Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Charles M. Sheldon wrote what has become a “classic” novel in 1896 called In His Steps. In short, the book told of a preacher who challenged the congregation where he preached to commit to a year of total submission of walking in the steps of Jesus. The challenge was to pause before making any
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Contributed by Gary Huckaby on May 22, 2003
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Man who sold the farm in Georgia.
I am reminded here of a country boy who grew up in the West Central Georgia area. He had grew up from a boy to manhood on his dad and mom’s farm. He left only to return after his parents had died and lived on this farm, letting it grow up in trees. For some thirty
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Have you seen those new GPS guidance systems that you can get for your car? Some are built in (for several thousand dollars) and some are portable. You can plug them into your lighter or cell phone connection in your car. Then you can touch the screen and tell it where you would like to go and it
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Contributed by Peter Schmidt on Nov 13, 2003
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Try doing this sometime. Take an empty 2-Liter bottle, and fill it up half way with just plain water, and the other half fill up with vegetable oil. Then try shaking that bottle up and mixing those two things together. What’s going to happen? Well, you can shake that bottle all day, but as soon as
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 3, 2010
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ADHESIVE OXYMORON
Why can’t we all just coexist?
You believe what you believe, I believe what I believe. Whatever you believe is whatever you believe.
Have you seen those "Coexist" bumper stickers? I always laugh when I see a "Coexist" bumper sticker. You know, the ones where a symbol from
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Contributed by Michael Biolsi on Apr 7, 2004
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NEW YORK (AP) — A man who paid $5 for a 19th-century painting he bought at a garage sale has sold it to a museum for $1 million, an art publication reported.
The unidentified 29-year-old actor found Joseph Decker’s (search) "Ripening Pears" wrapped in a blanket at a Los Angeles garage sale three
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Phillip Yancey said, "There is hope, much of which comes in the name of Christ. One telling statistic reveals the fruit of two centuries of faithful mission work: of India’s 700 million people, only 2.7 % call themselves Christian, and yet Christians are responsible for more than 18% of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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FAKING THE GRAIN
Wood craftsmen and finishers of fine furniture are not nearly as common to our times as they were 100 years ago. For that matter, they are not found as much today as they were around even 25 years ago.
Some of these men were literally artists when it came to taking an old piece
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 29, 2002
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RUTHLESS TRUST
During times of transition, what we most need to practice is "ruthless trust." Brennan Manning has written a brilliant book by that title and tells the story of John Kavanaugh who went to work for three months at "the House of the Dying" in Calcutta. He went not only to give help,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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A man dies and goes to heaven. Of course, St. Peter meets him at the pearly gates. St. Peter says, "Here’s how it works. You need 100 points to make it into heaven. You tell me all the good things you’ve done, and I give you a certain number of points for each item, depending on how good it was.
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Oct 15, 2019
You’re going to spend about 150,000 hours of your life working, which is about 40% of your waking hours. The average American spends 46 hours a week at work. If you’re a professional, you spend an average of 52 hours a week working and if you’re a small business owner/operator you work an average
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Oct 24, 2022
Saving Private Ryan is one of my favorite World War II movies. Three out of four brothers are killed in action, and then a search is launched to find the fourth, Private James Ryan, so that he is not killed, leaving his mother childless. Eight men are sent out to find Private Ryan, who is missing
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