Contributed by Sermon Central on May 14, 2012
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HOPE IN THE STORM
Fresh out of Oxford, John Wesley was perplexed over England's complicated social problems: slavery, economic uncertainties, corruption, drunkenness, gambling, and prostitution. This deeply religious, sensitive soul became a parish minister and, subsequently, a missionary to
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 13, 2012
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THE ENDURING FROG
We can flourish and develop in new ways or we can drown in despair.
Story from India: One night two frogs found themselves in a dairy. Hopping and jumping around as frogs do they both jumped into a milk pail half full of milk.
After swimming around for some time they tried to
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Contributed by Francis Balla on Aug 24, 2012
Let me read one of Aesop’s Greek fables; In the forest, there lived four oxen. They were very good friends and always went together to graze in the fields. However, every time they went, a hungry lion tried to attack them. The lion longed for their meat. But they withstood his attack by fighting
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 20, 2013
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NEVER SATISFIED
Some people are never happy. A Jewish lady's grandson is playing in the water, she is standing on the beach not wanting to get her feet wet, when all of a sudden, a huge wave appears from nowhere and crashes directly over the spot where the boy is wading.
The water recedes and
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 9, 2022
Where does the expression “jumpin’ Jehoshaphat!” come from? A reader wrote in to ask, and I had a lovely time trying to figure it out. No one is sure how Jehoshaphat’s name ended up in this interjection, or why he’s jumping, but there are several interesting possibilities.
This mild oath first
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 28, 2024
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JAMES 1:21 - "Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you."
A person must put off every dirty thing and lay it off to the side away from himself. If he enjoys the dirt and filth, then his mind is
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Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Oct 25, 2024
And this from the Revelation to John at Patmos: Jesus words to the angel of the church at Pergamum give us the view of God as to what happened in Numbers chapters 22-25, and why God was angry with Balaam. Balaam was a deceiver.
“But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 4, 2001
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"The idea that ’the Spirit can work somehow,’ that God can bring something out of it if we just sort of throw it out there, is unjustifiable from those who aim to know the living God and can see his integrity and dedication to quality
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Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 31, 2000
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Listen to the words of a Minister who ended up with a ruined marriage and a ruined ministry after a one night stand "adultery isn’t something that happens with the act -- it happens months beforehand. It’s an attitude. You disconnect
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Mark Hensley on Oct 18, 2000
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Derrick Thomas the late defensive end of the Kansas City Chiefs wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, earlier this year when he lost control of his car on an icy highway. He was ejected as was another passenger, and both died from their injuries, a friend
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 28, 2001
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In 1995 Nathan Frederick Klimosko, 21, was sentenced to two years’ probation in Kelowna, British Columbia, for hitting and choking his girlfriend into unconsciousness. The fight started in a car when the two disagreed over his interpretation of a certain passage from the
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