Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2006
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“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.”
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 20, 2007
Friend: "Has your son’s education proved to be of any real value?"
Father: "Yes, indeed. It has entirely cured his mother of
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Feb 18, 2008
Friend: "Has your son’s education proved to be of any real value?"
Father: "Yes, indeed. It has entirely cured his mother of
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 3, 2002
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Some of us fear conflict, like the grass in the African proverb, “when bull elephants fight, the grass always loses.”
Others of us dread conflict much like opening the proverbial can of worms without knowing how to get them back in.
Others of us, however, seem to deal with it quite well like the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jun 23, 2003
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Sales motivational speaker Zig Ziglar, in his book, Over the Top, points something out that I had never considered before reading it.
He says that we work our hardest just before a vacation. We try super hard to get everything done so we can relax when we get on vacation.
Ziglar says that if we
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Andrew Chan on Apr 26, 2002
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Longer richer life: “Married folks also live longer and make more money” was the claim made by a CT Today article. Also, “according to a German medical magazine, which reported the results of an insurance company survey, a husband who kisses his wife each day before they separate for work will
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jan 4, 2007
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“Obedience for Our Own Safety”
An aviation cadet, on a practice flight, temporarily stricken blind, in panic radioed that message to his control officer. The officer radioed back, “Follow my instructions exactly.” After keeping the blinded cadet circling the field until the whole field was
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Christian Church
Contributed by Todd Stiles on Jan 18, 2007
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In the early 60’s, Vince Lombardi, just after losing a Superbowl and on the eve of a new season, rallied his team in the locker room one day and mounted the bench for a speech. He reviewed last year’s loss, then began to talk about the plans for a return trip to he great game and how they would
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
: There was a lady who died in 1916 named Hetty Green. She was called America’s greatest miser. When she died in 1916, she left an estate valued at $100 million. But she was so miserly that she ate cold oatmeal in order to save the expense of heating the water. When her son had a severe leg injury,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
Illustration: There was a lady who died in 1916 named Hetty Green. She was called America’s greatest miser. When she died in 1916, she left an estate valued at $100 million. But she was so miserly that she ate cold oatmeal in order to save the expense of heating the water. When her son had a severe
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Contributed by Sam Peters on Feb 27, 2007
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Frank Laubach wrote in his book, “Practicing His Presence”: “Humble folks often believe that walking with God is above their heads, or that they may ‘lose a good time’ if they share all their joys with Christ. What a tragic misunderstanding to regard Him as a killer of happiness! A chorus of
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Contributed by Ted Mulder on Mar 24, 2007
John Elderidge wrote in his book The Journey of Desire
“Nearly every Christian I have spoken with has some idea that eternity is an unending church service… He goes on to write – We have settled on an image of the never-ending sing-along in the sky, one great hymn after another, forever and ever,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
I made a list of crisis that people sometimes face and I want to read them to you and see if you’ve faced any of these in your life.
COMMON CRISIS PEOPLE OFTEN FACE
1. The loss of a valued relationship…such as breaking up with a boyfriend of girlfriend, or divorce. The dissolving of a longtime
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Baptist
Contributed by Perry Greene on Sep 29, 2011
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POSITIVE DISCIPLINE
Zig Ziglar says he looked into a mirror one day and realized he needed to lose a lot of weight. He really wanted to get in shape. As an incentive, he put a picture of a thin man on the refrigerator door. There are all kinds of gimmicks offered as motivators to dieting. You can
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 4, 2007
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Quote: J.C. Ryle in Foundations of Faith said:
Who can estimate the value of God’s gift, when He gave to the world His only begotten Son! It is something unspeakable and incomprehensible. It passes man’s understanding. Two things there are which man has no arithmetic to reckon, and no line to
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