Too many children hear empty threats. I’ll be walking through a grocery store and I’ll hear a parent say, “Now I’m warning you. I’m going to count to three. One, two, two and a half, I mean it, you are going to get it. OK, you just wait till your father gets home.”
It’s just threat after
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 2, 2008
What can you do when God seems invisible and you can’t find him it seems or feel him? Ruth Graham can tell us how. Broken marriage & family. Wrote of trusting God in “In every pew sits a broken heart”: “I came to a point where I saw the need to let go even of my questions. I would not have all the
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Apr 29, 2008
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THE ARREST
A police officer in a small town stopped a motorist who was speeding down Main Street. "But officer," the man began, "I can explain..."
"Just be quiet," snapped the officer. "I'm going to let you cool your heels in jail until the chief gets back."
"But, officer, I just wanted to
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Dec 8, 2008
You plan to have a photograph of all of the grand kids, in their most precious Christmas clothes... it will be the perfect gift for Grandma. But when you go to have the photograph made little Johnny will not sit still... Andy has pulled the bow out of his sister’s hair... the one you paid $16 to
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When Henry David Thoreau was on his deathbed, he was visited by a minister who urged his dying friend to be ready for death: “Do you know where you’re going in the next world?”
Thoreau waved him away with the words, “One world at a time.”
His attitude has caused humanists to uphold him as a man
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 12, 2002
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When I was in training as a Marine, I remember one particularly grueling exercise where we were deposited in the center of Dartmoor, England. We were told to make our way on foot to a certain point on the map more than fifty rugged miles away. As we had done a similar journey the previous day,
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Jan 14, 2003
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I had my son’s 7th grade reading book at home this past week and I read a story written by Clifton Davis. You might know Clifton from the TV show entitled Amen. Clifton found success starring as the Reverend on the sitcom from the 1980’s.
It wasn’t success, however, that Clifton was encountering
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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Belief In Life After Death, like the existence of God, is widely embraced by American adults. According to a new Barna Research poll 81% believe in an afterlife of some sort. Another 9% say they are not certain. Just 10% contend there is no form of life after death. 79% agree, “Every person has a
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Mar 10, 2010
NOW PICTURE THIS. You are travelling in the removal van with your wife and the driver. Your wife can't be a "back seat driver" because you don't even know where you are going. The driver thinks your crazy, when all of a sudden, God appears in the truck right beside you and says, "THIS IS IT! YOU
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
Northern Mississippi River freezes. A man decided to walk across the ice instead of going down to the bridge. He didn’t see anyone else out there. It looked so crusty and thick, He said, “I believe I can walk across. I won’t have to take the journey down to the bridge” and he began to walk
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2002
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Clyde Reid suggested the following in
his book, YOU CAN CHOOSE CHRISTMAS,
(1975): "To anticipate Christmas is to
decide now that miracles
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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God: "Whew! I just created a 24-hour period of alternating light and darkness on Earth."
Angel: "What are you
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 28, 2006
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J.Piper said, ‘there are three possibilities with the great commission You can go, You can send. Or you can be disobedient.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
Over 4 million babies are born in the U.S. each year, with half of those children going to first-time
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Dawn-wind in tree-tops is a thrilling murmur and stir: it gives the feeling that something is going to happen; that feeling of half-blissful,
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