Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Aug 27, 2003
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In the movie “City Slickers,” Billy Crystal plays a confused, dissatisfied thirty-something character with a vague sense that life is passing him by. Jack Palance- ancient, leathery, wise to the ways of the world (“a saddlebag with eyes”) – asks Crystal if he would like to know the secret of
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Nazarene
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 8, 2004
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Many of these rules for evaluating the behavior and social skills of children in public schools are exemplery for how Christians should behave in the church family:
Caring Cooperative Respectful
Classroom •
Being inclusive • Thoughfful, kind• Recognize feelings• Understand others’ feelings
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by David Trexler on Jan 14, 2005
I am a big country and western fan. And there is a song by John Michael McGomery called "Little Girl." I know this may sound harsh, but sadly enough it does happen. The song talks about the hard life of a poor little girl, a life that no little child should ever have to experience. Her mother
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Lutheran
Contributed by Curt Cizek on Feb 25, 2003
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Who has ever heard of Harriet Tubman before? Her story is an exciting one. She was a runaway slave who was able to get to the north with the help of some sympathetic people both white and black. She was so thankful for the help that she had received that she decided to risk her own life to
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Lutheran
Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Apr 18, 2003
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Let me make sure that we clear up a few misunderstandings about forgiveness. Before we can build, we have to blast. We have to blast away the erroneous thoughts on what forgiveness is not.
· When you forgive a person, this does not mean you are immediately healed.
· When you forgive a person, this
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Jim Luthy on Apr 28, 2003
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Dallas Willard, in his excellent book, The Divine Conspiracy, writes about what the church would look like if we were as inclusive as this band of believers that Jesus led:
“If I, as a recovering sinner myself, accept Jesus’ good news, I can go to the mass murderer and say, ‘You can be blessed in
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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Many wives think it’s really just sex. Marriage and family therapist, Dr. Klayne Rasmussen, says men really want 3 basic things. (1) To know he is still attractive to his wife, even well past his Adonis prime. To most men, being sexually attractive is more than just being sexual. In essence it
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Contributed by Todd Stiles on Dec 14, 2006
You see, our presence is really the best way to reveal our love. (Don’t worry, kids, I’m not encouraging your parents to boycott presents, but I do want to make a point.) And I can say this from experience, for when I was a kid our home was burglarized just before Christmas one year. Man, was I
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Baptist
Contributed by Randall Bergsma on Dec 19, 2006
Lets be honest, there are things we face in our lives, and times when we are afraid.
Your newly married and your thinking “What did I get myself into? I don’t know what I’m doing.
”You have a friend in trouble and you think “I don’t know what to say!”
You’re in your job and you think, “Why did
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by David Moore on Jan 16, 2007
A 6 year girl in our church had the greatest insight.
While remodeling the back of there house, an old piano became the subject of conversation. Being an upright piano the kids had grown to like the looks of it. Because it had been in a room that was exposed to the differences of hot and cold
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Pentecostal
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CASUAL CHRISTIANS
Barna defines these folks as those who perceive their Christianity as "faith in moderation. It allows them to feel religious without having to prioritize their faith. Christianity is a low-risk, predictable proposition..., providing a faith perspective that is not demanding. A
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
VICTOR FRANKL: PRISONER STORY
Victor Frankl was a Viennese psychiatrist whose entire family was captured and kept in Concentration camps in Nazi Germany. While Frankl was being held prisoner his father, mother and wife all died in camps. Only Frankl’s sister and himself survived.
Dr. Frankl has
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Baptist
Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 27, 2009
I sat in a courtroom as a witness for the motel I was working for, and, we were waiting on our case to come up, and one of the cases that was presented, was a man who stole food from a grocery store, and the reason he gave was that he and his family were hungry. Now, it is a terrible thing that we
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Baptist
I WAS THE LAMB
Every summer when I was a child, my family would make the trip from Texas to New Jersey to see my dad’s parents. They lived in a fascinating two-story house in which all the bedrooms were upstairs. The room I slept in had a single bed, and above the bed was a picture of Jesus. You
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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