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    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jun 2, 2008
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    TITLES I have been a pastor at Shiloh Bible Church for eleven years. But my association with the church began long before that. My in-laws, Harold and Dorothy Wills, retired to the Bloomsburg area back in the 1980's and they started coming to Shiloh. And so when our family would come up from ...read more

  • Former Professional American Football Player And ...

    Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Jul 12, 2008
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    Former professional American football player and now coach of the Indianapolis Colts, Tony Dungy had an 18-year-old son James who died of an apparent suicide. Many newspapers and magazines wrote about Dungy's courage and strength in the wake of his son's death. Dungy ...read more

  • What Kind Of Shoes Are You?  PRO

    Contributed by Brian Lewis on Sep 25, 2008
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    What Kind of Shoes are YOU? House shoes/slippers: They are comfy, you can relax in them, maybe fall asleep. Beliefs: too comfy, too relaxed. Church is just a routine, been doing it for years, same pew. High heels: Vey stylish, but not very comfortable, probably hard to walk, although I wouldn't ...read more

  • Have You Ever Been Lost? I Am Not Talking About ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 27, 2008
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    Have you ever been lost? I am not talking about being lost on our way to another destination. That is frustrating and sometimes scary. I am talking about being lost here in our heads (point to head) and here in our hearts (point to heart.) David Damico would probably call this kind of loss "a ...read more

  • A Boy Is Sitting At An Airport With His Face ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Oct 16, 2008
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    A boy is sitting at an airport with his face pressed against the window looking at the planes. He seems to have a longing to fly into the heavens. We have a desire to see heaven - to see Jesus. Stephen saw the heavens opened and Jesus standing because of his ...read more

  • Stay On The Path

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Oct 23, 2008
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    Stay on the Path On vacation I hiked a pass overlooking the Loyalsock Creek in the mountains of Pennsylvania. It was a difficult incline that I estimate in many places to have been sixty degrees. There was a stern warning at the head of the trail that you should not stray from the path. As I ...read more

  • Jerry Bridges Again States That The Two Words ...

    Contributed by Todd Brock on Nov 13, 2008
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    Jerry Bridges again states that the two words negligence and corruption help us by contrast to understand what it means to live faithful lives today: He says – Corrupt is the opposite of being honest or ethical. Being negligent is the ...read more

  • Let's Say That I Give You A 25-Pound Sack Of ...

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Nov 17, 2008
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    Let’s say that I give you a 25-pound sack of corn, and that is all you will ever have. You love corn and want to enjoy it for the rest of your life. The only way that will be possible is for you to invest, or sow a portion of the seed for the future. For the corn to grow, or reproduce, it must be ...read more

  • The African Impala Can Jump To A Height Of Over ...

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Nov 17, 2008
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    The African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet. Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3-foot wall. The animals will not jump if they cannot see where their feet will fall. Faith is the ability to trust ...read more

  • The Golf Club

    Contributed by Michael West on Dec 20, 2008
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    The Golf Club There was a famous golfer who had been invited by the king of Saudi Arabia to play in a tournament. He accepted and was flown there by the King in his own private jet. They played golf, had a good time and the golfer went home. But before he left, the king offered the golfer anything ...read more

  • Chad Walsh: "I Suspect That Satan Has Called Off ...

    Contributed by Dave Browning on Dec 22, 2008
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    Chad Walsh: "I suspect that Satan has called off his attempt to convert people to agnosticism. After all, if a person travels far enough away from Christianity, he or she is always in danger of seeing it in perspective and deciding that it is true. It is much safer, from Satan's point of view, ...read more

  • The Meaning Of Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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    THE MEANING OF LIFE Atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell: "Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless." (Quoted in Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, 17). Welsh scholar Rheinallt Williams: "There is nothing which arises more spontaneously from man's nature than the ...read more

  • A Person Working In The U.s. Marine Corps Lives ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jan 22, 2009
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    A person working in the U.S. Marine Corps lives with a motto of commitment "Semper Fidelis: Always Faithful." He is to remain faithful – even unto death – for the cause of his country. What is NOT expected of him? • Take orders from the enemy ...read more

  • Annie Armstrong Was Called Indefatigable. She ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Annie Armstrong was called indefatigable. She never tired of serving God and serving People. In 1893 because of her belief in the powerful hand of God to change lives and our world she wrote over 18,000 letters many by hand. She was the driving force in founding the lottie Moon Christmas offering, ...read more

  • A Well-Known Athlete Of Avignon, France, Named ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A well-known athlete of Avignon, France, named Meissonnier, literally struggled with an incurable disease, and his last words were, “O Death if ...read more

  • In His Book Integrity, Ted Engstrom Tells This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In his book Integrity, Ted Engstrom tells this story: For Coach Cleveland Stroud and the Bulldogs of Rockdale County High School [Conyers, Georgia], it was their championship season: 21 wins and 5 losses on the way to the Georgia boys’ basketball tournament in March, then a dramatic ...read more

  • There Have Been Those, Some Of The Notable Men, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There have been those, some of the notable men, who have refused to cooperate with Christ and have come to a very ignoble finish in their lives. Two such people were the famous writers H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. They were brilliant men with worldly wisdom, yet they rejected the message of ...read more

  • A Striking Christmas Card Was Once Published ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A striking Christmas card was once published with the title "If Christ Had Not Come". It was founded upon our Savior’s words "If I had not come." The card represented a pastor’s falling into a short sleep in his study on Christmas morning and dreaming of a world into which Jesus had never come. ...read more

  • Novelist Ayn Rand Had Mesmerized A Student ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Novelist Ayn Rand had mesmerized a student audience at Yale University with her prickly ideas. Afterward a reporter from Time magazine asked her, "Miss Rand, what’s wrong with the modern world?" Without hesitation she replied, "Never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea ...read more

  • The Name Of The Author Was Not Attached To This ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The name of the author was not attached to this story where I found it. But the story makes a telling point. Listen to him/her: I heard an interesting comment at a meeting I attended in New York, and I made a note of it: Because Jean-Claude Killy, the world-famous skier, was three-tenths of a ...read more