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In an interview with TIME magazine, Bill Gates is quoted as saying:
“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
Bill Gates has a net worth of 56 billion dollars. To put that in perspective, there are
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Charles Jones on Aug 29, 2007
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We are moving closer and closer to the time of the Lord’s return. Yet in the midst of potential uncertainty and perilous times in the world,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Bob Joyce on Aug 31, 2007
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Some time ago, there was a comic strip in Peanuts that showed Lucy in her psychiatrist booth. She is trying to analyze Charlie Brown. She says, "Charlie Brown, life is like a deck chair." "Like what?" "Charlie, have you ever been on a ship when the passengers try to open up one of those chairs so
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Baptist
The second richest man in Rockefeller’s time was Andrew Carnegie (car-NEGG-ee). He spent the first 66 years of his life accumulating wealth, and then spent the last 18 giving as much of it away as he could. He said, “I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and
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Episcopal/Anglican
Quote: The earliest recorded philosophy of time was expounded by Ptahhotep, who lived c. 2650–2600 BCE said: "Do not lessen the time of following desire, for
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Illustration from this week’s Time Magazine Nov. 26, 2007 edition – The article on pages 58, 59. The article shows who are the happiest people, by job, and who are the least happy people, by job. They also have a statement which says, “On the job. Those few at the top
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Dale Harlow on Dec 17, 2007
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But there was a time when you got to Christmas and it all slowed down. You would have the week between Christmas and New Year’s sort of as the holiday. It is not that you didn’t work during that time, but things slowed down significantly. But like those hospital stays it has been shortened
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 20, 2007
A recent survey in the Times reports. The Saga Populus survey of 10,000 over 50s found widespread concerns about the celebration of Christmas. Some 85 per cent objected to councils replacing ‘Christmas’ lights with ‘winter’ lights and 84 per cent were dismayed by the replacement of nativity
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Baptist
Contributed by Clarence Clough on Dec 23, 2007
In an earlier time a Christian man was being burned at the stake. He was there because he refused to renounce his Christian testimony.
In the final moments of his body being burned he lifted his hands in the air a clapped three times. It seemed he clapped once for the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Jan 4, 2008
Once upon a time, a congregation outgrew their church building. Everyone agreed that they needed to build a new church; but they couldn’t agree on a blueprint, a budget or a building site. In desperation, the pastor invited everyone to join him for an evening of special prayer. One woman came,
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 21, 2008
Attending a wedding for the first time a little girl whispered to her mother, "Why is the bride dressed in white?" Because white is the colour of happiness and today is the happiest day of her life."
The child
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
In ’07, for the first time, more of the earth’s population lived in cities than in rural areas --
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
There was a story in the newspaper some time ago about a burglar in Gastonia, NC, who broke into an apartment where he washed all the dirty dishes, mopped the kitchen floor, scrubbed the bathtubs and rearranged all of the furniture very neatly. (Some of you might want to leave your door unlocked so
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 14, 2008
Time magazine reported in January 1995 that an earthquake in Kobe, Japan, occurred when two plates on a fault line fifteen miles offshore suddenly shifted against each other, violently lurching six to ten feet in opposite directions. The result was the worst Japanese earthquake since 1923.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 17, 2008
The most crippling time for the church is summer time and vacations. People are traveling and spend their tithe, or drop it in a church they are visiting. Too many come home and having been away for weeks over the summer, have no sense of obligation to “make up” the shortfall in
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 12, 2008
The time is here! The summer is over and school is back in session! The time for our children’s learning process is back on schedule. Teachers are all geared up to instruct their students in all the skills of mathematics, language usage, social studies and the sciences.
Last week I found a very
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 30, 2008
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Often times we are like the children on the Candid Camera episode
Years ago on Candid Camera, children were used in an experiment about generosity.
The children were placed by themselves in a room with a plate of cookies. On the plate were at least two cookies, there may have been more, but one of
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