
Contributed by Curtis Rowe on Dec 11, 2007
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Ill. In the Whisperer Test Mary Ann Bird writes, “I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it; I had a cleft pallet and a speech impediment.
My second grade teacher was a short, round, happy, sparkling lady named Miss Leonard. Each year we had a hearing test and during that test she uttered
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Baptist
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 27, 2008
If you drive along Woodland Blvd. In downtown Deland, you will notice that all of the old buildings in that area, unlike the oldest buildings in Enterprise, are all built of masonry. That’s because of the fire of 1855. The fire, which swept downtown Deland in September of 1855 forever, changed
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Baptist
Contributed by Scott Carroll on Mar 11, 2008
A tragic event that occurred in the spring of 1931 when nine young black men were pulled off an Alabama freight train and accused of raping two young white women.
A fight had broken out between blacks and whites in which, the whites were thrown off the train; the surprise was that two southern
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Finney coined the following thoughts about revival from his lectures and book called "Revivals of Religion" (1835):
“A revival always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the church…In a true revival, Christians are always brought under such convictions, they see their sins in such light
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
The number 13, for example:
The Turks so disliked that number that they practically removed it from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894).
Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue.
Many buildings don’t have a 13th floor.
And according to information I had a number of years ago, some
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BRINGING THE OLD LIFE WITH YOU
The motor home has allowed us to put all the conveniences of home on wheels. A camper no longer needs to contend with sleeping in a sleeping bag, cooking over a fire, or hauling water from a stream. Now he can park a fully equipped home on a cement slab in the midst
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