Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2002
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A FATHER'S FORGIVENESS
In his book, What’s So Amazing About Grace , Phillip Yancey tells the story of Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway grew up in a very devout evangelical family, and yet there he never experienced the grace of Christ. He lived a libertine life that most of us would call "dissolute"…
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Sep 2, 2023
Forty hours of toiling hard
Can make a tiresome week;
But the work has to be done,
Though old bodies grow so weak.
Now, I’ve heard Pop often say,
“Be glad when this work day’s through,
I just can’t wait to clock out,
Go home and rest with Mom and you.
Son, it’s been a long hard day,
I’m worn
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 8, 2006
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22 years ago next month, President Ronald Reagan, gave what I think is one of the best ‘Memorial Day’ speeches ever given. It was on the 40th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France that led to the destruction and ultimate surrender of Nazi Germany.
It in he said, “We stand on a lonely,
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Aug 22, 2023
As I looked through the old photo album,
my eyes fixed upon
a picture of Mom in her blue Sunday dress
wearing a soiled, yellow apron.
I smiled as, in my mind, I returned.
It seemed like just yesterday,
For I had left on it my small handprints—
From playing in Carolina red clay.
Mom had called
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2002
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FAITH IN MY FUTURE
He was born in Columbus, Ohio, 1890, the third of eight children. At eleven he quit school to help with the family expenses, and got his first full-time job at $3.50 per week. At fifteen he got interested in automobiles and went to work in a garage at $4.50 a week. He knew he
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jan 3, 2001
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Little children can come up with some very interesting ideas. Listen to what some children wrote to their mothers for Mother’s Day.
Angie, 8 years old, wrote: "Dear Mother, I’m going to make dinner for you on Mother’s Day. It’s going to be a surprise. P.S. I hope you like pizza &
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jun 15, 2001
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[Are Fathers Necessary?, Citation: Charles Colson, How Now Shall We Live (Tyndale, 1999)]
In How Now Shall We Live, Chuck Colson notes the disturbing realities that plague children who grow up without a father:
Children in single-parent families are five times more likely to be poor, and half the
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Contributed by Daniel Becker on Sep 15, 2001
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A short distance from the Pentagon, inscribed with an iron stylus on blocks of granite, the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington proclaim the words of our third President,
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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THE MOST IMPORTANT OBLIGATION
As important as your obligation as a doctor, a lawyer or a business leader may be, your human connections with your spouse, your children and your friends are the most important investment you will ever make. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
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GOD IS NIGH
I served as an airborne Ranger platoon leader (paratrooper) in the First Air Cavalry Division during the Vietnam War.
Our company was hacked up pretty badly by the enemy during one mission. When our platoon’s survivors returned to base camp, we all trudged down the muddy path
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2002
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PARTING WORDS
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2002
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REMEMBERING A DEATH WARRANT
Benjamin Rush to John Adams, July 20, 1811.
Dear Old Friend,
The 4th of July has been celebrated in Philadelphia in the manner I expected. The military men, and particularly one of them, ran away with all the glory of the day.
Scarcely a word was said of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2002
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THE BEGINNING OR THE END?
At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, September 15-17, 1787, James Madison penned these words:
“Whilst the last members were signing [the Constitution], Dr. [Benjamin] Franklin, looking towards the president’s chair, at the back of
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