I love doing chidren's sermons, but it doesn't always work out quite the way I expect. So it went one morning when I spoke to the children about the loaves and fish.
Just to make my point, I began by showing them five rolls and two fish sticks on a plate. I asked them how to share it so that all
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Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 20, 2021
It’s a sad day when people are offered the kingdom of heaven, but they don’t see its value. They set it aside as a common thing and go their way. Image going to an antique store and finding a priceless antique there. The seller has priced it as a common item. But it is worth many times more than
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Charismatic
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 21, 2025
[172]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – LIVING WITH DENIAL AND REJECTION (Evolution)
This poem takes up the challenge against evolution. The main thought here is that the whole theory (more an hypothesis) is based on absurdity.
When in desperate situations people clasp onto something to hold them up,
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Contributed by James Buchanan on Sep 12, 2003
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The Bible Society of South Africa reports that in an early draft of their translation of the Bible into Southern Sotho (one of many South African dialects), the typesetter typed "jwala" (which means "beer") instead of "jwalo" (which is translated "so"). The result of Genesis 1:9
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 9, 2007
Ten Basic Statements about Ministry
Warren and David Wiersbe, said in their book: Making Sense of the Ministry
1. The foundation of ministry is character.
2. The nature of ministry is service.
3. The motive for ministry is love.
4. The measure of ministry is sacrifice.
5. The authority of ministry
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Contributed by Dru Ashwell on Dec 16, 2001
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In Bill Gates’ new book Business @ The Speed of Thought, he lays out 11 rules that students do not learn in high school or college, but should.
He argues that our feel-good, politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality who are set up for failure in the
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 3, 2005
The movie, "Chariots of Fire" tells the true story of Eric Liddel, an Olympic runner who won a Gold medal for Scotland in the 1930’s. Liddel’s parents were missionaries to China and Eric and his sister Jenny were going to China to be missionaries too. But when Eric decided to delay going to China
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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Hispanics remain the USA’s fastest-growing minority group, but most of the population increase comes from births here rather than immigration, according to the Census Bureau. 60% of the 1.3 million new Hispanics in ‘05 are U.S. citizens by birth. In effect, even if immigration came to a standstill,
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
Young Families In Debt
Spending habits of young married couples with children (both spouses 18 to 25): Average after-tax income, $19,783. Average annual spending, $21,401.
Family Economics Review, quoted in U.S.A.
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Contributed by Matt Neace on Jun 19, 2018
In World magazine, Michael Cochrane shares about a new technology called “augmented reality” (AR). Using this “augmented reality” a group of researchers from Cal Tech developed an app for Microsoft’s HoloLens. This app enables blind people to navigate through buildings.
According to the MIT
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Baptist
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Video Clip: Dead Man Walking: From Videos that Teach -- Fields and James page 52
Can anyone, no matter what they have done, become a child of God?
The Movie: Drama R
Sister Helen Prejan (Susan Sarandon) is a nun who receives a desperate letter from a death row inmate, Matthew Poncelet (Sean
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Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 22, 2006
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ILLUS: There was an item printed in Newsweek magazine a few years ago. It was a letter from
the Greenville County, South Carolina, Department of Social Services. The letter was written to
a dead person. It said: "To whom it may concern: Your food stamps will be stopped effective
immediately,
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Tobin Crenshaw on Aug 15, 2010
Dean Karnazes is a modern day Superman. He has run fifty marathons in fifty days in fifty states, and runs ultra marathons of over 200 miles. He details his amazing accomplishments in his book Ultramarathon Man.
After one particularly grueling 200 mile marathon he shared the following contents of
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