Contributed by Donny Granberry on Apr 20, 2008
I remember when our children were small, and Marlys and I would set them in a high chair and feed them. OK, Marlys more than me.
If they did not want to eat, you could put all the food in their mouth you wanted, but they would spit it out. Also, if we tried to feed them something they did not want,
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on May 9, 2008
“Her Day”
She cooked the breakfast first of all,
Washed the cups and plates,
Dressed the children and made sure
Stockings all were mates.
Combed their hair and made their beds,
Sent them out to play.
Gathered up their motley toys,
Put some books away.
Dusted chairs and mopped the stairs,
Ironed
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Leonard Sweet stated in his book The Jesus Prescription for a Healthy Life said this: "The promise of God is health and wellness. Faith in God is physically good for you. Denying God is bad for your health. The first undisputed mention of disease in the Bible includes the words 'I am the Lord who
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 18, 2008
On the other side of the equation, John Piper observes: “This was one of Luke’s great passions—that Christians use their possessions for the needs of others and not just for their own comforts. Luke alone tells the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30–37). Luke alone tells the parable of the
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 8, 2008
Anger Irony
Bad weather had backed up all flights, and as a result our plane sat on the runway for three hours. All attempts to placate the passengers weren’t working. Then the pilot came on the intercom to announce his umpteenth update: "Folks, we'll be getting permission to take off, but I have
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Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Sep 20, 2008
In the not so distant past, was a movement that swept across the country that was started by former Colorado University football coach Bill McCartney, called Promise Keepers. It started small, but before long, hundreds of thousands of men would gather for huge conferences that focused on men
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I remember a Youth Minister saying years ago "My problem is not motivating people; My problem is people DE-motivating me!" From years in ministry I have learned the hard way that People will disappoint you. People will oppose you. People will see themselves in competition with you. Sometimes in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
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A.D. 110. Ignatius, overseer of the church in Antioch, was arrested and sent to Rome for preaching Christ. Facing martyrdom, he wrote this to the church at Rome.
"Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing of visible or invisible things so that I may but win Christ. Let fire and the cross,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2009
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In one of Dr. James Dobson’s 2008 newsletters, he writes:
"Some years ago, executives of a greeting-card company decided to do something special for Mother’s Day. They set up a table in a federal prison, inviting inmates to send a free card to their Mom. The lines were so long they had to make
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 8, 2009
Bruce Thielemann, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, told of a conversation with an active layman, who mentioned, “You preachers talk a lot about giving, but when you get right down to it, it all comes down to basin theology.”
Thielemann asked, “Basin theology? What’s that?”
The
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 26, 2009
We are having some difficult times, and people are struggling, but there are some things we need to realize and remember this morning.
“A few centuries ago, 4/5s of the French spent 90% of their income for food. With only what you and I consider a marginal tip to a waitress, they had to provide
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 17, 2009
If you really want to earn the respect of others, you begin by respecting yourself. This means doing what is right in God’s eyes. Not cutting corners. Not engaging in lifestyles and activities that you know would be wrong in God’s eyes. Lying, cheating, stealing, being selfish, outbursts of rage
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I met a man who told me he was celebrating his birthday this month. I asked him what day. He replied, "I don’t know what day my actual birthday is on." He said that he was so old that when he was born there was no such thing as a birth certificate and that he had so many siblings his parents just
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Contributed by Daniel Olukoya on Apr 10, 2009
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Somebody once said that life was like an onion: you can peel off one layer at a time but as you do so, its juice gets into your eyes and causes your eyes to be filled with tears. There is something that is known as the trouble of life. I read a comment by one man of God called Matthew Henry.
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 11, 2009
“Your Secret Sins Will Come to Light”
The newspapers of Cincinnati recorded that a poorly dressed woman went to Dr. George Herman asking him to make an X-ray examination of her heart free of cost. She claimed that she was very poor and couldn’t pay.
The doctor consented to do the work. But when
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SAVED AND SAVING - D. L. Moody shared this:
One day I saw a steel engraving that I liked very much. I thought it was the finest thing I ever had seen, at the time, and I bought it. It was a picture of a woman coming out of the water, and clinging with both arms to the cross. There she came out
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