Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 31, 2002
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Definition of Worldliness: Worldliness is the lust of the flesh (a passion for sensual satisfaction), the lust of the eyes (an inordinate desire for the finer things of life), and the pride of life (self-satisfaction in who we are, what we have, and what we have done). Worldliness, then, is a
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Sometimes my 2 ½ yr old son wakes up crying in the middle of the night. Joanne usually goes in, sometimes we both will if he’s really upset. Sometimes, as she holds him, I lean in and place my cheek against his cheek, or on his forehead, right in close. And I whisper, “It’s ok Thomas. Mommy
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THE RESOURCES WE NEED
Federal Express, a speedy postal delivery company, once ran a commercial similar to movie Castaway, in which Tom Hanks played a FedEx worker whose company plane went down, stranding him on a desert island for years.
Looking like Tom Hanks in the movie, the FedEx employee
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 22, 2004
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There is a plaque on a church building in England that reads like this: "In the year 1653, when all things sacred throughout the land were either demolished or profaned, Sir Robert Shirley built this church. His singular praise is this: To have done the best of things in the worst of times." In
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 14, 2004
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Jean Nidetch, a 214-pound homemaker desperate to lose weight, went to the New York City Department of Health, where she was given a diet devised by Dr. Norman Jolliffe. Two months later, discouraged about the 50 plus pounds still to go, she invited six overweight friends home to share the diet and
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2004
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There was a man going to work one morning, when he was pulled over by a state trooper, the trooper walked up to the man’s car and said, sir did you not see the stop sign? The man replied I have been traveling this hiway for 20 years, and have never stopped at that sign, the trooper said well you
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 25, 2004
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There was a military officer who happened to stop by an island in the South Pacific. The military officer discovered that the island was inhabited by cannibals. Cannibals are humans who eat other humans. One day he came cross an old tribal chief. He saw the chief reading the Bible in the
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Years ago at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, a young sociology profess assigned his class to a city slum to interview 200 boys. "On the basis of your findings predict their future” he instructed the class. Shocked at what they had seen in the slums the students estimated that 90% of the
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Contributed by Bill Whittaker on Nov 23, 2004
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Keep yourself pure. Be an example of the believer in purity. This high calling is only possible with God’s help. Cynthia was invited to a slumber party with three of her jigh school friends. They were having a good time when one of the girls said, “Let’s invite the guys over for the night.” Her
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jan 29, 2005
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Recently I heard an amazing story of human strength. Four soldiers in Afghanistan were riding in a jeep when suddenly they were ambushed. They were on a narrow mountain road and the only way out was to go in the opposite direction, but there wasn’t room to turn the jeep around without going over
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Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Jul 23, 2005
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ILLUSTRATION - Self Evaluation
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State employment officials in Tucson, Arizona, posted an interesting sign over a full-length mirror. Directed to all job hunters, it read, “Would you hire this person?” In another office a mirror and sign posed this question: “Are you
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Charismatic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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New Barna Research has discovered that a person’s lifelong behaviors and views are generally developed when they are young – usually prior to reaching teen years. The research showed 4 critical outcomes. First, a person’s moral foundations are generally in place by the time they reach 9. Their
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Feb 26, 2006
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Missionary Robert Porteous and his wife were taken prisoners by Chinese communist bandits in 1931. This missionary couple was led to a lonely spot on top of a hill where they were to be executed. The Chinese leader said, “This is the place.” and the executioner took a long knife from its holder
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Apr 15, 2006
It’s amazing that sometimes in our twisted world that what’s right can be unjust - that some things that are legal don’t give justice to others. Perennially perky lawyer, Elle Woods understands that. She had just discovered that the mother of her Chihuahua, Bruiser, is being used in animal testing.
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 29, 2006
A story is told about the old-time evangelist Dwight L. Moody, the untrained, unschooled, powerful evangelist who simply committed himself to serving Jesus Christ with his whole heart and his whole life.
When Mr. Moody was in London during one of his famous evangelistic tours, several British
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Story: Some years ago when Johnny Carson was the host of the well known American chat show: The Tonight Show he interviewed an eight year old boy.
The boy was asked to appear because he had
rescued two friends in a coalmine outside his hometown in West Virginia.
As Carson questioned the boy, it
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Anglican
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