Contributed by David Butcher on Nov 12, 2006
The status of good credentials can be seen in many different ways, being able to flash the ‘Gold Card’ was at one time good. Now the banks have Platinum Cards and no doubt someone will come up with
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 5, 2012
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Too often, churchgoers can become “spiritual hitchhikers”.
Have you ever been driving along the road when suddenly you saw a hitchhiker ahead?
What’s the universal symbol of the hitchhiker? (his thumb)
His thumb signal is giving a message loud and clear,
"If you will furnish the car, the
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
I can imagine this conversation in Heaven
It starts with me
Lord, I have sinned, I have done this awful thing and I pray for you to forgive me
As I pray God is listening and He says
Look at that filth, he disgusts me
His life is full of sin makes me want to puke
How dare he approach my holy throne
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Baptist
Contributed by Gene Barron on Jan 19, 2002
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Finances can be a great challenge for all of us. Or, perhaps I should say, MOST of us. One guy said: “I never worry about money. I have enough to last me the rest of my life – unless I buy something.” Maybe you heard me tell before about the wife who had been working over next year’s budget,
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RICH SO YOU CAN BE GENEROUS
While I’m not a proponent of the health and wealth gospel, I find verses 8-11 of 2 Cor. 9 to be nothing short of amazing in terms of a Biblical promise. How else would you interpret words like these? "You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 12, 2009
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"NOW WE CAN START OVER"
Thomas Edison’s manufacturing facilities in West Orange, N.J., were heavily damaged by fire one night in December 1914. Edison lost almost $1 million worth of equipment and the record of much of his work. The next morning, walking about the charred embers of his hopes and
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 4, 2001
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Illus.: “You Can’t Practice Burying Me”
Shortly after a recent seminary graduate had assumed his first pastorate, he and his wife went to visit his family. His mother sensed that her daughter-in-law was unhappy, but not wishing to interfere, she pretended not to notice. As they were leaving,
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Brian Menear on Mar 29, 2007
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Discipline can be painful for anyone especially from a church they love. All discipline serves a purpose especially for a Christian who has committed a sin.
A young child accidentally took sleeping pills from the medicine cabinet. The Dr. told the family to keep the child awake for the next 8
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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What can little things do?
In 1871 in Chicago a big city,
there developed a big tragedy.
But it all happened from a bunch of little things.
One little lady was out
milking one little cow early in the morning.
There was one little lamp of oil burning.
One little flickering flame in the little
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Terry Cavanaugh on Feb 16, 2005
Can there be a crime more diabolical than the murder of a child.
We can not stomach abuse to children. Have you heard the story of Eric Sellers.
Eric shook his 4 pound baby so hard that he snapped the infants thigh bone. The judge told him "Your actions tell me you’re not the father of this
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Methodist
Contributed by Larry Vinson on Aug 4, 2008
Tetrullian, who can be described as an early church father once said, “How beautiful, then, the marriage of two Christians, two who are one in home, one in desire, one in the way of life they follow, one in the religion they practice. . . . Nothing divides them either in flesh or in spirit. . . .
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Contributed by Brian Atwood on Jan 7, 2008
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Michael Yaconelli, co-founder of the Christian Publishing Company, "Youth Specialties," wrote the following in his book, "Messy Spirituality."
For a period of time, we were lucky enough to have a housekeeper. She would come in once a week to dust, vacuum, and clean every little out-of-the-way
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