Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2001
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One of the subjects I taught was physical science for learning disabled kids. It was hard to get them motivated to do much at all. One day I showed the class a video about protecting the environment. It explored all the ways that humanity was destroying the earth and the steps we needed to take
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2001
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"Without exception, I have found that every person who was sincerely happy, radiantly alive, was living for a purpose or
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Contributed by Rick Stacy on Feb 19, 2001
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I had the occasion to travel to India in 1996. During that trip several of us visited a village near Madras. We wanted to learn about a people group called the “- a tribe of low-caste Indians that lived at the bottom of the social strata.
Eric Derry (our missions minister), Toni Wright (a
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Contributed by Kory Wilcoxson on Mar 12, 2006
I was on a mission trip to North Carolina a few years ago, working on a house that had been flooded by a recent hurricane. A few youth and I were assigned to clean out the pool, which had been filled to the top with floodwaters and creepy-crawlies and sticks that looked liked snakes and made
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Contributed by Richard Tow on Apr 9, 2006
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I came across this little reminder years ago.
“I’m careful of the words I say
to keep them soft and sweet.
I never know from day to day
which ones I’ll have to eat.”
From Paul Lee Tan,
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Contributed by Richard Tow on Apr 9, 2006
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I was thinking the other day about a humorous discussion on how to pray. It is a good illustration what we’re talking about here. The discussion went something like this:
“The Proper way for men to Pray,
Said Deacon Samuel Keys
(At least the best for me,
Is down upon the knees.)
Oh, I should
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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Last year I compiled the Index of Leading Cultural Indicators, a statistical portrait of American behavioral trends of the past three decades. Among the findings: Since 1960, while the gross domestic product has nearly tripled, violent crime has increased at least 560%. Divorces have more than
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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I’ll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that’s more than I can say
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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As I shut the door of the office after me, it seemed as if I met the Lord Jesus Christ face to face. It seemed to me that I saw Him as I would see any other man. He said nothing, but looked at me in such a manner as to break me right down at His feet. I fell down at His feet, wept aloud like a
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Contributed by Elena Bogdan on Apr 18, 2006
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I was in my second year of walking with Christ. Those who knew me closely, heard me say that my mission in life was to live for the same purpose Christ lived on earth: “to seek and to save the lost”.
And that’s how I lived my life from the beginning of my Christian life. Every day, before I
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i. Barton states, “Ultimately, any exercise in extravagant stewardship involves risk. In the Parable of the Talents, the bottom line for the wicked and unfaithful steward was that he was risk averse. This steward let his flesh, feelings, and unhealthy
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