Contributed by Don Haselhuhn on Mar 20, 2001
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What makes a hero? Webster’s defines a hero as a person “of distinguished courage, moral or physical; chief character in a play, novel, poem, etc.” One of my wife and my favorite movies is “The Princess Bride.” One character of the movie, Inigo Montoya, fits the definition of hero found in the
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Lutheran
Contributed by Alan Perkins on Apr 1, 2001
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"I think it makes perfectly good sense that the Kansas Board of Education has deleted any mention of evolution from the state’s science curriculum. A state’s curriculum should reflect the intellectual level of its leaders. If, indeed, those leaders have second thoughts about evolution, it may be
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 12, 2001
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Pioneers were making their way across one of the central states to a distant place that had been opened up for homesteading. They traveled in covered wagons drawn by oxen, and progress was necessarily slow. One day they were horrified to note a long line of smoke in the west, stretching for miles
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2001
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Make no mistake about it, the society in which we live does everything in its power to deny the fact of death. Every plucked gray hair, every chemical peel, every tofu diet, every bottle of Viagra, every tummy tuck is a putting
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Contributed by Mark Engler on Oct 12, 2005
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Terry Bowland in his book Make Disciples – Reaching The Postmodern World for Christ writes this: “Many today balk at the teaching of the church. ‘Do you mean to say,” they ask, ‘that all those outside the church have no hope whatsoever? What about all the sincere folks who never come to Christ?
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jeff Cheadle on Nov 18, 2005
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“Every time you are making a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life you are slowly turning this central thing either into a
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Married couples with children at home make up only 23.5% of households today. Only 7% have a working dad and a stay-at-home mom.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Apr 15, 2006
There are times when all of us have to make decisions, where a “no-decision” is a decision. Handy Harrison knew that. He wanted to ask Sally to marry him but never popped the question. His opponent retired President, Monroe Cole, knew what Handy has missed. So, while getting a golf lesson from
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Christian Church
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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A candy maker in Indiana wanted to make a candy that would be a witness, so he made the Christmas
Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ.
He began with a stick of pure white hard candy: white to symbolize the Virgin Birth and the sinless
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Contributed by Shane Hart on Aug 10, 2006
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Finding one of her students making faces at others on the playground, Mrs. Smith stopped to gently reprove the child. Smiling sweetly, the Sunday School teacher said, "Bobby, when I was a child, I was told if that I made ugly faces, it would freeze and I would stay
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