Contributed by Troy Borst on Feb 17, 2004
ILLUSTRATION... US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/cesan.txt
What do we spend our money on?
1. Housing
2. Transportation
3. Food
4.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 22, 2008
ILLUSTRATION: The many uses of the word in English convince me that grace is indeed amazing—truly our last best word. It contains the essence of the gospel as a drop of water can contain the image of the sun. The world thirst for grace in ways it does not even recognize. . . “The world can do
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Brian Harvison on Nov 12, 2008
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EVERYBODY SMELLS US
You ever met someone that had no sense of smell? I have, and actually, an estimated 2.7 million people in the United States have an impaired or absent sense of smell. It's known as chronic olfactory dysfunction.
Most people I know can smell when there is a certain powerful
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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GIVES US SIGHT
An obstetrician approached an anxious father in the waiting room of a New York City hospital and said, "I am sorry to inform you, but your baby lived but two hours after his birth. We did everything we could to save his life." As the sympathetic doctor was about to leave, the quick
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jul 27, 2010
THE SABBATH SERVES US
A story is told of a wagon train of Christians traveling from St. Louis to Oregon. They observed the Sabbath day by stopping to rest and not traveling. But as winter approached some in the group began to panic that they would not reach Oregon before the snow fell. So they
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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Quote: A.W. Pink:
"He suffered hell for us so that we can enjoy heaven with Him.
He entered the awful Darkness, that I might walk in the Light;
He drank the cup of woe that I might
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Brethren
Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 24, 2012
STATISTICS ON ALCOHOL USE
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reports that per capita consumption of alcohol by Americans age 14 and older has dropped from 2.75 gallons in 1980 to 2.31 in 2007. Good news but consider the number who are addicted to drugs. Drug abuse continues
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Lead us not into temptation!
A driver tucked this note under the windshield wiper of his automobile for a police officer to read. "I've circled the block for 20 minutes. I'm late for an appointment, and if I don't park here, I'll lose my job. Forgive us our trespasses,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 20, 2009
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GOD'S NAME
God is not like a dog. Some dogs, as long as you show them affection or give them treats, they will come running and wag their tails and be just so excited. If we didn’t know there name we could call them "Fido" or "Ginger" or any name and they would respond. We could even call them
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Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Sep 24, 2007
The people of God:
Individuals, and in a state of distinctness from all the nations amongst which, in their calamitous dispersion, they are scattered; but they have no national existence -- no king, no country, no organization, no government, no political being. Just so the great community of
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Love then is the giving of self, and as long as we have a body and are working out our salvation, it will always be synonymous with sacrifice, in the Christian sense of the word. Love sacrifices naturally just as the eye sees and the ear hears. That is why we speak of "arrows" and "darts" of
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