Contributed by Martin Wiles on May 9, 2002
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A TEST FOR DELINQUENCY
Harvard University sociologists developed a test with a 90% accuracy reading to determine whether or not a five and six-year-old would be delinquent. They discovered four factors necessary to prevent delinquency: ’the father’s firm, fair, and consistent discipline; the
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Contributed by Howard Parnell on Sep 26, 2002
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The story is told of a little girl whose parents never went to church. However, they insisted upon her
attendance and what is more is that she had to be able to recite the preacher’s text for the day. One morning she rushed home excited: "Oh mama, my name is in the Bible." "That’s not likely,"
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Baptist
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Picture a man departing from Cincinnati on his way to San Francisco, turning his car toward the east instead of the west. He realizes his mistake, but does not want to turn around; and so, in spite of regrets and resolutions and protestations that he wants to go to the Pacific coast, he one day
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Baptist
Contributed by Steve Boyd on Aug 20, 2003
Dreamers have always had a way of shaking up their world. One of the most infamous illustrations of this would be a speech that was given on those steps in Washington, DC, when Martin Luther King Jr. stood and said… “I have a dream”…
No matter what your personal position is this morning, if you
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2005
You could be home with a difficult teenager, at work with a demanding boss or gossipy co-worker; struggling with a customer’s complaints. Whatever the interaction, remind yourself, “School is in session. I’m in God’s school, and this person is the curriculum. What can I learn about love? What
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Contributed by Mark Ferrante on Feb 10, 2007
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Always, love is a choice. You come up against scores of opportunities every day to love or not to love. You encounter hundreds of small chances to please your friends, delight your Lord and encourage your family. That’s why love and obedience are intimately linked--you can’t have one without the
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Assembly Of God
i. Tadlock states, ‘The loss of perspective is another cost of hurry sickness. Perspective means a balanced way of seeing things-the capacity to see people or things in their relationship to each other. You see things as they are rather than in some distorted manner. It’s hard to
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Claude White on Mar 5, 2007
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Two shepherds lean on their crooks at the end of a long day and the first asks the second, "So, how’s it going?" The second one sighed and shook his head, "Not good, I can’t pay my bills, my health isn’t good, my kids don’t respect me, and
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Baptist
Have you ever gone outside and worked in your yard all day? You come inside,look in the mirror, and see how filthy you are. You can’t wait to get in the shower and wash yourself off with soap and water.
God’s Word is a mirror, revealing to us just how dirty we are.
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Bible Church
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Feb 12, 2011
KNOW HIM THROUGH OUR WITNESS
Perhaps one of the greatest challenges for Christianity in our day is for churches to so walk with God that the world comes to know Him through their witness. When a church allows God's presence and activity to be expressed, a watching world will be drawn to
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 11, 2011
AFTER THE DECISION
John Wesley, talking of the conversion process, said that the new believer will often rest for days or months in the peace which follows the initial decision, but after a while they begin to become aware of "the ground of their heart, which God before would not disclose unto
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 20, 2000
Actually, it’s a good thing that Jesus is not with us now in a human body and therefore limited to one geographic location. If He was, you would have as much chance of being with Him in your lifetime as you would a holiday with the Queen! You might get a five minute slot in His diary in 2030, but
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
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Sharing Our Resources?
· Number of children who don’t get enough food to fully develop mentally and physically: 500,000,000.
· Number of hunger-related deaths every day: 40,000. (World Bank. Leadership, "To Verify.")
· Amount of money Americans spend annually on pet
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Baptist
Contributed by Cris Willis on Dec 27, 2007
Trick-or-treaters rake in a lot of candy every October 31. In fact, according to the National Confectioners Association, Halloween is the number-one holiday for candy sales, beating out Christmas, Easter and Valentine’s Day. The NCA predicts Halloween candy sales to reach $2 billion in 2003 in the
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Church Of God
Illustration:
On New Years Day, 1929, Georgia Tech was playing California. Late in the second quarter, Roy Regals recovered a fumble for California, and in his excitement became confused and began running in the wrong direction.
After racing 65 yards he was finally tackled by his own player at
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
J. Gordon once said, “I have long since ceased to pray, “Lord Jesus, have compassion on a lost world!” I remember the day and the hour when I seemed to hear the Lord rebuking me for making such a prayer. He seemed to say to me, “I have had compassion upon a lost world, and now
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