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  • John Maxwell Stated This On Page 1351 Of The ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 1, 2006
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    John Maxwell stated this on page 1351 of the Leadership Bible: 1. What most impresses me about Apollos, however, is his teachability. He never thought he had learned so much that he couldn’t improve his game. Luke points out several facts about this man: a. He came from a cultured city (v. ...read more

  • When Joe Wright Was Asked To Open The New Session ...  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 15, 2003
    based on 11 ratings
     | 2,247 views

    When Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual politically correct generalities. But, what they heard instead was a prayer delivered with grace yet full of truth. "Heavenly Father we ask Your forgiveness. We know Your Word says, ’Woe on ...read more

  • I Think The Challenge Was Put Very Nicely By The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 22, 2003
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    I think the challenge was put very nicely by the ’Sunday Times’ journalist Matthew Parris – a man, who by his own confession, is not a Christian. Parris wrote: ’The New Testament offers a picture of God, who does not sound at all vague. He has sent His Son to earth. He has distinct plans for ...read more

  • The Cold Within

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Mar 11, 2004
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    The Cold Within (unknown) Six humans trapped by happenstance in black and bitter cold. Each one possessed a stick of wood (or so the story’s told). Their dying fire, in need of logs, the first woman held hers back, For on the faces around the fire, she noticed one was black. The second, looking ...read more

  • I Just Read The Story Online Of A Guy Who Sold ...  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Apr 11, 2004
    based on 13 ratings
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    I just read the story online of a guy who sold everything in order to place a bet in Los Vegas. The article explains: “A British man who has sold all his possessions, including his clothes, will stand in a rented tuxedo on Sunday and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel. If he ...read more

  • I Think The Challenge Was Put Very Nicely By The ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on May 1, 2004
     | 1,709 views

    I think the challenge was put very nicely by the ’Sunday Times’ journalist Matthew Parris – a man, who by his own confession, is not a Christian. Parris wrote: ’The New Testament offers a picture of God, who does not sound at all vague. He has sent His Son to earth. He has distinct plans for each ...read more

  • In The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen Retells A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Dow on May 28, 2004
    based on 29 ratings
     | 3,550 views

    In The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen retells a tale from ancient India: Four royal brothers decided each to master a special ability. Time went by, and the brothers met to reveal what they had learned. “I have mastered a science,” said the first, “by which I can take but a bone of some creature and ...read more

  • Objects On Stage And In The Power ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 19, 2007
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    Illustration: Objects on Stage and in the Power Point slide: Clock = Time, Money = Finances, Family and a Car = Resources – I believe in a principle I will call 10 - 3rd power. The Clock represents our time and parallels to the one who actually gave us all the gift of time – His name God the ...read more

  • Listen To The Description Of A Spirit-Filled Life ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 17, 2008
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    Listen to the description of a spirit-filled life by the ’Sunday Times’ journalist Matthew Parris – a man, who is by his own confession, not a Christian. “The New Testament offers a picture of God, who does not sound at all vague. He has sent His Son to earth. He has distinct plans for each of us ...read more

  • We Learn To Walk During The Good Times And The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
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    We learn to walk during the good times and the bad times: One night while conducting an evangelistic meeting in the Salvation Army Citadel in Chicago, Booth Tucker preached on the sympathy of Jesus. After his message a man approached him and said, “If your wife had just died, like mine has, and ...read more

  • Grim Reaper

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Grim Reaper According to an old fable, a man made an unusual agreement with Death. He told the Grim Reaper that he would willingly accompany him when it came time to die, but only on one condition—that Death would send a messenger well in advance to warn him. Weeks passed into months, and months ...read more

  • As Time Passed, However, The Inevitable ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    As time passed, however, the inevitable occurred. They began to lose and lose and lose. The blame fell, at least in part, not on Coach George Allen, but on a quarterback named Sonny Jurgenson, in my opinion one of the most gifted and effective quarterbacks to ever play the game. Jurgenson possesses ...read more

  • There Is A Poem Entitled "A Prayer For The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There is a poem entitled “A Prayer For the Future” quoted by Sir Frances Drake, it said and I quote, Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little, when we arrive safely because we have sailed too close to the ...read more

  • Early In The Nineteenth Century, The King Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
    based on 42 ratings
     | 4,761 views

    Early in the nineteenth century, the King of Prussia, Frederick William III, found his nation in great trouble. He had been attempting to bring prosperity to his land, but constant wars had drained the treasury. After prayerful consideration, he wrote an open letter to the women of Prussia asking ...read more

  • Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), The World-Famous ...

    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 23, 2007
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    Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), the world-famous violinist, earned a fortune with his concerts and compositions, but he generously gave most of it away. So, when he discovered an exquisite violin on one of his trips, he wasn’t able to buy it. He Later, having raised enough money to meet the asking ...read more

  • O Let Him ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Mar 19, 2009
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    “O Let Him In!” A picture of the Lord Jesus knocking at the door of a heart was taken one day by a parish visitor to a house where a father and mother lived with their small son. Some impulse made the mother pin the picture up in their little kitchen and when the small boy came in from school, he ...read more

  • You Can't Take It With ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
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    YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU Ann Landers had an interesting letter in one of her columns. She wrote about a man who earned a very good living, but refused to spend the money on anything. When he was dying, he said to his wife, "I want you to promise me one thing. Promise me that when I’m dead you’ll ...read more

  • Prejudiced Toward Attractive People

    Contributed by Nathan Ingram on Nov 30, 2009
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    PREJUDICED TOWARD ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE In her book Better Than Ever, Dr. Joyce Brothers, popular psych, shows we are prejudiced toward attractive people. We consistently judge beautiful people to be more sensitive, kind, intelligent, interesting, sociable, and exciting than less attractive people." ...read more

  • Oh, Let Him In!

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Dec 25, 2010
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    OH, LET HIM IN! A picture of the Lord Jesus knocking at the door of a heart was taken one day by a parish visitor to a house where a father and mother lived with their small son. Some impulse made the mother pin the picture up in their little kitchen, and when the small boy came in from school, ...read more

  • Wishing Vs. Hoping  PRO

    Contributed by Thomas Clawser on Dec 3, 2011
    based on 2 ratings
     | 4,958 views

    WISHING VS. HOPING Eugene Peterson (Living the Message: Daily Help for Living the God-Centered Life) points out that what a lot of people call hope is in reality something different. It's wishing, not hoping: and wishing and hoping are not the same thing. "Wishing," Peterson says, "is something ...read more