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In his book Dare to Believe, Dan Baumann illustrates the unique experience of knowing that something is ours, yet longing to enjoy it more fully. He explained that at Christmas time he would always do a lot of snooping, trying to find the gift --wrapped presents and figure out what was in them.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mike Leiter on Nov 11, 2001
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I believe the old adage is correct that says: The five most important words are “You did a good job.” The four most important words are, “What is your opinion?” The three most important words are, “Let’s work together” The two most
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Vineyard
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Nov 29, 2001
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Have you noticed that the more mature believers have a greater capacity to see hidden blessings in hardships and difficult subjects? Norm Cousins, a teacher at the Univeristy of Calif. Medical School in Los Angeles, noticed an amazing irony in his younger students’ perceptions. It seems that
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
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I believe in miracle, but not too much miracle, for too much miracle would weaken us, make us dependent on miracle instead of our obedience to natural law. Just enough miracle to let us know he is there, but not too much, lest we depend on it when we should depend on our own initiative and on his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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How many believe that Timothy McVeigh was guilty of the OKC bombing? Did you know no witnesses watched Timothy McVeigh load explosives into a Ryder rental truck, drive the vehicle to the front of the federal building in Oklahoma City, detonate the bomb. Yet he was convicted of that crime.
While
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Many people believe Michael Jordan was the best basketball player to ever play the game. In 1991 when Jordan’s popularity was at its highest, the sports drink Gatorade came out with a new advertising campaign aimed specifically at young people. The slogan was “I wanta be like Mike.” The commercial
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You might find this hard to believe but one vicar, William Haslam became a Christian through his own sermon – and from that very experience the 19th Century Cornish Revival was born
William Haslam was a high church Anglican vicar in Cornwall in the 19th Century.
In 1851, he had gone to stay
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Anglican
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
George Barna found that most Americans believe that salvation is an outcome to be earned through their good character or behavior. 57 % believe that “if a person is generally good, or does enough good
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Contributed by Peter Bines on Jan 22, 2008
The Christian believer has to say – even in our multi-faith environment - that no other so-called Saviour will do! We need a sin-bearer. Can Mohammed be our sin-bearer; or Confucious, or Moses, or any other religious leader? No, only One who was both God and Man can bridge the great divide that our
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by David Moore on Mar 20, 2008
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It’s hard to believe that body snatching is still going on. Of course during the 17th and early 18th centuries, body snatching was rife. A growing number of anatomists, keen to improve their medical knowledge, needed corpses on which to conduct dissections, bodies were difficult to come by, as it
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Baptist