Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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IT'S ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
According to the Stanford Research Institute, the money made in any endeavor is determined only 12.5% by knowledge, and 87.5% by your ability to deal with people. 68% of customers quit shopping with you because of an attitude of indifference toward them by an employee.
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Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
The law of first things says that Whatever is done with the first determines the rest. Why is that so important to God? If He is God, He doesn’t need my sheep or my money! That’s true. He puts this principle in His word because He wants
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Baptist
Contributed by Hugh Laing on Feb 15, 2010
Christ body...the church has became fat, lazy, forgot how to pray, wealthy in possessions, and so worldly and wrapped up in our own things we just forgot how to deny SELF...and the worse part is it happened to us individually as well as (coeporaTELY)to our
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Baptist
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GIVING BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO
One Saturday I was working in the yard, and I came walking around the corner of my house. And there was a boy there, on a bicycle. He was wearing Scout uniform, and I’m guessing he must have been about ten or eleven years old. It didn’t take me long to figure out what he
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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GOOD GIFTS
Go to God--he is the source of our goodness on this earth.
Matthew 7:11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
This story about Hudson Taylor, a well-known
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 3, 2005
As Roy Lessin writes: “If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us
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Christian Church
Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Nov 15, 2007
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A certain man, well-known for his constant complaining, inherited a large sum of money. When he got it, he complained about how it was not much as he thought it should be. He bought a farm and asked his wife what she thought he
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Baptist
Contributed by Donny Granberry on Feb 17, 2008
ILLUSTRATION
Andy Griffith Show.
Episode where a bully was taking Opie’s milk money.
Andy told him, there will be a lot of bully’s in the world; you have got to stand up to them.
He stood up to the bully, got a black eye, and lit into that bully like a
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Sep 8, 2009
ENJOYABLE GIVING
A panhandler asked a woman for money, and she dug in her purse and handed him a dollar bill. As she did, she admonished him, "I’ll give you a dollar—-not because you deserve it, but because it pleases me."
"Thank you, ma’am," he
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Aug 14, 2001
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ILL. Chuck Swindoll tells about a couple who went into a crowded fried chicken franchise & ordered a picnic box to go. In the rush of business a clerk accidentally handed them the picnic box in which the manager had hidden the deposit he was about to take to the bank. Fearful of being robbed, he
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Danny Rogers on Nov 29, 2006
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There have been times when we have gone to a high school football/basketball game and the kids asked for some money to buy candy. I gave them $5 and they returned with some candy. I ask for a piece and their answer is “no.” Here is what they don’t realize. First – I could take the candy away and
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