Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 6, 2007
Gregory Wiens writes: One afternoon while playing on a wooden picnic table, 4 1/2-year-old Jordon ran a splinter into his finger. Sobbing, he called his father (me) at the office. "I want God to take the splinter out," he said.
I told him his mother could remove it very easily. But he wanted
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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Jim Bakker’s book is titled "I Was Wrong." In the book, he admits not only to moral failure, but also acknowledges that he led many people astray by teaching theological error. He describes himself during that time of his life as ambitious and self-serving, and considered himself above
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Contributed by Martyn Baxter on Nov 23, 2008
That is us too, so often. We have the scriptures, we know of its authenticity and yet we fail to live by its teaching. We live in a land of plenty where we fail to go without all we need and more, look on your television sets at home for a reminder, yet we fail to give thanks. We experience the
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Methodist
Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 19, 2009
Finding God in Hardship
A dear friend of mine has been out of regular work for a couple of years. She has found enough temporary work to stay a float, but it has sometimes been a week-to-week challenge to pay the bills.
As we were talking the other day, she said to me, "I am walking through my
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 19, 2009
Learn from others. Learn from their mistakes. Learn from their advice. Ray was too self-centered to do that. He wasn’t seeking advice as much as wanting people to tell him that what he was thinking was right. He didn’t really want his father’s advisors to help him as much as he wanted them to agree
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Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 7, 2025
A pastor was teaching the Ten Commandments to a group of children.
When he came to “Thou shalt not steal,” he leaned forward and said, “Now, children, what would the cookie jar say to you if it could talk?”
A little girl lifted her hand and said, “It would say, ‘Suffer the little children to come
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What chain letters, many multi-level marketers and pyramid schemes have in common is this. They appeal to greed. It is the theology of Wall Street. In that film, Michael Douglas’ character, Gordon Gecko delivers this speech,
“…greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good. Greed is right.
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Methodist
Contributed by David Simpson on Jan 15, 2013
PEACE AND THE CHICKEN
As you and I well know, there are so many times when the circumstances around us are not peaceful. There is tension and turmoil that is so unsettling.
It reminds me of the chicken that fell out of the chicken truck a few years ago. I pulled into the church driveway one
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Christian Church
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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JESUS: THE TOTAL PACKAGE
Last week the Minnesota Timberwolves traded the superstar Kevin Garnett to the Boston Celtics in exchange for seven players. What does it feel like to know that you are worth seven men? Obviously KG, as he's known among NBA fans, must be pretty good. He is. He's the total
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In his book, Metamorpha, Kyle Strobel tells about a friend of his whose name is Cassie. Cassie was a first-year seminary student whose view of God had never been challenged. Suddenly, she found herself in a setting in which it seemed to her that her image of God was being dismantled. It was as
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