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  • A While Ago My Wife Had A Job Evaluation From Her ...

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
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    A while ago my wife had a job evaluation from her employer. Her boss commended her for doing a good job, and she received a nominal raise in pay. Nothing that would change her lifestyle, but an increase in pay none the less. Upon leaving the evaluation she said to her boss, “Thank you for the ...read more

  • Corrie Ten Boom Was A Dutch Christian Who Helped ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Dec 30, 2007
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     | 1,920 views

    Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who helped Jews escape from the Nazis during World War II. Throughout her early life she helped hide people from the ugliness that is humanity at its worst. She was arrested and put into one concentration camp after another, one of which being a place named ...read more

  • Consistent Life

    Contributed by George Mansfield on Jan 1, 2008
     | 3,963 views

    CONSISTENT LIFE I recently heard of four scholars who were arguing over Bible translations. One said he preferred the King James Version because of its beautiful, eloquent old English. Another said he preferred the American Standard Bible for its literalism, the way it moves the reader from ...read more

  • Faith Is Knowing, Believing And Personally ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 14, 2008
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    FAITH IS KNOWING, BELIEVING AND PERSONALLY TRUSTING • Imagine a ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean it is filled with people and in the middle of the ocean there is an explosion. Many people lose their lives,, but a number are still alive. They begin to run to the lifeboats. • The 1st man though ...read more

  • A Horrifying Event Took Place In San Fran Last ...

    Contributed by Todd Pugh on Jan 14, 2008
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    A horrifying event took place in San Fran last week. A tiger escaped and mauled one man to death and seriously injured two others. They are not yet sure how the tiger got loose. But some of the evidence suggests the wall was too low and the victims were taunting the tiger. The zoo’s ...read more

  • I Am Reminded Of The Guy Who Shows Up At ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 11, 2008
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     | 2,714 views

    I am reminded of the guy who shows up at heaven’s gates. Peter asks him, “Did you do anything self-sacrificing or noteworthy to show that you loved God and loved others.” “Well,” he replied, “There was one thing. I saw an old lady that was being taunted and ridiculed and physically abused by a ...read more

  • We Must Not Be Troubled By Unbelievers When They ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 16, 2008
     | 1,458 views

    “We must not be troubled by unbelievers when they say that this promise of reward makes the Christian life a mercenary affair. There are different kinds of reward. There is the reward which has no natural connection with the things you do to earn it, and is quite foreign to the desires that ought ...read more

  • I Recently Heard A Story About A High School ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sullivan on Feb 18, 2008
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    I recently heard a story about a high school football player who was a Christian. He was a big fellow and a great athlete. He led his team to the best season they had ever had and won many awards. He was being interviewed and the reporter asked him this question, “You know you have the reputation ...read more

  • James S. Hewett, Former Pastor Of Saratoga, ...

    Contributed by R. David Reynolds on Mar 30, 2008
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    James S. Hewett, former pastor of Saratoga, California’s Presbyterian Church, tells this story: “A class of high school sophomores had been assigned a term paper. Now the day of reckoning had come, the papers were due. The teacher knew that a particular student, named Gene, had not been working ...read more

  • Lasting Impression

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 31, 2008
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    LASTING IMPRESSION A man was trying to convince an acquaintance that one individual can make a lasting impression on others. After a rather heated discussion his friend continued to doubt. To prove his point, the first man declared that he would introduce a new word into the English language. ...read more

  • The Need For Lights

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    THE NEED FOR LIGHTS Benjamin Franklin wanted to interest the people in Philadelphia in street lighting. He did not call a town meeting nor try to persuade the people by talking about it. He acted upon what he considered a good idea. He hung a beautiful lantern on a long bracket in front of his ...read more

  • Forgiveness Is A Choice And It Is Not Based On ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 7, 2008
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    "Forgiveness is a choice and it is not based on feelings." June Hunt in her book How to Forgive When You Don’t Feel Like it. She notes: “Clearly, not a single person on earth is immune from hurt and heartache. Still, that doesn’t mean we have to stay forever distressed, devastated by the ...read more

  • Why? Look At The Israelites, He Parted The Seas, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2008
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    Why? Look at the Israelites, he parted the seas, let them cross, while he blocked the Egyptians from attacking with pillars of fire, and when they were across, the Egyptians pursued them and he brought the walls of water down on them. Now think of it in another sense, think about it, he set our ...read more

  • According To The Rabbis, The Books Of Numbers ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 21, 2008
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     | 1,464 views

    "According to the Rabbis, the Books of Numbers and Deuteronomy are complementary to each other (comp. Tithe, Biblical Data); consequently there can be no contradiction between them. Thus there were three kinds of tithes: (1) that given to the Levites as stated in Num. xviii. 21 et seq., and termed ...read more

  • Signs And Wonders

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Apr 22, 2008
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    SIGNS AND WONDERS A person who is seeking for signs and wonders has turned God into a personal Genie in a Bottle. And because of that, when God fails to come through for them, they often turn away from Him completely. Ted Turner (the founder of CNN and some other enterprises) has been known to ...read more

  • On Meditation

    Contributed by Stephen Smarowsky on May 2, 2008
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    ON MEDITATION The Hebrew word translated "meditate" speaks of what a cow does after grazing all day. As she chews the cud over and over again, she extracts every nutrient. In other words, to meditate means to ponder a section of the Word day and night, extracting more from its inexhaustible supply ...read more

  • Pastor Avoid The Appearance Of Evil

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 9, 2008
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     | 2,710 views

    PASTOR AVOID THE APPEARANCE OF EVIL Personally and professionally, my wife Kendra knows that there are some things that I need to be very careful of violating as her husband and as a pastor. For example, being alone with member of the opposite sex is something I am very careful about not doing. ...read more

  • Promise?

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 9, 2008
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    PROMISE? We make a lot of promises to others and many promises are made to us. Sadly, too many promises are broken on both ends of the equation. God, however, never breaks a promise. ………………………………………………………….. Don’t let the broken promises of this world keep you from believing the promises of God. ...read more

  • We Know That Jesus Rose From The Dead. The ...

    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Jul 11, 2008
     | 2,224 views

    We know that Jesus rose from the dead. The resurrection is a historical event, not a myth or story. We know this from the empty tomb and the people who saw Christ physically alive. First, the women, and then the apostles, and then over five hundred people saw Christ alive after he rose from the ...read more

  • Ten Commandments: Statutes Of Liberty  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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     | 3,074 views

    TEN COMMANDMENTS: STATUTES OF LIBERTY In The Gospel and the American Dream, historian Bruce Shelley writes, "In one hand Liberty holds the torch of freedom and in the other the tablet of law. The torch challenges the forces of darkness and tyranny. The tablet of law reminds us that liberty ...read more

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