Contributed by Larry Vinson on Jul 24, 2008
"Today it's rare to see siblings serving alongside each other, either in church or in a ministry outside of church. Parents often focus on allowing each child to explore his or her individual gifts and talents through service -- which is a good thing. Then as brothers and sisters grow up, their
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2002
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FATHERLESS AMERICA
Tonight, 40% of all American children will go to sleep in a house in which their fathers do not live.
Before the age of eighteen, more than 50% of our children will spend a significant portion of their childhood living apart from their fathers.
A generation ago, an
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Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Oct 15, 2008
Charlie wrote about his experience as a kid growing up in the American south and planting peanuts. Because peanuts are tubers that grow on the roots beneath the ground, you cannot see how well they’re developing. So being an impatient kid, he decided to dig them up to see how they were doing. Well,
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Dec 27, 2002
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A girl of ten years went with a group of family and friends to see the Christmas light displays at various locations throughout the city. At one church, they stopped and got out to look more closely at a beautifully done nativity scene.
“Isn’t that beautiful?” said the little girl’s
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Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 8, 2010
A BETTER LIFE
There was a time, and maybe still is, when you might hear a parent say something about wanting to provide a "better life" for their son or daughter. A better life than what they had growing up. And by better life, they mean - a bigger house, more and nicer cars, and more stuff.
And
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Contributed by Tim White on Aug 15, 2011
HATING TO LOSE
As a young man growing up, my family enjoyed TV sports. Part of the fun was choosing a team and cheering for them. What maximized the fun was having someone in the family pick the other team, and it became personal.
My brother hated to lose. He was noted for changing teams mid-game
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Contributed by Kenneth Henes on Oct 27, 2000
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Two men had gone moose hunting up in Canada for a week. Their week of hunting was over, and a pilot had flown in to pick them up, as arranged ahead of time. The pilot taxied the plane down the grass landing strip to where the hunters stood with all of their equipment and the two moose they had
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Contributed by Mark Umbehagen on Aug 23, 2001
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A husband and his wife woke up one Sunday morning and the wife dressed for church.
It was just about time for the service when she noticed her husband hadn’t moved a finger toward getting dressed.
Perplexed, she asked, “Why aren’t you getting dressed for church?”
He said, “Cause I don’t want to
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Sep 3, 2001
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Someone tells about a man who pulled up to a red light and saw a truck towing a trailer with many sheep inside. The man rolled down his window and yelled to the truck driver, "You shepherds don’t move your sheep around like you used to."
To which the truck driver replied, "I’m not a
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In Ephesians 6 God directs us to take up our weapons and the full armor of God to fight the enemy. The first weapon we are directed to pick up is a shield of faith.
There are two Greek names for shields used by soldiers at that time. One is a small round shield called an “aspis.” The second
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 24, 2002
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Michael Green sums it up. “How much we need the Holy Spirit in our church life! Had it struck you that if the New Testament is right in the marrying up of the Holy Spirit with witness bearing, this might shed a flood light on the poverty of spiritual experience in many a church and many a
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Contributed by Greg Nance on May 13, 2002
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Several of us go pick up the inner city kids and bring them to Bible classes once a week. One of the questions I like to ask the kids at Inner City is this:
Does you mamma love you? They always answer, “Yes!” Then I ask them why and they tell me, “She has to, she’s my mamma!”
You can’t ask
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Contributed by Todd Goodwin on May 19, 2002
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Kay Poe and Esther Kim grew up as best friends and fierce competitors. Their sport was tae kwon do, a form of martial arts that was featured for the first time in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. As Kay and Esther got older, they found themselves in different weight classes, so they rarely met in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2002
During World War II, the Nazis set up a camp factory in Hungary where hundreds of Jewish prisoners had survived in disease infested barracks on little food and gruesome backbreaking work. Each day the prisoners were marched to the compound¡¦s giant factory where tons of human waste and garbage were
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Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Oct 14, 2005
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Some of you know that I built a little cabin up at my family’s property on the way to Ottawa. What you might not know is that it is built on the edge of a small cliff with a good view of the lake. The north end of the cabin is on solid Canadian Shield rock, but the south end hangs over the cliff
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Contributed by Robert Rose on Oct 18, 2005
We once had a homeless man show up at our mission. He had been walking for days to get someplace so that he might find work. His feet were blistered, his shoes were worn and his socks had holes. The case manager had a big heart, she had the man sit down and she got a pan of water. She proceeded
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