Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 19, 2010
                
                
                
                    ETHICS DEFINED
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, ethics is, "The science of morals, or of human duty… Applied ethics presents a scheme of action applicable to the various relations of human life and labor, and sets forth what the rights and duties are which are involved in these
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Oct 21, 2011
                
                
                
                    THE SERMON ON FAMILY
A young minister, with very small children, preached to his congregation on the theme, "10 ways to raise good and godly children." 
Some years later, with his children entering their teens, he returned to his theme, but the same sermon was entitled:
"10 suggestions for
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 1, 2007
                
                
                
                    A New Barna report came out this week  (Sept 07) :
"The new study shows that only 3% of 16 - to 29-year-old non-Christians express favorable views of evangelicals…
"… Among young non-Christians, nine out of the top 12 perceptions were negative. Common negative perceptions include that present-day
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 9, 2007
                
                
                
                    A young employee secretly misappropriated several hundred dollars of his business firm’s money. When this action was discovered, the young man was told to report to the office of the senior partner of the firm. 
As he walked up the stairs toward the administrative office, the young employee was
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Dec 15, 2009
                
                
                
                    Recently, I caught a segment on TV of a movie called Jack.  It’s the story of a boy that ages four times faster than usual.  Robin Williams plays the role of Jack.  He enters public school for the first time in the fifth grade.  Though he has the emotional and mental development of a fifth grade
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A young employee secretly misappropriated several hundred dollars of his business firm’s money. When this action was discovered, the young man was told to report to the office of the senior partner of the firm. 
As he walked up the stairs toward the administrative office, the young employee was
                    
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                    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jul 10, 2007
                
                
                
                    A man named Victor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, discovered this great truth in the midst of a Jewish concentration camp during WW II. While seeking to survive the horror of this imprisonment Frankl began observing his fellow prisoners in the hope of discovering what coping
                    
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                    Jeremiah says: “The LORD IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” God sees us as righteous by looking at Jesus. Unlike all other kings, King Jesus is without sin. What he has and is—namely, his righteousness—becomes what we shall receive as a gift of grace. He is OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS because he is the only one who
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
                
                
                
                    A man named Victor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, discovered this great truth in the midst of a Jewish concentration camp during WW II. While seeking to survive the horror of this imprisonment Frankl began observing his fellow prisoners in the hope of discovering what coping
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Malone on Nov 13, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Christmas is an exciting time and little Sammy was excited.  He was 15 years old and Christmas was still to him a time of wonder.  He was a happy child despite his handicap.  You see, Sammy was slightly retarded.  He still went to school, though he was 2 years behind.  And he did the things that
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 26, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Jeremy Benson was a very successful English businessman, & for a number of years served as Chairman of the Board of a London hospital.  When he died, he left a large part of his fortune to that hospital.
But his Will stipulated that every year for ten years after his death, when the hospital board
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jan 1, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    If the apostle Paul were asked what he would do with all of the present problems of fear, unemployment, and hardship in America today he would no doubt say, "You are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. Do not be overcome (by over-reacting, over-emphasizing, over-spiritualizing,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    DIETY DEMONSTRATED
"The Easter event, so they affirm, 
demonstrated Jesus’ deity; validated his teaching; 
attested the completion of his work of atonement for sin; 
confirms his present cosmic dominion and his coming reappearance as Judge; assures us that his personal pardon, presence, and power
                    
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                    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 19, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    From a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip);
CALVIN (Calling father at work): Hi Dad, it’s me Calvin. How’s Work Going? Uh-huh.  Pretty out isn’t it?  Yup. Are you bringing me any presents home tonight?..No? Well I just thought I’d ask. Listen, I suppose you’re wondering why I
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 7, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    This is a little old, but probably still as true in many churches today…
Singer John Charles Thomas, at age sixty-six wrote to syndicated columnist Abigail Van Buren:
“I am presently completing the second year of a three-year survey on the hospitality or lack of it in churches.
To date, of the 195
                    
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                    Contributed by Ric Feeney on Dec 29, 2004
                
                
                
                    When I pastored in CA I served on 2 commissions.  One of them was the board for a home for unwed mothers willing to give their children up for adoption, rather than abort them.  In gathering research for a presentation, the board received a letter of encouragement from then Cardinal John O’Connor
                    
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                    Contributed by Scott Malone on Apr 5, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A little boy forgot his lines in a Sunday school presentation. His mother was in the front row to prompt him. She gestured and formed the words silently with her lips, but it did not help. Her son’s memory was blank. Finally, she leaned forward and whispered the cue, "I am the light of the world."
                    
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