Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Afterlife
An elderly couple passed away and found themselves at the pearly gates. Peter was there to welcome them. First he showed them their mansion. The man overwhelmed by the sheer luxury of it all asked, "How much does this place cost per night?" Peter replied, "Sir, this is Heaven, it doesn’t
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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He did so with Desmond Tutu in South Africa. Jim Wallis tells the story of a visit he made during the days of apartheid.
i. I see it happening all over the country and I’ve learned a lot about hope from the streets and I’ve learned a lot about hope in other places. I saw hope happening in South
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Several years ago I heard a father talk about something that his wife would do to encourage their son. I liked it, and I adopted it. Let me tell you about it.
My son Kyle is seven, and we have a little ritual that we like to go through. It’s a moment that he and I often share. But every so often,
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 23, 2009
HABITUAL OFFENDERS
In the world of criminal prosecution, sometimes an individual has a track record of crime; if so, they may try to prosecute him/her as a "habitual offender." As a result, the individual will spend more time in jail because the courts have decided that crime is a way of life for
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
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TENTH HOURS
Napoleon said that in every battle there [is] a period of ten or fifteen minutes which decides the issue of the conflict. Certainly in the battle of life there are moments and hours which, so far as we can tell, determine our history: hours when the spirit in which we lived, the step
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Contributed by John Rollyson on Mar 27, 2009
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The Great philosopher Plato:
"Two things cannot be held together without a third; they must have some bond of union. And the fairest bond is that which most completely fuses and is fused into the things which
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YOU SHOWED ME
The young woman was married and had two beautiful children, but one day as she was standing over the sink, washing dishes, she thought, "There must be more to life than this."
When her husband came home, he found a note she’d written and he began to weep. She would call him about
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 6, 2009
I read a story of a pastor whose son began to drift away from God in high school. The son started to hang out with the wrong crowd changing his actions and attitude. The parents, of course, were broken-hearted. They were embarrassed. But they didn’t hide this. They cried out to God with God’s
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