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  • Devil Says "I'll Make Your Music Career Take Off ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 21, 2008
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    Devil says “I’ll make your music career take off if you quit singing gospel” “I’ll make you popular if you Party and have sex” “I’ll make your self esteem higher if you sleep with a lot of people” “I’ll give ...read more

  • Questions For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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    QUESTIONS FOR SELF-EXAMINATION Andrew Murray, whose devotional books are still popular nearly a century after his death, said this: "It is when we face ourselves and face Christ, that we are lost in wonder, love and praise. We need to rediscover the almost lost discipline of self-examination; and ...read more

  • A Farmer Was Walking Through The Forest One Day ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2003
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,144 views

    A farmer was walking through the forest one day when he found a young eagle that was hurt. The farmer saved the eagle from the dangers of the forest. He took it home and put it in his chicken lot where it soon learned to eat and behave like the chickens. One day a Forest Ranger passed by the ...read more

  • A Bundle Of Rags

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,254 views

    Why does sometimes the change seem so slow? This happens more promptly in some folks than others. Because, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come Sometimes people ask, ‘why don’t we see a lot of change? Why don’t we see all these folks living but for ...read more

  • Twenty Questions: How Do I Know If I'm A ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 13, 2007
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    Twenty Questions: How Do I Know If I’m A Workaholic? ________________________________________ 1. Do you get more excited about your work than about family or anything else? 2. Are there times when you can charge through your work and other times when you can’t? 3. Do you take work with you to ...read more

  • Jill Rigby Notes From Her Book "Raising ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 13, 2008
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    Jill Rigby notes from Her book "Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World" that the following areas need to be shielded and monitored in our homes: Magazines, Books, Music, TV, Movies, and certain others. 1. We as parents must bear the burden to shield the eyes and the ears of our ...read more

  • Michael Brown, "Go And Sin No More" 20 Reasons ...

    Contributed by Todd Pugh on Feb 6, 2007
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    Michael Brown, “Go and sin no more” 20 reasons not to sin 1) Sin does not satisfy a. Proverbs 27:20 Hell and Destruction are never full; So the eyes of man are never satisfied. b. Hebrews 11:25 talks about, “the passing pleasures of sin,” 2) Sin leads to More sin 3) Sin Leads to Worse Sin 4) Sin ...read more

  • Rush Limbaugh Has This Phrase As Part Of His ...  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Weber on Mar 23, 2001
    based on 77 ratings
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    Rush Limbaugh has this phrase as part of his self introduction. "Talent on loan from God." It might sound arrogant, but it really isn’t. It’s humble. I’ve heard him explain it too. He knows that whatever he is able to do is a gift from ...read more

  • Dick Lucas Says, "It Is Through Great Endurance ...

    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Apr 26, 2009
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    Dick Lucas says, "It is through great endurance that the servant of God commends himself. By it he learns to hold his position under attack, and quietly to persist in the paths of righteousness and truth. Through patience, the Christian learns forbearance and self-restraint, ...read more

  • As You Know, This Wednesday Is The 4th Of July. ...

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Jul 5, 2007
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    As you know, this Wednesday is the 4th of July. The 231st Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence that was signed on July 4th, 1776. The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence contains some of the most moving words ever written. It says…“We hold these truths to ...read more

  • Kind Of Like The Little Kid Who Was Told This ...  PRO

    Contributed by Maximiliano Zapata on Jun 19, 2001
    based on 119 ratings
     | 2,707 views

    Kind of like the little kid who was told this same story in his Sunday morning Bible class. After church on way home mom asks him what they talked about in Bible class, little boy tells her that they talked about the creation story and how God had taken a rib from mans side and made a wife for ...read more

  • Truth And Lies  PRO

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Aug 5, 2003
    based on 38 ratings
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    Listen to Adrian Rogers: “It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is not love and it is not friendship if we fail to declare the whole counsel of God. It is better ...read more

  • A Mother Ran Into The Bedroom When She Heard Her ...  PRO

    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Nov 16, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 2,217 views

    A mother ran into the bedroom when she heard her seven-year-old son scream. She found his two-year-old sister pulling his hair. She gently released the little girl’s grip and said comfortingly to the boy, "There, there. She didn’t mean it. She doesn’t know that hurts." He nodded his ...read more

  • If He Gets Loose

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 20, 2013
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    IF HE GETS LOOSE The preacher was wired for sound with a lapel mic. Unlike todays wireless mics, this had a wire attached to it. He was an energetic preacher and as he preached, he swung his hands and he moved briskly about the platform, jerking the mic cord as he went. Then he moved to one side, ...read more

  • The Year Was 1858 And The Illinois Legislature ...

    Contributed by David Dewitt on Jan 20, 2008
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    The year was 1858 and the Illinois legislature used what might be called a dirty political trick. The legislature gave newly elected U.S. Senate seat not to the man who won the popular vote but to the man who had the most support from the Illinois legislature. The man sent to the US Senate was ...read more

  • I Remember In The Batman Movie The Joker Once ...

    Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Feb 23, 2008
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    I remember in the Batman movie the Joker once said to Vickie Vail, "I may be smiling on the outside, but I am crying within." What about you today? Are you crying within? Are you in need of soul rest? Then why don’t you come to Jesus today? He will give you rest. He will give you internal peace. He ...read more

  • Never Let Them See The Glory

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Aug 9, 2008
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    NEVER LET THEM SEE THE GLORY C.S. Lewis wrote the book, "The Screwtape Letters". In the book, "Screwtape" is the Devil and his demon is "Wormwood". This is what the Devil says to the demon about Christianity: "Wormwood, the church is fertile field if you keep them bickering over details, ...read more

  • He Flies Underneath You

    Contributed by Hugh W. Davidson on Mar 13, 2009
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    HE FLIES UNDERNEATH YOU You see, when a mother eagle has her eggs, she sits on them to keep them warm and waits for them to hatch. then she goes back and forth and finds food for them. But there comes a time when she decides these little guys have to learn to fly. So she stirs up the nest and ...read more

  • The Bible Defines Worldliness By Centering ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 31, 2002
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    The Bible defines worldliness by centering morality where we intuitively know it should be. Worldliness is the lust of the flesh (a passion for sensual satisfaction), the lust of the eyes (an inordinate desire for the finer things of life), and the pride of life (self-satisfaction in who we are, ...read more

  • The Bible Defines Worldliness By Centering ...  PRO

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jan 13, 2003
    based on 6 ratings
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    The Bible defines worldliness by centering morality where we intuitively know it should be. Worldliness is the lust of the flesh (a passion for sensual satisfaction), the lust of the eyes (an inordinate desire for the finer things of life), and the pride of life (self-satisfaction in who we are, ...read more