Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Nov 10, 2006
In our home we have a set of children’s books that are designed to teach kids their ABC’s and 123’s. The very 1st book in the number set is entitled My One Book. The book is about little one who lived in the house of one. The house of one has one door, one table, one chair, one window ... you get
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Ethical Dilemma Prospective parents using in vitro fertilization have been using a procedure, known as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (P.G.D), for more than a decade to screen for genes certain to cause childhood diseases that are severe and largely untreatable. A growing number of couples (some
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Abstinence Up U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials, Wade Horn and Jeffrey Trimbath, publicly defend abstinence education programs. They claim the goal of such programs is to delay teens’ introduction to sexual activity, noting reliable statistics indicate that’s exactly what it
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
Illustration: Before making Sony one of the most consistently inventive companies in the world, founder Masaru Ibuka suffered a number of setbacks. Remember the electronic seat warmer? Or the first electronic rice cooker? These were from the same mind that dreamed up the pocket-size transistor
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Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
If God is to develop His plan in your life and you are to work at it with all your heart, then you must grow new spiritual muscle for the challenge. As a runner begins to train, his or her entire being is transformed. Within weeks of starting training the runner actually grows new capillaries.
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 15, 2007
Ravi Zacharias tells of visiting a used bookstore. While he was there, wistfully searching through the classics, suddenly a man burst in and demanded in a loud voice, "How much for 128 feet of books?" The owner, having never sold scholarship by the foot, didn’t know exactly how to reply.
The
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Mar 27, 2007
Two hundred years ago, on 25th March 1807, the British parliament voted in favour of a law that would have consequences all around the known world. This new law was the abolition of human slavery. This act of 1807 was one of the most humanitarian pieces of legislation ever enacted in a British
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Baptist
Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jan 5, 2003
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A “lame duck” President met with his successor in the Oval Office. Near the end of the orientation, he presented the incoming leader three numbered envelopes, with specific instructions to open them, in order, when great difficulties arose. After the new President completed his “honeymoon” period
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Congregational
Contributed by Roz Mason on Jan 14, 2003
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Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
A number of years ago one of the young men in my youth group bought a 1956 Ford pick-up truck. It didn’t run at the time and hasn’t since. He was going to fix the truck up and started to accumulate
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Methodist
Contributed by James O. Davis on Oct 28, 2003
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It is interesting that history reveals a population of 1 billion people from the time of Adam until the year 1830. One hundred years later, in the year 1930, there were 2 billion people on the earth. From 1930 to 1960, a period of thirty years, the world population stood at 3 billion people.
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Contributed by Charles Tucker on Dec 16, 2003
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With all the hustle and bustle, I thought we needed to be reminded why Christmas is a good idea. Without Christmas…
• The candied fruit market would completely collapse!
• Our boring, uneventful lives would have no stress at all!
• Eggnog would just be a slimy, high cholesterol beverage.
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Contributed by Amanda Wilson on May 3, 2004
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Another movie I saw recently was the Fellowship of the Ring. It too is about the use of power, in particular a magic ring that gives its wearer the power to control all living things. “One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 24, 2007
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A “lame duck” President met with his successor in the Oval Office. Near the end of the orientation, he presented the incoming leader three numbered envelopes, with specific instructions to open them, in order, when great difficulties arose.
After the new President completed his “honeymoon” period
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 27, 2007
We lived in Montrose, CO for four years and often went to the town of Telluride. Telluride is a beautiful resort town, with skiing and a gondola and much more. But it didn’t always have a good reputation. To this day to get to Telluride you must drive a narrow, curvy, two lane road. Back in the
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Christian Church
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 14, 2008
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FAITH IS KNOWING, BELIEVING AND PERSONALLY TRUSTING
• Imagine a ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean it is filled with people and in the middle of the ocean there is an explosion. Many people lose their lives,, but a number are still alive. They begin to run to the lifeboats.
• The 1st man though
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Baptist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 9, 2008
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PROMISE?
We make a lot of promises to others and many promises are made to us. Sadly, too many promises are broken on both ends of the equation. God, however, never breaks a promise.
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Don’t let the broken promises of this world keep you from believing the promises of God.
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 3, 2008
In the last hour, while we were in Sunday school -- or any hour, for that matter, here is what typically happens in this world.
2,738 people died from starvation
342 people died from malaria
76 mothers died from childbirth
9,582 babies died from induced abortion
8,898 infants and children were
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Contributed by Shawn Rose on Dec 27, 2008
1 Corinthians 15:51, 52 “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
A farmer takes his family to
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Contributed by Daniel Austin on Dec 30, 2008
Josh McDowell lists 61 major prophecies that were fulfilled in the birth, life, and death of Jesus. Peter Stoner, a mathematician, applied the principles of probability to just 8 of these prophecies.
ILL: Imagine covering the state of Texas with silver dollars 2 feet deep. The number of silver
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