Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
How do you maintain humility? Success can sometimes dazzle you in the achieving, but there’s usually someone around to help you keep perspective. TV anchorman Tom Brokaw has a story about that:
Brokaw was wandering through Bloomingdale’s in New York one day, shortly after he was promoted to
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Contributed by Rob Clifton on May 23, 2001
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"You have established a new relationship with the powers of darkness. Whatever you were before you were a Christian- straight, horoscope reader, witch, warlock, or satanist- you are now a sworn foe of the legions of hell. Have no delusions about their reality or their hostility, but do not fear
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Be different if you dont have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets out that you can listen when others
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 13, 2014
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You Have to Stop Trying to Save Yourself
Watchman Nee relates a story from one of his experiences as a Christian leader in China. A group of young Christian brothers were gathered together to take a swim in one of the many creeks that run throughout the countryside there. Since most were not good
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Contributed by Fred Sigle on Nov 9, 2006
Families can live in the same house and never see each other. The sad thing is, you wake up to a beautiful HOME, a nice manicured LAWN, two cars in the GARAGE—something you WORKED HARD all of your life to get.
Now the house is COLD, EMPTY, the children GONE and the HUSBAND and WIFE hardly
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 3, 2009
"A sense of humor costs nothing, but not having one can be very costly."
This quote is from a book entitled Laugh, Lead, and Profit: Building Productive Workplaces with Humor, by Bob Ross. If
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 1, 2001
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In America, Bibles are everywhere. You can find them in grocery stores, prisons, and motel rooms. They’re available in all sizes, shapes, translations, and versions, leather bound or paperback. Every year the Bible outsells every other major book. Last year 500 million Bibles were published in
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 12, 2001
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A slight omission can bring serious consequences. There is an English Proverb which fits well here:
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
For want of the shoe, the horse was lost;
For want of the horse, the rider was lost;
For want of the rider, the battle
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Wesleyan
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One can change the time on a clock either by moving the hands or by moving the main wheel. And just as it is better to change the time by moving the inner mechanism, so it is better to move a man - whether oneself or another person--by influencing his consciousness.
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Dana Chau on Sep 7, 2001
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A false identify can produce an opposite example. When asked of Dr. Martin Luther King whether it’s true that black people are lazy, over-sexed and got rhythm. Dr. King replied, "Yes, it’s true. If you tell people that for two hundred years that they are lazy, over-sexed,
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Contributed by James Wilson on Sep 13, 2001
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Christmas shopping, though fun, can be difficult. Did you hear about the guy that
bought his wife a beautiful diamond ring for Christmas? A friend of his said, "I
thought she wanted one of those sporty 4-Wheel drive
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Baptist
Contributed by Michael Elmore on Nov 29, 2001
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A wonderful illustration of how our lives can be transformed by God’s peace is found in the life of Archbishop of the Chicago diocese, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin’s. In his little book, The Gift of Peace, which he was working hard to complete just a year ago, there is a gripping and moving account of
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Methodist