Contributed by Doug Lyon on Sep 11, 2004
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Christian author Joyce Landorf wrote a book entitled, Tough and Tender: What Every Woman Wants In A Man. In one chapter she mentions a man she calls George, who worked at her husband’s bank. George was recently divorced. And he was leading a lifestyle of sexual liberation. If anybody looked
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Contributed by David Rumley on Nov 8, 2006
THE AUDACITY TO BELIEVE… (This portion based on Rob Bell’s Nooma video called Dust)
Why would Peter have the audacity to believe He could do what Jesus was doing? How would he believe in God and believe in himself enough to know he too could walk on water?
To understand this we must understand
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Pentecostal
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SHELTER OF DREAMS
But how can a dream realistically provide shelter? I give you the example of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr whose dream for equality is still providing shelter today.
His dream came to the forefront of American politics when the Montgomery Bus Boycott forced the Supreme Court to rule
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 5, 2001
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THE BIG RETURN ON FAITHFULNESS
It was a stormy night in Birmingham, England, and Hudson Taylor was to speak at a meeting at the Severn Street schoolroom. His hostess assured him that nobody would attend on such a stormy night, but Taylor insisted on going. "I must go even if there is no one but
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Contributed by Jason Wall on Jun 21, 2004
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Since its Father’s Day I would like to share with you two things that you will never hear a man say on Father’s Day. You would never hear a father say to his son, “…here are the keys to my brand new truck, and here is my platinum Master Card… go wild!” And you would never hear a father say to his
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 12, 2007
Back when I was a teen, we used the word "Cool." It has turned into "Khuuul" but still means the same thing.
What you think is "cool" is where your mind is going to be
If you think walking closely with God is cool, you are more likely to walk with God… if you feel like your faith was forced upon
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Daniel Austin on Mar 28, 2007
Calvin Coolidge was vice president of the United States during the years of 1921-1923, under President Warren Harding. He was not a very active vice president, but he took great pleasure in presiding over the Senate. One day, as he was presiding, one senator angrily told another to go “straight to
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Chris Surber on Jun 11, 2009
OUR REFLECTION
Recently was looking out of the kitchen window as I held my youngest son, Ephram. I was trying to get him to look at the birds on the other side of the window but he seemed consumed with something in the window itself. I realized that I could see my reflection in the glass and so
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Christian Church
Contributed by Sidney Sumida on Oct 6, 2009
TRIALS EXPOSE THE TRUE HEART
Circumstances that are hard and difficult will bring out the best and worst in people. When the terrorist attack happened to our nation on 9/11, we saw this timeless truth acted out right before our very eyes. Some of the greatest acts of heroism were demonstrated by
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 20, 2008
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A little boy was talking to the girl next door: "I wonder what my mother would like for Mother’s Day." The girl answers: "Well, you could promise to keep your room clean and orderly -- you could go to bed as soon as she tells you -- you could go to her as soon as she calls you -- you could brush
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Illustration: “Turnaround”
Gordon Macdonald states, “Repentance is not basically a religious word. It comes from a culture where people were essentially nomadic and lived in a world with no maps or street signs. It’s easy to get lost walking through the desert. You become aware that the countryside
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Contributed by Neil Partington on Jul 31, 2007
There was an article in one of the magazines where a one year old had such a serious medical condition that only an experimental medical procedure MIGHT help her. Otherwise she would die in a short time. Certain members of the family were strongly opposed to going ahead with it. The parents were
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Contributed by Kent Kessler on Aug 30, 2007
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Three weeks after her wedding day, Joanna called her minister in hysterics. She was crying, “Pastor, John and I had our first fight together! It was awful. What am I going to do?"
The pastor, leaning back in his chair and shaking his head said, "Calm down, Joanna, this isn’t nearly as bad as you
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Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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Back in the 1880’s Nietzsche declared that "God is dead," and before the turn of the Twentieth Century, Shaw and Wells chimed in saying the 20th Century would mark the end of the world’s "religious phase."
Yet, today a church now meets in Russia’s Museum of Religion and Atheism-the former center
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 22, 2001
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In 1996 a Spanish man visiting Stockholm on business stood to inherit about a million dollars, according to an October newspaper account in Germany’s daily Bild. Eduardo Perez had stopped off to pray at a Roman Catholic church and signed the guest book of a man whose body lay there in a coffin.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2001
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An African pastor once told of a construction worker that fell on a nail, and as a result, got tetanus. The people in his church fervently prayed and fasted, but the man died. When they had the funeral, however, it turned out to be a crusade! Many people came to a saving knowledge of Christ as a
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