Contributed by Gene Barron on Feb 2, 2001
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Something is radically wrong with homes today. The family is under fire and home life is disintegrating. Year by year the stress put on marriages grows greater. In 1870 there was one divorce for every 34 marriages. By 1900 it was one in five, and by 1950 it was one in
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Joel Preston on Nov 15, 2002
F.B. Meyer wrote, “All other life, from the aphid on the rose leaf to the archangel before the throne, is dependent and derived. All others waste and grow old; He only is unchangeably the same. All others are fires which he
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Baptist
Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Feb 22, 2008
Sir Walter Raleigh once made a request of the Queen, and she petulantly answered, "Raleigh, when will you ever stop begging?" Walter replied, "When your Majesty stops giving." His request was granted. But the God of all grace
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Baptist
Contributed by Don Jones on Feb 26, 2008
Some have described the practice of mercy or being Christ-like as a pond. There are outlets at both ends. God’s grace, forgiveness, mercy, and blessings flow in one end and we in turn are to allow those blessings to flow out to
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Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on May 21, 2008
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FATHER'S DAY CALLS
THE ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY reported that the volume of long-distance calls made on Father’s Day is growing faster than the number on Mother’s Day. The company apologized for the delay in compiling the statistics, but explained that
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Fanny Crosby, blinded by an illness at 6 weeks of age, would grow to write over 9,000 poems and hymns. One of her many hymns begin this way:
Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it,
Redeemed by the blood of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
DVD Sales represent more than 50% of the studio revenue generated from their movies. But those sales are expected to grow just 2% this year, a far cry from the double-digit growth the industry enjoyed just 2 years ago.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"You never get to the point where everybody knows your story, where there is no more criticism. Remember, you are talking not to a crowd, but to a parade that is changing all the time. You must communicate with all the marchersyoung people are growing up, new people are assuming the burdens of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2002
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“Doubt is the skeleton in the closet of faith and I know no better way to treat a skeleton than to bring it into the open and expose it for what it is: not something to hide or fear, but a hard structure on which living tissue may grow.”
Philip Yancey, Reaching for the
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Contributed by Jeremy Poling on Dec 30, 2007
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Isa 10:27 - And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
The yoke rubs the oxen and causes a wound that
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Pentecostal