Contributed by Nigel Heath on Jan 20, 2010
In fact, our relationships are more important to us than any anything else.
Example Evidence for this, if we need it, can be found in such things as the last messages sent or spoken by those who knew they were about to die in the 9/11 plane crashes. The final messages were all expressions of
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
After going on a diet, a woman was really feeling good about herself, especially when she was able to fit into a pair of jeans she had outgrown long ago. "Look, look!" she shouted while running downstairs to show her husband. "I can wear my old jeans again!"
Her husband looked at her for a long
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Brethren
Contributed by John Putty on Mar 19, 2011
FRANK BOYD ON REVIVAL
Frank M. Boyd, an early Pentecostal instructor, said, "He expected all the students to be more filled with fire and love and zeal and more filled with the Spirit when they left than when they came. He said that when men had the Word without the Spirit they were often dead
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Contributed by Don Hawks on Jul 5, 2007
There’s a story about a hiker who encounters a man in the forest who’s furiously swinging his axe at a tree.
Whack! Whack! Whack!
The hiker observes for a minute and says: “Man, why don’t you stop for a moment to rest and sharpen your axe? You’ll be happy you did when you’re able to chop more
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Methodist
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Aug 20, 2007
In 1986 Tom Hanks & Shelly Long starred in a movie called "The Money Pit." It’s a film “for everyone who’s ever been deeply in Love or deeply in debt.” One of my favorite lines: “Here lies Walter Fielding. He bought a house and it killed him.” Disagreements over money cause marital failures, church
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
Some words of wisdom for parents (and children):
• Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. – Erma Bombeck
• The most common fallacy among women (and men – in my humble opinion) is that simply having children makes them a mother (a father), which is as absurd as believing that
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Jan 4, 2008
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When it came to fishing, Simon, son of Jonah, appears to have been an angler of dubious ability. There is no record that he ever caught a fish without divine intervention. Most likely, the accounts of those miraculous catches were included in the gospels to assure readers that there was a similar
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Free Methodist
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” Whatever our gifts are and whatever
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
But, when I was preparing my studies of this story, I came across a saying of one of the older preachers, who observed that, although little could be said for this blind man, there was this one thing: he was at least in a place where Jesus was likely to go. He was by the gate leading into the
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Contributed by Anne Benefield on May 28, 2008
Reverend Marsh writes:
When I was a boy making the morning fires in the fireplace, sometimes, as I cleared away the ashes, I would find some glowing embers from the fire of the night before. I would lay some kindling wood on the coals and blow gently until it glowed bright red and then burst
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 12, 2009
CALL ON ANOTHER LINE
My son, Scott, an insurance broker in Florida, loves ocean fishing and takes his cell phone along on the boat. One morning we were drifting about ten miles offshore as Scott discussed business on the phone. Suddenly his rod bent double, and the reel screamed as line poured off
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by D Marion Clark on Nov 15, 2010
"I THINK YOU'VE SEEN JESUS."
The real putting off and putting on is not so much about our determination to make improvements but about giving ourselves over to our Lord to do the real work in our lives.
In the children's book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, there is a particularly bad boy named
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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I personally, really enjoy eating fruit. And the older I get, the more I learn about the advantages of including a healthy portion of fruit in my diet. For example, did you know that one cup of strawberries gives you 140% of your daily recommended vitamin C. Strawberries. That beats broccoli and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2001
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British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge once had a discussion with a man who firmly believed that children should not be given formal religious instruction, but should be free to choose their own religious faith when they reached maturity. Coleridge did not disagree, but later invited the man into his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 4, 2001
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What would you be willing to do for $10,000,000-00? In their book, The Day America Told the Truth, James Patterson and Peter Kim reveal some shocking statistics about how far people in this country are willing to go for ten million.
Would abandon their entire family (25%)
Would abandon their
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Contributed by Gary Merillat on Jun 4, 2001
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A young girl had to pass through a bad neighborhood. As she went down a dark street she noticed a shadowy figure stalking her. She was gripped with fear, but to her relief the stalker did not attack. Later, she read of another young lady who was attacked that same night in that same place. The
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 1, 2001
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Martin Luther wrote, “I study my Bible like I gather apples. First, I shake the whole tree that the ripest may fall. Then I shake each limb, and when I have shaken each limb, I shake each branch and every twig. Then I look under every leaf. I search the Bible as a whole like shaking the whole tree.
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Church Of God
Contributed by Tim George on Sep 17, 2001
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A sailor once took a group of young people boating for the day. One young man bragged the whole way about all he knew about the sea. Every time the sailor began to give instructions this young man would interrupt with his supposed knowledge. After some time a squall blew up. The sailor began to
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