Contributed by Fred Sigle on Jun 7, 2007
                
                
                
                    Back in the early 1980’s, a young man was found GUILTY of ROBBING a CONVENIENCE store.  He told the COURT that he had LOST his JOB months before and had been unable to MAKE enough MONEY working at ODD JOBS to SUPPORT his FAMILY and PAY his BILLS.  “I know it was WRONG to ROB the STORE,” he pleaded.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    What we are called from and called to: 
I. Called from labor to rest (Matt. 11:28) 
II. Called from death to life (1 John 3:14) 
III. Called from bondage to liberty (Gal 5:13) 
IV. Called out of darkness into light (1 Pet. 2:9) 
V. Called from bondage to peace (1 Cor. 7:15 
VI. Called to the
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Landry on Feb 25, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    What we are called from and called to: 
I. Called from labor to rest (Matt. 11:28) 
II. Called from death to life (1 John 3:14) 
III. Called from bondage to liberty (Gal 5:13) 
IV. Called from darkness into light (1 Pet. 2:9)
V. Called from bondage to peace (1 Cor. 7:15) 
VI. Called to the
                    
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                    Several years ago, as I was just beginning my serious study for ministry, I became friends with a woman about my own age, and in similar circumstances.  She was a single mother of two middle school age boys.  She wanted the best she could provide for her children…as we all do.  Through several
                    
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                    Video Illustration from “Men In Black” Start time 1:11:48 Scene is an old man and a dog at a booth. Jay and Kay are in a desperate race to track down the stolen galaxy. Searching for information, the Men in Black interrogate an alien (disguised as a dog), who is quick to point out just how limited
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 24, 2006
                
                
                
                    The Encyclopaedia Britannica has 20,000 words more than anyone else about the life  death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, not forgetting his return!
 It quotes ’Concerning the testimony of the many independent secular accounts of Jesus of Nazareth, it records; These independent accounts prove
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
                
                
                
                    Blog Boom The Pew Internet & American Life Project finds the blog population has grown to about 12 million American adults or 8% of adult internet users. The number of blog readers has jumped to 57 million, or 39% of the online population. 64% of bloggers blog to share practical knowledge or skills
                    
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                    Contributed by Craig Sully on Apr 7, 2010
                
                
                
                    One can see the great Methodist revivals, “The First, Second and Third Great Awakening”, of the 18th & 19th centuries.
The Wesleys, George Whitefield, Charles Finney, and others stirred thousands.
In Cane Ridge, Kentucky, (late 1700‘s, early 1800‘s) the revival caused the construction of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 16, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	Let’s imagine a situation where a homeless man is begging on the streets of New York.  A well dressed man in a long limousine pulls up next to him and offers him a job as vice-president of his company.  You might say that is ridiculous; nothing like that would ever happen.  But that is exactly
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Emmert on Jul 11, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    FULFILLING MY TASK
“[Most people] act as if they were simply dropped down in creation and have to entertain [them] selves until [they] die. But we [Christians] were sent into the world by God, just as Jesus was. Each of us has a mission in life. 
Jesus prays to his Father for his followers,
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 7, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    If the world were a village of 1000 people, next year’s population would be 1018. Twenty-eight people would be born, but 10 would die: three from lack of food, one from cancer, two in birth, one from war or crime, and three from natural causes. 
Two-hundred people from this village would receive
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew  Rogers on Nov 17, 2003
                
                
                
                    It was in December of 1903, that after many attempts, the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were successful in getting their “flying machine” off the ground and into the air at Kitty Hawk.
Thrilled over the accomplishment, they telegraphed this message to their sister Katherine: “We have
                    
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