Contributed by Bruce Emmert on May 7, 2001
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On a scale of 1 to 10, how optimistic are you about your future? In that great mid-life crisis movie, City Slickers, Billy Crystal’s character Mitch attends career day at his son’s grade school. Mitch is anything but optimistic. His son had told everyone that his dad was a submarine captain, but
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone. Just a few minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave of remorse swept over me. Guiltily I
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A modern day story of perseverance in prayer:
Hands on --- show your key chain:
PUSH – I have had this key chain for at least 9 years – It is a constant reminder to me about the importance of perseverance in prayer –especially through difficult circumstances. The acrostic meaning of the key chain
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 2, 2025
[182]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – MARYS AT THE CROSS (An Easter Poem)
This is an Easter poem about 4 women, precious ones in the life of the Lord during His time on earth. Some people find it confusing to work the Marys out, especially at Easter time. What the Marys speak of is total devotion and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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JUSTIN
I want to tell you about a 12-year-old boy we’ll call Justin. Justin never knew anything good. His parents, if you want to call them that, were completely without qualifications to birth the boy, having done so quite unintentionally, making far less effort to raise him than they made to
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Contributed by Michael West on Apr 2, 2008
Everybody can do what I’m talking about today. God has put people in everybody’s life. Quit crying...what about my ministry….look around you, your ministry is right here, it’s over
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Curtis Kittrell on Sep 23, 2001
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Our 7-year-old daughter had just won $2.00 for her memory work in Sunday school. After the morning service, the pastor’s wife congratulated her.
Our daughter proudly announced, "And I put it all in the morning’s offering!"
"My, how wonderful!" the pastor’s wife exclaimed. "I’m sure God will be
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2001
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Jesus saw a crowd chasing down a woman to stone her and approached them. "What’s going on
here, anyway?" he asked. "This woman was found committing adultery and the law says we
should stone her!" one of the crowd responded. "Wait," yelled Jesus, "Let he who is without
sin cast the first stone."
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
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I believe in miracle, but not too much miracle, for too much miracle would weaken us, make us dependent on miracle instead of our obedience to natural law. Just enough miracle to let us know he is there, but not too much, lest we depend on it when we should depend on our own initiative and on his
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Contributed by Gary Macdonald on Dec 13, 2002
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This prayer was found in the clothing of a dead child at Ravensbruck concentration camp.
O Lord, remember not only the men and woman of good will, but also those of ill will. But do not remember all of the suffering they have inflicted upon us:
Instead remember the fruits we have borne because of
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There it is, the word forsake. It sounds painful. It produces a mid-air collision with a courtroom gavel that says, “Divorced,” and an emergency room doctor that says, “Dead.” The word means, “to let one down, to desert, abandon, leave in a lurch, leave one helpless.” Kenneth Wuest helps us with
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Pentecostal
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A recent Jim Carry movie, Bruce Almighty, is the story of a human given the power but not the wisdom of God. Carry proceeds to make a huge mess of things, resulting in everything from natural disasters to financial calamities. But when his girlfriend, Grace, becomes fed up with his immaturity and
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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