Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2003
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MEASURING GOODNESS
Goodness can only be measured by God. God is the standard of goodness. If we compare ourselves to others we’re using the wrong measurement. If we determine goodness by what other people call good, we’re using the wrong standard.
It’s like the little boy who came to his mother
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2003
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THE GOODNESS OF GOD..
His goodness is an ocean that has no shore.
A Mountain that has no summit.
A Road that has no end.
Not meager, but much.
Not skimpy but sufficient.
Not little, but limitless·
Not barely, but bountiful·
Not feeble,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2003
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BEYOND OUR DAILY BREAD
Author Jeanne Zornes writes:
As a new Christian, I presumed Jesus’ main job was taking care of me. He led to me a job, roommates to share apartment costs, and a car that ran. But after a while my tastes got fussier. Like the Israelites waking up to manna every morning, I
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2003
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HOW REAL IS YOUR FOOD?
James Boice puts it this way:
“Is he as real to you spiritually as something you can taste or handle? Is he as much a part of you as that which you can eat? Do not think me blasphemous when I say that he must be real and as useful to you as a hamburger and French fries. I
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2003
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"The reality in the first century was that the most intense persecution of the Christian church came, not from the Romans, but from the Jewish community. The Romans and the outside world viewed the Christian Community as merely a small sect of Judaism. Christianity did not spread globally and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 17, 2003
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THE LOOK OF EVIL
“The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 19, 2003
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My dad was a preacher at a small church in Northwest Indiana. Sometimes he would take me and my little brother Steve to the Thursday morning Bible study. George, an elderly gentleman, would split his donut with my little brother. One Sunday my brother came to church with a sandwich bag full of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2003
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(Story told by Shari Hanson) My mother was baby-sitting my son, Dirk, at her house one day. When I stopped to pick him up, Mom told me that Dirk had followed her into the bedroom as she put some things away in the closet. “Grandma,” he asked, “what room is this?” “This is a closet, Dirk,” she
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2003
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When I was stationed in Italy, the U.S. Navy’s Chief of Chaplains came for a visit. One of our Chaplains, Lt. Neil James, was in charge of arranging for a personal visit to some of the large Roman Catholic cathedral down town. While the Chief of Chaplains and Neil were in this beautiful
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 26, 2003
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When the Federal troops occupied Cheraw, South Carolina, the Confederates left so much gun powder behind that the Union troops decided to dump most of it in a little creek. Some of the Union troops were looking for some entertainment so they scooped up handfuls of the powder and carried it to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 6, 2003
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Illustration: If you use an alarm clock to wake you up in the morning, you know what a snooze button is. When the alarm goes off, you can hit the snooze button and get nine more minutes of sleep. There are two problems with the snooze button: (1) If we continue to hit the button, we may end up
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2003
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Joy Davidman tells the story of an old missionary ministering among a tribe of cannibals. The missionary was hard at work trying to convert the native chief. The chief listened patiently but at last said to the missionary, "I do not understand. You tell me that I must not take my neighbor’s
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2003
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Who didn’t love Alfalfa from the late 1930’s/early 1940’s "The Little Rascals"/"Our Gang" series? Playing the curiously-coifed, nerdy romantic, we delighted and sympathized when he sang "I’m in the Mood For Love" with a frog in his throat, pined for Darla and bravely belted out "I’m
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 9, 2003
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One Sunday after church Mom asked her very young daughter what the lesson was about. Her daughter answered "Don’t be scared, you’ll get your quilts." Needless to say, Mom was perplexed. Later in the day, the Pastor stopped by
for tea. Mom asked him what that
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 12, 2003
Lanny Bassham, Olympic gold-medallist in small-bore rifle competition, tells what concentration does for his marksmanship: "Our sport is controlled non-movement. We are shooting from 50 meters--over half a football field--at a bull’s eye three- quarters the size of a dime. If the angle of error at
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