Contributed by Don Hawks on Feb 28, 2002
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Asking God to give us our daily bread should not encourage us to stand around waiting for it to
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2002
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Have you heard the classic short story by O’Henry, "The Gift of the Magi?"
The story is about a young married couple who are very much in love. Christmas is approaching and neither one has enough money to buy the other a Christmas gift. Each one does have one prized possession that they hold dear
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Contributed by Peter Amerman on May 25, 2005
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One other comment I would like to make about Miriam’s leadership. I believe that we as a church need to affirm and draw out the gifts of leadership in more of the women in our church. God commended the leadership of Moses and Aaron together with the leadership of Miriam. In contrast with other
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Don Hutto on Jan 27, 2001
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Years ago, my youngest daughter, Marilyn, and I went shopping for Connie. It’s hard. You wives, it’s hard for a man to shop for his wife because we don’t know what you want, and we don’t want to get that for you, anyway.
But Marilyn and I thought we had found the perfect gift: a nightgown. You can
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Baptist
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A woman missionary in the South Pacific Islands was explaining to a group of children the custom and significance of giving gifts at Christmas. "Giving gifts," she said, "expresses love and reminds us of the perfect gift of love we received from God: Jesus."
Later that week, a young native
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
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In the movie “Facing The Giants” the coach challenges one of the players to give his best effort. The young player says that he will – but the coach pushes him to promise to give it everything he’s got. The player promises that he will give his best effort. To ensure that he will "give it all he’s
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 3, 2011
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THE FRIENDSHIP OF JOHN NEWTON
While John Newton is best-known as the author of the famous hymn, "Amazing Grace," his life teemed with spiritual fruit. A new biography on his life by Jonathan Aitken gives us a peek into the legacy of the man who described himself with one simple sentence: "I am a
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mike Gilbert on Nov 21, 2007
The notorious can of Spam that gets passed along at our annual Christmas White Elephant Gift Exchange Party more than likely won’t be detectable as a can of spam in how it’s wrapped. Otherwise, no one would pick it as the gift they choose to open or barter with. It’s the same with many gifts.
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Baptist
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 24, 2007
Someone has said, “Worry is a thin stream of fear that trickles through the mind, which, if encouraged, will cut a channel so wide
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Other
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Lisa Marino has a personal fitness coach who gives her advice and encouragement. But she’s never seen him. As a participant in a program called, “Life Practice,” Lisa begins each day by sending a report of her diet, exercise, sleep, and stress to an Internet web site. Later she receives an e-mail
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Pentecostal
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Arthur John Gossip was a great preacher in the Church of Scotland. When he was pastor at Beechgrove Church in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1927 he suddenly lost his beloved wife. The following Sunday he preached perhaps the greatest sermon of the Twentieth Century “When Life Tumbles In, What Then?”
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Methodist
Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jan 28, 2011
MASTER AND COMMANDER: HOLD FAST
You may have seen that Russell Crowe film, Master and Commander, Now there’s a battle scene in it, (pp) where one of the old salts just prior to boarding the enemy ship puts his knuckles out in front of him and the young midshipmen looking on is greatly encouraged
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Tony Abram on Sep 9, 2006
Hospitals have been named after Good Samaritan, the person in this story
In the USA "Good Samaritan" laws have been passed
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