Contributed by Colin Bain on Nov 13, 2007
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I may have mentioned that I love my wife’s cooking. I am always amazed at the way she simply just knows exactly what to do and what to put in the dish. She follows a recipe as a guide rather than an instruction manual. She does things and puts things together, I would think were completely wrong,
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 20, 2008
A schoolteacher was giving a lesson in fractions. "Johnny, suppose there were seven in your family -- five children and mother and father --a total of seven. And suppose there was pie for dessert. What fraction of the pie would you get?" Johnny answered, "One-sixth." "But you don’t understand,"
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 12, 2008
THE MASTER'S THERE
In one of his books, A. M. Hunter, the New Testament scholar, relates the story of a dying man who asked his Christian doctor to tell him something about the place to which he was going. As the doctor fumbled for a reply, he heard a scratching at the door, and he had his answer.
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Contributed by Michael Russell on Jan 12, 2009
I was reading the other day how some computers get taken over as slaves. The owner doesn’t know it, but somehow their computer gets used to send lots of email ads, or to try and gain credit card numbers and passwords to steal money. All sorts of evil goes on, your computer is a slave,, and you
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 4, 2009
Here’s an interesting thing: What often irritates us in someone else is what we do ourselves.
You know that I am very close to my younger sister Jean, who is also a pastor. Years ago, I noticed that when we were on the phone, she would sometimes “checkout” of the conversation. I would know
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 8, 2003
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My youngest brother, Peter (a pastor in Minnesota), was 5 years old when JFK was assassinated. He understood that something very tragic had happened — President Kennedy had been killed — but he was obviously confused when he saw all the film clips of him on TV. He asked my
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Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jan 31, 2006
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“Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes and it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn’t matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Timothy Smith on May 27, 2006
But the most important question we can ask about the Bible is what does all that matter? Even if the Bible is God’s love letter what difference does that make to me?
{Video Clip: Walk The Line - Start: Chp. 2:2:36 - Chp. 2:4:43 - 2:07}
Johnny Cash’s brother is right. If we are going
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Contributed by C Reola on Nov 26, 2006
I want to end with a candle illustration. I have here with me Junior and Senior candle prepare two candles, one long and one short...the long one is the junior candle and the short one is the senior candle. Who is Senior and who is Junior?
As I said earlier, life is short. We do not know when
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 31, 2009
At Delphi, in ancient Greece, there stood a temple dedicated to Apollo. Carved over the entrance to this temple were two great principles of life: “Know thyself” and “Nothing in excess.” We are concerned here with the first of these wise sayings, “know thyself.” What the Greeks learned by
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
FIEDLER'S FORECASTING RULES
1. It is very difficult to forecast, especially about the future.
2. He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
3. The moment you forecast, you know you’re going to be wrong--you just don’t know when and in which direction.
4. If you’re ever
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Brethren
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
Quote: C. S. Lewis
"Anyone who has ever taught or attempted to lead others knows the tendency in all of us toward exaggerating our depth of character while treating leniently our flaws. The Bible calls this tendency hypocrisy. We consciously or subconsciously put forward a better image of
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Brethren
Contributed by Jim Kane on Jun 11, 2007
‘Most of us do not wait well... Jesus asked the disciples to wait in Jerusalem until they received the promised power to meet all that lay ahead of them as well as an advocate to teach them all that they needed to know.’
‘It must have been hard to wait. They were under suspicion by the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
A wife invited some people to dinner.
At the table, she turned to their six-year-old daughter and said,
"Would you like to say the blessing?"
"I wouldn’t know what to say," the girl replied.
"Just say what you hear Mommy say," the wife answered.
The daughter bowed her head and said,
"Lord,
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Contributed by Neal Gracey on Sep 1, 2008
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This Christmas has set me off. It has given me new fire. It is a wakeup call to men, women and children around the world that 200? could be the beginning of new dark ages. There is a possibility that our children's children could be jailed or killed for speaking about Christ. Want to know what's
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