Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 14, 2001
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A minister friend of mine received a Christmas card with a note in it from a lady in his congregation. He said she was very complimentary about his preaching, & compared him with Billy Graham. She finished by writing, "I think you are one of the really great preachers of all time."
Later that
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Contributed by Steven Chapman on Mar 26, 2001
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Voltaire was one of the leading figures of the French Enlightenment of the 1700’s. He has an exceptional talent for writing, and to this day, he is known as one of the world’s greatest philosophers. He had money, intelligence, and political influence, which never had been seen by men before his
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Contributed by Les Sinks on Aug 4, 2007
A minister received a Christmas card with a note in it from a lady in his congregation. He said she was very complimentary about his preaching, & compared him with Billy Graham. She finished by writing, "I think you are one of the really great preachers of all time." Later that day, when he showed
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Baptist
Contributed by Sam Peters on Mar 1, 2007
Rick Warren wrote in “The Purpose Driven Life”, “You were put on earth to make a contribution.
You weren’t created just to consume resources – to eat, breathe, and take up
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Contributed by Donny Granberry on Jul 12, 2008
A wedding ring is an outward sign that a person is married.
A military uniform is an outward sign that a person is involved in that particular branch of service.
Similarly, water baptism is a symbol designed by God to identify a person as a
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Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 24, 2003
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Illustration:
I worked in a hog-slaughtering factory for a year when I first came to plant this church. The boss’s adult son used to walk around wearing a white hat and barking orders at everyone but none of the workers respected him the way they did his dad. They knew he was just a pretender. If
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Mennonite
CONNECTED TO GOD'S LOVE
A water pipe was designed to carry water. I have learned that when you hook the pipe to the water, and turn on the water, the water flows through the pipe and out of the other end.
When
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 14, 2007
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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” so read the American astronauts – Andres, Lovell and Borman as they gazed in Awe at the earth from their orbit around the moon on Christmas Eve 1968. These three men experienced a deep
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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Anger is a divinely implanted emotion. Closely allied to our instinct for right, it is designed to be used for constructive spiritual purposes. The person who cannot feel anger at evil is a person who lacks enthusiasm for good. If you cannot hate
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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National Day Of Fasting
In 1995 U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield presented a resolution designating Monday of Thanksgiving week as "National Day of Fasting." He and Stan Mooneyham, President of World Vision International called on all Americans to experience hunger
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Sep 27, 2001
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[What About the Foundation?, Citation: Ravi Zacharias, "If the Foundations Be Destroyed," Preaching Today, Tape No. 142.]
A few weeks ago, I did a lectureship at Ohio State University.
As I was being driven to the lecture, we passed the new Wexner Art Center.
The driver said, "This is a new art
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