Contributed by Greg Buchner on Nov 1, 2004
RECRUITMENT... by Pastor Greg Buchner
There’s a term in Audiology/hearing circles called recruitment. Unlike military recruitment or church committee recruitment, this recruitment is defined as “the range between the volume you are most comfortable hearing vs. the highest volume you are the most
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Methodist
Contributed by Terry Kemp on Feb 9, 2006
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Here’s a story with which we’re familiar …
Twelve men went to spy out Canaan,
(Ten were bad, two were good)
What do you think they saw in Canaan?
(Ten were bad, two were good)
Some saw giants, big and tall!
Some saw grapes
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Myron Loss on Jun 9, 2006
Fanny Crosby was blind since six weeks old and saw her sickness as a gift from God. “O what a happy soul I am! Although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I will be. How many blessings I enjoy that
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 13, 2001
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"We become vulnerable when we love people and go out of our way to help them."
That’s what the wealthy industrialist Charles Schwab declared after going to court and winning a nuisance suit at age 70. Given permission by the judge to speak to the audience, he made the following statement:
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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I love the story of the little boy who told his mother he had determined that he was six feet tall. When she asked how he had arrived at this conclusion, he told her he had used his shoe to measure and that he was six shoes tall. With a loving smile she sweetly told him that his shoe was not twelve
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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With all due respect to those of us who love “the old ways” – you will not win an MTV generation with organ music. We want to pass along the faith to today’s generation? Then you’ve got to pass it along in ways they will understand. One preacher said it this way: About the only place you can
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United Methodist
I found a book called “Love Hunger” and I started reading it.They talked about how an empty heart will cause some people to over eat to fill it but the reality is they are overfilling the stomach – not dealing with the heart issue. I continued to read from this book and listen to some of the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by A. David Hart on Feb 20, 2007
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I love working in my yard. In fact my neighbors think that I take yard work all too seriously.
I’ll cut my grass and make sure that it is cut in a certain pattern. I make sure that my lines are straight from the lawnmower wheels and my flowers have to be just right.
But one day disaster struct.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2005
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Things You’d Love to Say at Work But Can’t
• How about never? Is never good for you?
• I’ll try being nicer if you’ll try being smarter.
• It sounds like English, but I can’t understand a word you’re saying.
• Ah … I see the screw-up fairy has visited us again.
• I like you. You remind me of
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Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 13, 2005
My oldest son loves to read. His mom gets the credit for that. She has a ferocious appetite for reading, (as well as being extremely beautiful). One of the first series of books Kenny read was the children’s version of The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. The seventh book is entitled The Last
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Pentecostal
Jars of Clay sings about how we should be in love with the One who we praise – Listen to their song “Love Song for a Savior” and note some of their words and the heartbeat of this song. Catch these phrases in the song
i. He is as close as a heart beat.
ii. We must learn how to see Him
iii. We must
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Adults often don’t grasp mature, Christian love. Chuck Swindoll told about the guy who fell in love with an opera singer. He hardly knew her, since his only view of the singer was through binoculars--from the third balcony. But he was convinced he could live happily ever after married to a voice
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