Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jul 19, 2001
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[Rescuing Those in Peril, Citation: Leadership, Vol. 12, no. 2.]
Roger Storms, pastor of First Christian Church in Chandler, Arizona, tells this story:
"One Sunday, a car had broken down in the alley behind our facilities, and the driver had jacked up the car and crawled underneath to work on the
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Contributed by Erick Riddle on Sep 3, 2004
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2 Corinthians 1:1-11
One of the ways to share the comfort you have received from God is to go to the visiting hours and the funeral.
In the late ‘80’s I was preaching full time for a small church in Michigan and worked part time in the local funeral home. I frequently saw people from the church
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Contributed by Dan Waite on Dec 20, 2005
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Once upon a time, a young minister tried to quit the ministry in absolute disgust. He was tired of the immaturity of the people and disillusioned by the politics and lack of spirituality of the leadership. He “reasoned” if the church, God’s ambassadors, was that badly corrupted then Christianity
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Contributed by Wayne Dean Sr. on Aug 21, 2002
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Peter Marshall has written a little poem which illustrates how children see the “diamond in the rough” as Jesus did. It goes like this:
“We have the nicest garbage man,
He empties out our garbage can.
He’s just as nice as he can be,
He always stops and talks to me.
My mother doesn’t
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2002
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GODLESS AMERICANS MARCH ON WASHINGTON
An article from Sunday’s Washington Times reported on the event by saying,
"Thousands of nonbelievers converged on the Mall yesterday to demand equal rights under the Constitution and separation between politics and the pulpit during the first-ever Godless
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Sep 16, 2004
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ILLUSTRATION... High Opinion, Our Daily Bread, July 3, 1989
A man who had a high opinion of himself stepped on a coin-operated scale that dispensed a card, giving
his weight and comments about his personality. After reading the card, he handed it to his wife and said, “Here, look at this!” She
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 1, 2005
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According to the Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., a dense fog covering seven city blocks to a height of 100 feet is composed of less that one glass of water. That amount of water is divided into about 60 billion tiny droplets. Yet when those minute particles settle over a city or the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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Francois Fenelon, a 17th century French mystic who wrote the classic Christian Perfection, spoke eloquently of the denial of death: “We consider ourselves immortal, or at least as though [we are] going to live for centuries. Folly of the human spirit! Every day those who die soon follow those who
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Troubling Moral Climate: Americans are troubled by our moral climate, according to the Gallup Poll’s “morality meter” 59% are somewhat (29%) or very (30%) dissatisfied with the U.S. moral and ethical climate — which includes a wide range of issues: sexual and violent content in television and
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jul 28, 2006
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May 2000 Mr.Kevin storey, was driving down the M3 from Poole to Winchester He was pulled up by the traffic police he was doing 68mph in 50mph zone. However the officer was not intrested in his speeding but more interested in the Kit Kat he had been eating whilst driving. He explained it was a
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