Contributed by Paul Newell on Dec 4, 2006
Several months ago I read Jim Collins’ book, Good to Great , in it he describes what he calls the flywheel principle (pg.165). I’ve modified his illustration a little and I call mine “the merry-go-round effect”. Here’s the point.
As a kid I used to love to go to the playground with my friends.
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Baptist
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Buddhism has a story similar to the story Jesus told about the Prodigal Son. In the story Jesus told, the father sees his wayward son, and runs to greet him. The prodigal says he no longer deserves to be considered a son, but the loving father throws a party for him and freely restores him to
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Christian/Church Of Christ
You’ve heard of self-defining moments, I’m sure. A self-defining moment occurs when something happens that determines your identity from that instant forward. Because of some event or incident, whatever it may be, you will never be the same again.
I had such a moment each time my children were
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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There is a picture mounted on one of the original Norman pillars of our Church here at St Nicholas’ Church in New Romney, Kent, England.
You will find it on the pillar closest to the war memorial at the back of Church and it is about a game of Chess.
In the picture, Faust is engaged in a
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Anglican
Contributed by Tom Dooley on May 11, 2001
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Several years ago in the movie Hoosiers, Gene Hackman played the part of Norman Dale, a former college coach with a tainted past who was hired to coach a rural high-school basketball team from Hickory, Indiana. Coach Dale leads the team all the way to the state finals. On the day of the
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Leighton Farrell was the minister of Highland Park Church in Dallas for many years. He tells of a man in the church who once made a covenant with a former pastor to tithe ten percent of their income every year. They were both young and neither of them had much money. But things changed. The layman
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2002
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In his book, In the Heavenlies, Dr. Harry Ironside tells the story of an attempted assassination of Queen Elizabeth I. The woman who sought to do so dressed as a male page and secreted herself in the queen’s boudoir awaiting the convenient moment to stab the queen to death. She did not realize that
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 31, 2002
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Just out in this past Thursday’s USATODAY website (May 30,2002) – “Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the war against terrorism following weeks of revelations about missed clues and warnings of likely future attacks. Only four in 10 Americans believe the United States and its allies are
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Evangelical Free
I almost lost the that which is most precious to me almost 3 years ago. I was here doing some interviews for Day Camp Staff when the phone rang. It was a friend of my wife, Joanne, who called to say that Joanne had just been loaded into an ambulance and was being taken to the U of A hospital.
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Baptist
Contributed by Ronald Keller on Oct 15, 2002
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“THEOLOGY IN THE PEW”
“A large share of people who attend Protestant or Catholic churches have adopted beliefs that conflict with the teachings of the Bible and their church, according to the latest release from the Barna Research Group (www.barna.org).
There are some fundamental Christian precepts
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Nazarene
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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MAKING THE CONNECTION
In a seminary missions class, Herbert Jackson told how, as a new missionary, he was assigned a car that would not start without a push. After pondering his problem, he devised a plan. He went to the school near his home, got permission to take some children out of class, and
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 10, 2001
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Corrie ten Boom told of not being able to forget a wrong that had been done to her. She had forgiven the person, but she kept rehashing the incident and so couldn’t sleep. Finally Corrie cried out to God for help in putting the problem to rest. "His help came in the form of a kindly Lutheran
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Darrell Jones on Feb 21, 2003
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Not long ago there lived an old bed-ridden saint of God, and a Christian lady who visited her always finding her friend to be cheerful. this visitor had a lady friend of great wealth who always took the dark side of things, and was always cast down although she was a professed Christian. She
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Donald Smith on Apr 24, 2003
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This week, I made my monthly trip to Kingsley Place (assisted living center) to sing for the residents there (They love to have me come because I sing the songs that they grew up with and I love to go there because they let me sing the songs that I grew up with).
I began by singing a couple of
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 27, 2004
Have you ever been a parent waiting, watching and helping your child to take that first step or two without holding on to some thing. You brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles get in on this too. My daughter started walking by holding onto a coffee table when we lived in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 21, 2004
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A MOTHER'S LOVE
One of the most touching elements of the film "The Passion of the Christ" is the mother-son relationship. Every mother can relate to Mary’s total commitment to her son. Here’s the story of a modern day mother and her love for her son, as told by one member of the staff at Campus
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