Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Mar 4, 2002
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A ship’s captain looked into the dark night and saw faint lights in the distance. Immediately he told his signalman to send this message: “Alter your course 10 degrees south.”
A prompt message came in return, “Alter your course 10 degrees north.”
Captain angered that his command had been ignored
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 13, 2002
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LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
In his book, First Things First, author Stephen Covey writes about Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychologist who survived the death camps of Nazi Germany. Frankl made a startling discovery about why some survived the horrible conditions and some did not.
"He looked at several
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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There are some events you’d just rather not be a part of.
For example, on November 2, 2002, a coalition of atheist organizations (such as American Atheists, the Young Atheist Society, and the Institute for Unicorn Research) will be sponsoring the “Godless Americans March on Washington”. After so
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 3, 2002
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BUT I MIGHT OVERDRAFT....
A Massachusetts doctor and Harvard graduate has been suspended for leaving a patient on the operating table midway through spinal surgery so he could deposit a check at his local bank, according to an Aug. 8 Reuters story.
The state board of medicine said David Arndt, an
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Contributed by Mike Leiter on Jan 15, 2003
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EVERY POSSIBLE PREDICAMENT
For every possible predicament of man, there is a
corresponding grace of God. In other words: For every
particular human need there is a particular supernatural resource. For every definite problem there is a definite answer. For every hurt there is a cure. For every
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Contributed by Rick Stacy on Sep 17, 2007
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Mike Freeman, an Elder here at MCC, shared this with me this past week. When he was finishing up his college he had an opportunity to do his internship at a really swanky resort in Missouri or to do it a children’s camp called Spring Hill in upper Michigan.
The resort was one of these all
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 15, 2002
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I SERVE, GOD DOES
Humility in leadership can be achieved if one learns to view his role as a simple service to others. Indeed, this is the very essence of leadership: giving energy, not receiving it. And perhaps the surest way to ensure such an outward flow of energy is to think of oneself
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 14, 2010
EASTER IN AN ANTI-GOD RALLY
During the early 1920's, a Communist leader named Nikolai Bukharin was sent from Moscow to Kiev to address an anti-God rally. For an hour, he abused and ridiculed the Christian faith until it seemed as if the whole structure of belief was in ruins. Then questions were
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LISTEN TO THE WORD OF GOD
I witnessed something similar to this on an airplane once. I kept hearing outbursts of laughter. The flight was turbulent and bumpy, hardly a reason for humour. But some fellow behind me was cracking up. No one else, just him.
Finally I turned to see what was so funny.
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Contributed by David Parks on Sep 18, 2006
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The Amazing Providence of God
In the late 1800’s a member of Britain’s Parliament went to Scotland to make a speech. He got off the train in Edinburgh, and then took a carriage south toward his destination. Unfortunately, the carriage became stuck in deep mud. A local farm boy came to the
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Nov 15, 2006
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Illus.: “God’s Loving Son”
A certain rich man died and left no heirs. When his household goods were auctioned off, an elderly lady dressed in shabby garments was the only one to bid on the picture of the dead man’s son. It had been greatly cherished by the wealthy father because his only child
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Wesleyan
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