Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 23, 2000
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Fred Smith, in his book Learning to Lead wrote “The shepherd or pastor’s ultimate goal is not to please the sheep but to please God.” Cecil Paul the Author of Passages of a Pastor says that pastors need to free themselves from and I quote “The Tyranny of Evaluation.” Tim Hansel writing in his
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 8, 2008
The Army has a system for defense called challenge and password. When a soldier is on guard and someone approaches, he will say "Halt, who goes there?" The person will identify themselves, then the guard will state a challenge code word. If the other person does not know the password, he cannot
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Pentecostal
Contributed by John Putty on Apr 14, 2011
In The Gospel in Hymns, published in 1950, is a story about Philip Brooks, author of “O Little Town of Bethlehem”:
One April fools day, Brooks saw a boy on Boylston Street in Boston trying to reach a doorbell. Brooks walked up the steps and said, "Let me help you, my little
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jun 23, 2007
During the Victorian era, one how-to-do-it-right manual was Lady Gough’s Book of Etiquette. In this volume, putting books by male authors next to books by female authors was forbidden – unless the authors were married.
• Different parts of the United States, as well as other parts of the world,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 24, 2008
One time I was leading a retreat for single, middle-age people, that is people in their 40s and 50s. When I looked on the roster, there was a man I knew was 75 if he were a day, but he had signed up so I didn’t question his age. He was a regular at the church and had gone on other retreats. I
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 30, 2007
A.W. Tozer said “Let (the average man) be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, between God and
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Baptist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 7, 2007
Whom God would destroy, He first makes blind. There comes a point in the rising tide of human wickedness, where God acts. In preparation he blinds.
John Phillips, Exploring
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Baptist
Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Jan 24, 2008
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Said the Robin to the Sparrow: "I should really like to know Why these anxious human beings Rush about and worry so." Said the Sparrow to the Robin: "Friend, I think that it must be that they have
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Baptist
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 2, 2008
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A.W. Tozer said “Let (the average man) be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men , between God and personal ambition, between God and
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Lewis on Mar 5, 2009
There is an eye that never sleeps, beneath the wing of night;
There is an ear that never shuts, when sinks the beams of light;
There is an arm that never tires, when human strength gives way;
There is a
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Pentecostal
SEX AND CORN FLAKES
Les Parrot states in his book Crazy Good Sex: "No human longing is more powerful, more difficult to rein in, than sex. It has enough combustive force to incinerate wedding vows, family commitments, career goals, religious devotion, and anything else in its path" (page 17).
So
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Humorus story: God was once approached by a scientist who said, "Listen God, we’ve decided we don’t need you anymore. These days we can clone people, transplant organs and do all sorts of things that used to be considered miraculous.
"God replied, "Don’t need me huh? How about we put your theory
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Contributed by Jay Winters on Dec 27, 2007
Hat-tip to SermonCentral illustration bank: On Christmas Eve of 1906, off the coast of Massachusetts, ships carrying sailors that would have liked to be someplace else than a boat on Christmas Eve received a message from the coast in morse code. “CQ….CQ” it said, indicating that an important
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Lutheran
John Maxwell wrote a great book called “Failing Forward” the premise of the book is that if we learn from our mistakes then we actually improve in life. He states, “Everybody fails, errs, and makes mistakes. You’ve heard the saying ‘To err is human, to forgive is divine.’ Alexander Pope wrote that
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 13, 2012
WHERE WILL OUR JOBS GO?
Futurist Thomas Frey blogs, "People are seriously worried. I've been in a number of conversations recently where people are very worried about our coming era of automation where fewer and fewer jobs will be left for people to do.
A few months ago I predicted that over 2
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Quotation: Christian love links love of God and love of neighbor in a twofold Great Commandment from which neither element can be dropped, so sin against neighbor through lack of
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