Contributed by Asiri Perera on Sep 6, 2006
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True Riches
A tax officer asked an old man to declare his wealth.
The Old man declared his riches like this:
o A mansion in heaven
o Everlasting life
o Peace that passes all understanding
o Joy unspeakable
o Devine love that never fails
o A crown of life
o A faithful wife
o Healthy, Happy &
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Methodist
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Aug 5, 2003
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Listen to Adrian Rogers:
“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is not love and it is not friendship if we fail to declare the whole counsel of God. It is better
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Wesleyan
The chief executive of a large and successful chain of stores made a striking statement about the future of his company. He said that a hundred years from now it would be either greatly changed or nonexistent. The same can be said about any church. If a church fails to change with the times it will
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 25, 2010
Wayne Grudem writes, "In a day when it is common for people to tell us how hard it is to interpret Scripture rightly, we would do well to remember than not once in the Gospels do we ever hear Jesus saying anything like this: 'I see how your problem arose--the Scriptures are not very clear on this
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Independent/Bible
To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the businessman whose flight was delayed an hour.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask the man who had
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
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300,000 VISITS FOR MYSELF
Jimmy Carter, in his autobiography WHY NOT THE BEST? shared an incident that made him aware of his lack of evangelical fervor.
Each year the congregation of Plains Baptist Church holds a one-week revival service. In preparation for the week, the leaders of the
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Contributed by Kerry Kinchen on Nov 10, 2003
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"I may not here omit how, notwithstand[ing] all their great pains and industry, and the great hopes of a large crop, the Lord seemed to blast, and take away the same, and to threaten further and more sore famine unto them. By a great drought which continued from the third week in May, till about
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2002
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THE POWER OF GIVING THANKS
Something to reflect on as you sit down to your Thanksgiving dinner:
If you had been a Pilgrim, would you have given thanks?
Consider what they had been through, the men and women who broke bread together on that first Thanksgiving in 1621.
They had uprooted
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 12, 2001
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It was a fog-shrouded morning, July 4, 1952, when a young woman named Florence Chadwick waded into the water off Catalina Island. She intended to swim the channel from the island to the California coast. Long-distance swimming was not new to her; she had been the first woman to swim the English
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Sep 25, 2006
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“It was a fog-shrouded morning, July 4, 1952, when a young woman named Florence Chadwick waded into the water off Catalina Island. She intended to be the first woman to swim the 21 miles from the island to the California coast. Long-distance swimming was not new to her; she had been the first woman
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Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 18, 2006
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Sometime ago a man who was Pastor in a large church, very successful in everything he did except one thing – the most important thing. He was failing in his marriage. The reason was, because his wife could see through him. She knew what he was really like. Not what he was like up in the pulpit,
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Someone once asked radio commentator Paul Harvey to reveal the secret of his success. Here’s what he said: "I get up when I fall down," Bits & Pieces, March 3, 1994, p. 16.
That’s pretty simple, but I think race-car-driver Bill Vukovich might have him beat. When someone asked Vukovich the Secret
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Contributed by Daniel Haas on Jan 5, 2011
WINNER AND LOSER
In 1958, a New York City father named Robert Lane decided to call his baby son Winner. The Lanes, who lived in a housing project in Harlem, already had several children, each with a fairly typical name. But this boy—well, Robert Lane apparently had a special feeling about him.
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Congregational
Contributed by James O. Davis on Dec 5, 2001
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Edmund Hillary attempted to climb Mount Everest in 1952. A few weeks later after his failed attempt, he was asked to address a group in England. Hillary walked to the edge of the stage, made a fist and pointed at a picture of the mountain. He said in a loud voice, "Mount Everest, you beat me the
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
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SPENDING TIME WITH THE KIDS?
The April 6, 1990, issue of the Wall Street Journal reported that, on the average, American parents spend less than fifteen minutes a week in serious discussion with their children. For fathers the amount of intimate contact with their children is an average of
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d. Bonnie Ricks states “…Learn what being set apart really means... It means leading a life that is a reflection of Jesus Christ. It means demonstrating with your life that life in Jesus makes a difference. It means showing people through your actions what the love of God really means. It means
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Pushover Parents: A recent study found that 24% of teens say their parents have given them alcohol, and 21% have been to a party where alcohol was supplied by the parents.
Focus on the Family’s Dr. Bill Maier attributes the problem to what he calls pushover parents. “Unfortunately, there are a
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