Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Sep 19, 2008
Most of us believe that we know what a tree needs in order to grow tall and strong and thus be able to produce enough oxygen to sustain animal and human life. We know to plant it in very rich healthy soil, we know to water it, and we know that it needs sunshine. This experiment was done, not to see
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Nov 12, 2008
WHAT DOES YOUR FAMILY PORTRAIT LOOK LIKE?
Looking at a family portrait, can you easily determine if the family is a happy, joyful family? The answer is no, we are all far to good actors in those photographs. If we were to take a true family portrait, the kids would have their hands around each
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
Someone wrote: WHAT IS YOUR GOD? "Whatever you love most, serve most, seek out most, give to the most, worship the most, and care about the most is your god. Your “god†can be your career, your bank account, the way you look, a particular position or degree, influence, power, or physical
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 23, 2009
Brennan Manning: "I learned what a wise old Franciscan told me the day I joined the Order -- 'Once you come to know the love of Jesus Christ, nothing else
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Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Mar 2, 2009
I will never forget what Missionary Bill Lewis told me on my last night in Tanzania in 1963. The national pastor, in whose hut we had been staying while on this particular mission safari, had killed his only pig and had used all the remaining rice in his storage bin to provide our supper that
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What we take, we also worship. The monks of Cluny used to remove their sandals before coming to communion–like
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Catholic
Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
Have you ever used a magnifying glass? What is the purpose of a magnifying glass?
A magnifying glass does several things: it makes the object look bigger thus making it easier to examine and see. It also brings the object into greater focus, enabling us to see detail we would not be able to see
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Contributed by Ajai Prakash on May 3, 2010
Many people have been richly blessed by what they learned at their mother’s knee. Consider John and Charles Wesley. Their names would probably never have lighted the pages of history if it hadn’t been for their godly mother who taught them that the law of love and Christian witness was to be their
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 15, 2010
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IT SHOWS YOU WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW
Robert Phillips (Biblical Preaching Journal/Winter 1994, wrote of his first college course in chemistry. His first exam came after one week. Of the twelve in the class 6 got "D's" and six failed. The professor told them, "I did not give you this test so that you
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Contributed by Paul Barreca on Dec 29, 2012
When a couple is in conflict, you find what you are looking for. If you are looking to find fault with your wife, you will find it! If you are looking to find fault with another church member, you will find it. If you are convinced that someone or a some group of people are snobish, or rude, or
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2002
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Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
John Eldridge,
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Contributed by Lynn Malone on Aug 8, 2005
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I like what the great evangelist D. L. Moody said about Moses—“Moses spent his first forty years thinking he was somebody. He spent his second forty years finding out he was a nobody. He
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Methodist
So what about us? We call ourselves Christians, that is followers of Jesus. What kind of disciples are we? Do we have a purely academic interest in the words of Jesus, or are we prepared to put him first in our lives? Are we ready to fish for
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 4, 2010
What a shame to miss out on things. I would give anything to have a new opportunity to buy Ryan’s stock (a local restaurant in Greenville, S.C. that went national) when it first came out in my home town! I missed that one. But to
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Contributed by Ted Mulder on Dec 30, 2004
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When you wait to buy what you need – not getting weary in doing well – many times you are in place for a miracle. Last month we gave more than what we had in our giving budget. We knew that was what we were suppose to do, but it caused our clothing budget to dip too low and Joanne was telling me
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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What happens when we learn about a really bad guy repenting? It happens all the time in prison ministry, yet many of us think those people aren’t worth saving. They had more chances than most of us are willing to give them, yet God hasn’t given up on them.
Jeffrey Dahmer was a convicted murderer
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