Contributed by Rick Crandall on Dec 24, 2005
*Just outside of Orlando last Sunday morning a Presbyterian minister died as he was preaching his sermon. Maybe you saw it in the paper. His name was Jack Arnold.
*And of course it was traumatic to the church...
-But the Associate Pastor later pointed out how wonderful it was that he died in his
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 29, 2012
A FAR, FAR BETTER THING
In Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, the young Frenchman Charles Darnay was condemned to die by the guillotine. When Sidney Carton learned of his friend’s situation, he determined to lay down his life in place of his friend. He determined to do this, not because he
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Contributed by Amanda Wilson on Oct 20, 2007
At high school, I had a sports teacher who was very good at teaching people how to do things. One day my sports class was in the gym and a good friend of mine, Pam, was on the big trampoline. I was standing waiting for my turn when this sports teacher came up and offered to teach Pam how to do more
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Tom Shepard on Dec 6, 2006
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WE SHOULD PRAISE GOD
I heard someone say recently that if the only thing God has done in our lives is to save us – we should praise God from the rising of the sun through the darkness of the night. But He has done so much more for us than that. He has given you the sense of taste – so that you
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Contributed by Mark Opperman on Jan 3, 2008
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-Let me use an illustration from physical science to give us some insight into the infilling of the HS. If you’ve ever done a speedometer check, then you are probably familiar with the formula for determining velocity or speed. When you take the distance traveled and divide it by the amount of time
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is
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Are you making your mom and dad proud of you? My three children have over the years always showed their appreciation by thanking my wife and I for all we have done for them. They also show their
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Charismatic
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jul 21, 2007
Zig Ziglar: “When you throw dirt at people you’re not doing a thing but losing ground.”
Chinese Proverb: “Let the man who says it cannot be done not disturb the man doing it.”
If you are a Christian, you can
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 27, 2008
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Ask a soldier what bravery is and he will tell you that bravery is not being without fear; it is doing what needs to be done in spite of your fear. Ask a saint of old what faith is and he will tell you it is “trusting God
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Slowly I have realized that I do not have to be qualified to do what I am asked to do. That I just have to go ahead and do it, even though I can’t do it as well as I think it ought to be done. This is
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