Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 12, 2007
ILLUSTRATION
Healing - Doctors Have Faith in Faith
A survey conducted by the American Academy of Family Physicians shows that ninety-nine percent of doctors believe a relationship exists between faith and physical healing. Recently, more than one thousand health-care professionals met at Harvard
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Charismatic
Contributed by Ian Johnson on Jun 4, 2003
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My sheep hear my voice and come to me!
Someone once asked a banker how he trained his staff to recognise counterfiet notes:
The banker said, thats simple, I have them handling the real thing all day, so
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Martin Wiles on May 9, 2002
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One of England’s greatest preachers, W. E. Sangster, in Let Me Command, said, “The easiest way to embarrass a congregation of twentieth century Christians is to ask them two simple questions. ‘When is the last time you
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Baptist
THE MACHINE WEARS OUT
President Woodrow Wilson experienced the devastation of World War I, he suffered a stroke which severely weakened him, 3 years after leaving office he died. His last words were, "The machinery
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Baptist
Contributed by Danny Rogers on Nov 29, 2006
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Hold up an empty glass. Ask, “Do you know how to get the air out of this glass?” We cannot suck the air out. The answer is simple. Take a pitcher of water and fill the glass. Explain: Now the air is gone. The victory in the Christian life is not
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers you can blame anyone, but never blame yourself. Its never your fault. But its always your fault, because if you wanted to
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Oct 20, 2012
CURING NAIL-BITING
Talking of bad habits I did hear the story of an elderly couple. The wife proudly boasted that "she had cured her husband of biting his nails."
When someone asked her, "How did you manage
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Brethren
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
As Philip Yancey in his book entitled “Prayer” says:
“Jesus taught a model prayer – the Lord’s Prayer but otherwise gave few rules. His teaching reducees down to three principles: Keep it honest, keep it simple and keep it up
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Contributed by Rex S. Wignall on Oct 25, 2002
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Sometimes, we are tempted to think we are the only ones who struggle with this burden. Ellsworth Kalas tells the discovery that Thomas Wolfe the fine American writer made about loneliness:
Wolfe was a lonely man. He once thought that loneliness was something suffered especially, perhaps even
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United Methodist
Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
DISCIPLINES: THE DECATHLON
The Olympic decathlon is internationally recognized as the most demanding test of individual athletic ability there is. It is the event that determines the world's greatest all-around athlete.
Originating in a contest held at the 708 B.C. Olympiad to single out Greece's
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*other
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AN OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF AN INWARD EXPERIENCE
David Ring was born with cerebral palsy. He had complications at birth and he was technically dead for 18 minutes after delivery. No oxygen reached his brain and a portion was permanently damaged.
His family’s story was catastrophic – his father had
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Independent/Bible
Jesus was not just another rabbi among thousands. He was unique in so many ways, And here in Matthew’s gospel he reveals his ability to cut through the fog of legalism to give the essence of all law by boiling everything down to its most basic parts. He was able to take the Decalogue (10
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2001
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David said he was the apple of God’s eye. I can always enthusiastically claim that I know who God’s favorite child is..."me". And so I am, and so are you, and you...He sees each of us as His favorite and there are no seconds, and thus He
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