Contributed by Dana Chau on Mar 22, 2002
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Probably no foreigner exerted greater leadership over the people of Shaohsing, China, in the early twentieth century than Dr. Claude H. Barlow. This self-effacing medical missionary was the personification of a God-influenced life.
A strange disease for which he knew no remedy was killing the
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Jun 6, 2002
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What Prayer Is…
Prayer is coming into the presence of God…
Prayer is entering the throne room of the KING of kings and LORD of lords…
Prayer is taking our concerns to the one who cares for me
Prayer is to stand on holy ground…
Prayer is communicating with the creator of the world…(the one spoke
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 9, 2002
[illustration, Brian L. Harbour, Rising Above the Crowd.]
The year was 1920.
The scene was the examining board for selecting missionaries.
Standing before the board was a young man named Oswald Smith.
One dream dominated his heart.
He wanted to be a missionary.
Over and over again, he prayed,
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 27, 2002
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RE-INTRODUCING THE DEVIL
In a British radio broadcast circa 1943, reading one of his own essays, C. S. Lewis was discussing some of the basic Christian beliefs. In talking about the personal existence of the devil, Lewis anticipated the scoffing of the so-called enlightened modern thinkers who
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 16, 2002
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In the Fall of 2000 and winter of 2001, any time you would turn on the news, you would constantly hear about the
Presidential election and what one side was accusing the other of doing and vice versa. Through all the jokes and news coverage, something did occur to me as I listened while I looked
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2002
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THE KEY TO HAPPINESS
Gratitude is nothing less than the key to happiness.
For this penetrating insight into gratefulness, I am grateful to Dennis Prager, author of the shrewd and perceptive "Happiness is a Serious Problem."
"There is a 'secret to happiness,'" Prager writes, "and it is
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Contributed by Jane White on Dec 6, 2002
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There was a priest in Dublin who explained the difference between this life and the next life by talking about the life of the dragonfly. At the bottom of the pond little grubs were crawling around. They wonder what happens to their members who climb up the stem of the lily and never come back.
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Methodist
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“In 1973 Gary Kildall wrote the first popular operating system for personal computers, named CP/M. According to writer Philip Fiorini, IBM approached Kildall in 1980 about developing the operating system for IBM PCs. But Kildall snubbed IBM officials at a crucial meeting, according to another
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Contributed by Fred Sigle on Oct 18, 2000
In October 1991, George Hennard Jr. drove his pickup truck through a cafeteria window in Killeen, Texas, and then started RANDOMLY shooting people while they were having LUNCH. Before putting the gun to himself, he killed 24 people and wounded 22 more. On an Oprah Winfrey episode a few months
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Contributed by Jeff Simms on Sep 16, 2003
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Last time I took my driver’s test, I had to take an eye exam. I tried it
first without glasses. The lady asked me to read the bottom line. It told her I
didn’t see a bottom, middle or top line. I told her all I saw was a white page.
She told me to put on my glasses. I did-- and magically 3
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 17, 2003
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"Most everyone knows of the newspaper comic strip called “Family Circus”. It pokes fun in a gentle way at the typical family life in a home with several very young children.
I remember one that started out with the mother giving the oldest boy, who appears to be about 6, something to take to the
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Orthodox
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Do you remember last summer’s amazing rescue of the nine miners trapped in the Quecreek mine in Pennsylvania? I remember staying up into the early morning hours and watching as they were hauled out of the darkness to safety one-by-one. But the rescue was anything but easy. A drill bit broke in
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Contributed by Dennis Fakes on Nov 10, 2003
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One member of the church was a very wealthy man who had never been known for his generosity. The church was involved in a big financial program and they resolved to pay this man a visit. When the committee met with him one afternoon, they said that in view of his considerable resources they were
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Contributed by Corey Arnold on Nov 17, 2003
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Daniel Meyers speaks about a book written by a cardiologist at the University of Tennessee that corroborates an important aspect of the biblical message. In the course of their emergency room work, Dr. Maurice Rawlings and his colleagues interviewed more than 300 people who claimed near-death
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 30, 2004
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[Illustration]
Jesus stressed the positive effect we can have on others when He said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16 RSV).
But if sin dims our testimony so that our “light” is no longer visible,
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Opening Illustration from Step Mom:
Scene were the dad explains to the children what happened to his and their mothers love for one another. He misrepresents what Love really is. But this scene shows that the world does not know what true love is.
Luke explains to his children why he and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2004
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When I was learning to ride there stood in a field a huge tree trunk, it was massive. Such was the size it made the Channel Tunnel look like a drain pipe, this thing was seriously big. We avoided it like the plague, actually we could never understand why it was there for surely no rider and horse
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