Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 27, 2008
Remember in college when you mixed your drink at the coke dispenser. A little coke, sprite, cherry coke, diet coke, power aid and you got a strange conglomeration. It looks and tastes nothing like the original things you put in it. People like Tiger Woods use this approach.
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Wesleyan
I can't count the number of times Christ has kept me from a decision that looked good at the time, but would have led to a disaster for my family. And I think all of us would run out of fingers and toes before we could
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Catholic
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 13, 2008
WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE THIS?
In an old Dennis the Menace cartoon, Dennis and his little friend Joey are leaving Mrs. Wilson's house, their hands full of cookies. Joey says, "I wonder what we did to deserve this."
Dennis answers, "Look,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Nov 10, 2008
A young soldier was in his tent when the battle was just about to break out. He heard an explosion and jumped into the nearest fox hole. His fellow soldiers looked at him and laughed. They all said, "That was our artillery going off." He had jumped into the
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Samuel Wilder on Nov 10, 2008
"God summons us to seek our best creative selves. He calls us to become artists of life, seers of truth, creators of new possibilities, and innovative problem solvers. Perhaps by looking at Jesus' life and seeing His creative spirit at work, we can begin to awaken
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Baptist
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 4, 2007
Theologian A. W. Pink wrote,
As [one] sees the apparent defeat of the right, and the triumphing of might and the wrong … it seems as though Satan were getting the better of the conflict. But as one looks above, instead of around, there is plainly visible to the eye of faith a Throne.… This then is
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Other
Contributed by Dan Erickson on Nov 14, 2000
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C. S. Lewis describes it so magnificently in The Screwtape Letters. He says, "Satan’s cause is never more in danger than when a human being no longer desiring, but still intending to do God’s will, looks around upon a world from which every
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Baptist
Contributed by David Dewitt on Apr 9, 2001
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Finding his newly-appointed pastor standing at his study window in the church weeping as he looked over the inner city¡¦s tragic conditions, a layman sought to console him: "Don¡¦t worry. After you¡¦ve been here a while, you¡¦ll get
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2002
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In "People" magazine, Madonna said her life has been exhausting since she started her world tour. She said there isn’t a second of her life that isn’t taken up looking after her family or thinking of her show--her day is filled with problems of
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Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Nov 6, 2002
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You Know It Is Going To Be A Bad Day When...
There is a ’60 Minutes’ crew your driveway when you look out the window.
You put both contact lenses in the same eye.
Your birthday cake collapses from the weight of the candles.
Your income tax rebate check bounces.
Your
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Pentecostal
Contributed by James Mccullen on May 6, 2005
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Finding his newly-appointed pastor standing at his study window in the church weeping as he looked over the inner city’s tragic conditions, a layman sought to console him: "Don’t worry. After you’ve been here a while, you’ll
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*other
I heard the story about a little boy - who was sitting on the front steps of his house - with his face buried in his hands.
As he was sitting there his father arrived came home. He asked the little boy what was wrong.
The little boy looked up and
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Anglican
Contributed by Thomas Cash on May 20, 2004
Daniel took no credit; instead he gave it all to God.
Man cannot do this; God, however, can!
Another way to look at Daniel chapter 2: “Pass the P’s, please!”
There was a problem (1-13)
There was prayer (17-18)
There was praise (19-23)
There was proclamation (24-45)
There was
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I hope it helps to remember that we are never closer to God than when we grieve. Faith is tested in suffering. And faith is often born in suffering, for that is when we seek the hope we most need. That is when we awaken to the greatest hope there is, that is when we look beyond our
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Contributed by Michael Walther on Aug 29, 2011
KABASH
Micah 7:19 He will again have compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea.
I love the Hebrew word for "subdue." You may have actually heard it before. It is the word "kabash." Looking ahead to Jesus,
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Lutheran
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