Contributed by Eldon Reich on Mar 28, 2002
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“Stuart Briscoe tell the story of a friend who often used an old fruit tree to escape from his second story bedroom window, especially when his father was about to punish him. One day the father announced that he was going to cut down the old tree because it had not borne fruit in many years. That
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jan 4, 2007
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Story: “When Orders Conflict”
A young man about to enter the regular army was talking with an old soldier. The old soldier had been giving him some strong advice on the subject of obeying orders. “But suppose, General,” said the young man, “orders sometimes conflict. What am I to do in a case
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Walt Disney is given credit for an important one-liner: change is inevitable; growth is optional. Nancy Adler likens the challenge implied in this truth to a hot-air balloon ready for flight. The only thing preventing the balloonist’s soaring into the air is the load of sand ballast holding it
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 23, 2001
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"An intriguing sociological study asked fifty people over the age of ninety-five one question: ’If you could live your life over again, what would you do differently? Three answers continually emerged and dominated the results of the study:
· If I had to do it over again, I would reflect
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 15, 2002
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WHY DO WE "EAT HUMBLE PIE?"
In the Middle Ages, eating humble pie was something people did literally. "Umbles pie" was a meal consisting of the stringy or fatty remains of an animal (from the Latin lubulus, or loin), usually a deer. People who ate it were poor and, thus, humble. By the 16th
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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James the Less
Is supposed by some to have been the brother of our Lord, by a former wife of Joseph. This is very doubtful, and accords too much with the Catholic superstition, that Mary never had any other children except our Savior. He was elected to the oversight of the churches of Jerusalem;
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Charles Colson writes in his book, How Shall We Live, the solution to the modern day identity crisis of the American Christian. "How do we redeem a culture? How do we rise to the opportunity before us at the start of a new millennium? The answer is simple: from the inside out. From the individual
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2005
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A noted evangelist was coming to town and the organizers formed appropriate committees to prepare for the event. In its first meeting, the finance committee chair sadly announced that ’for lack of quorum’ the committee cannot transact business. He then suggested another meeting date and then asked
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Contributed by Guy Glass on Aug 5, 2005
We missed him. Our chance to change things came and passed and we did not know it was there. A dark-skinned little boy sat through Sunday School classes for three years at a great Baptist Church (First Church, San Antonio) but some one missed him. His name was Sirhan Sirhan, and at age 24 he shot
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Wireless Music According to an IDC study, U.S. wireless music services will have over 50 million users and generate more than a billion dollars in ’10. By the end of ‘06, the number of U.S. OTA customers, those with the ability to download and install content over a wireless network, will be
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Contributed by Ted Mulder on Mar 24, 2007
C.S. Lewis observed, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English
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Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Feb 21, 2008
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There was a boy who was very popular among others his age. He was an excellent leader in his school groups. One of his friends visited him and saw a homemade plaque in his room with the words "I Am Third" on it. His friend asked him what it meant and he replied, "It is the motto I try to use in my
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A homeless drug addict in June 1984, John Corapi stumbled back into his mother’s house, with what he called all the forces of hell riding on his shoulder. He prayed for the first time in years and experienced the mercy of God, a sense of peace that replaced the wrath he had felt until then. He
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Snyder notes:
"What did Jesus mean? Certainly he did not mean everything that Christians through the ages have taken from these words. Jesus distinguishes here between something essential and primary (the wine) and something secondary but also necessary and useful (the wineskins). Wineskins would
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 24, 2012
STATISTICS ON ALCOHOL USE
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reports that per capita consumption of alcohol by Americans age 14 and older has dropped from 2.75 gallons in 1980 to 2.31 in 2007. Good news but consider the number who are addicted to drugs. Drug abuse continues
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