Contributed by Eric Bland on Jun 16, 2003
Why do kids hide when they are doing something wrong?
Let me give you an example. My son Luke is a year old and one day when my wife and I were in the living room, Luke found himself into the kitchen trash. He quietly exited the kitchen and came into the living room, behind a couch where he
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2003
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A priest asked a little boy if he knew what "matrimony" meant. The little boy replied, Sure! It is a place between
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Contributed by Rick Stacy on Apr 10, 2006
Let me read to something written by Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde was a playwrite in the 19th century who was one of the leaders of the Decadence Movement of his era. In modern use, decadence is often defined as a decline in or loss of excellence, obstructing the pursuit of ideals. It is typified by
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Contributed by Oneal Stover on Feb 26, 2004
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Suppose a keg of gun powder has been placed under a man’s house right beneath the furnace where a fire is burning, but he is ignorant of its presence there. After awhile THE HEAT of the furnace causes the gun powder to burn its way through the top of the powder keg and there is a terrible explosion
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As Adrian Rogers once said "We are to be witnesses. Now Jesus didn’t call us to be lawyers. A lot of you say, “Well, you know, I just can’t witness.” Of course you can. Suppose you saw an accident, and they brought you into the courtroom, and they said, “Tell us what you saw.” You
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Nov 10, 2005
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It used to be that to find out who or what was ‘in’ or ‘out’ you consulted the society section of the local newspaper, or Look magazine, or a well-known celebrity reporter for the latest on whatever was deemed the latest ‘in’ and ‘out.’ Now we have the Internet to help us determine what is ‘in’ and
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Scientists studied a native tribe in South America whose people have been dying prematurely for generations. After thorough investigation, the cause of premature death was determined. The disease was transmitted by an insect that lived in the walls of their adobe homes. This new information
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 3, 2002
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God Reaches Out to Find Us
During an Aug. 4 Sunday school class at National Presbyterian Church, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice described how she had drifted from her Christian faith -- and how God reached out and brought her back:
"I was a preacher’s kid, so Sundays were church, no
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 7, 2002
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We are sometimes like the man who was eating Limburger cheese and got it in his mustache. He first stated that the room smelled rotten. Then the front porch, he then stepped out into the yard and exclaimed, “The whole world is
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Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Aug 7, 2005
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ILLUS: When I was a boy in school from time to time I would get into trouble. The first time I was sent to the principal’s office was a real education for me. By the way, back in those day they believed in spanking boys that did something wrong. So, another young man and I was sent to the
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Contributed by Richard Francis on May 10, 2009
Peterson observed further “The story of David is not a story of what God wants us to be, but a story of God working with the raw material of our lives as he finds us” and he also then writes “Naivety regarding sin is dangerous as we follow Jesus, but an obsession with sin is decidedly unhealthy. It
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Contributed by David Ward on Jun 11, 2005
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On Sunday, June 13, 2004, Matt Starr was at Ameriquest Field in Arlington, Texas, watching the home team Rangers take on the St. Louis Cardinals. When a foul ball was hit toward where he was sitting, the 28-year-old landscaper leapt over the seat in front of him. Even though the ball had landed at
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
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OUR TONGUES GET US INTO TROUBLE
The classic movie, "A Christmas Story," is a nostalgic look at growing up in Gary, Indiana, through the eyes of a boy named Ralphy. One scene depicts a school recess in the middle of winter. Two boys surrounded by their classmates argue whether a person’s tongue
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Most if not all of us have seen a large domino display set off. And we know that once you knock down that first domino there’s a chain reaction that takes place. This verse is talking about our actions having a spiritual domino effect. God doesn’t want us to worship Him in the wrong way because
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