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  • Robert Redford Was Walking One Day Through A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Robert Redford was walking one day through a hotel lobby. A woman saw him and followed him to the elevator. "Are you the real Robert Redford?" she asked him with great excitement. As the doors of the elevator closed, he replied, "Only when I am alone" I would say this is true for ...read more

  • C.s Lewis: Tells The Story Of A Wasp Enjoying ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    C.S Lewis: tells the story of a wasp enjoying himself sucking the goodness on the the jam whilst the rest of its body has been decapitated – The wasp continues sucking unknowing to its condition. He says it’s a picture of human nature today we enjoy the sweet pleasures of life yet we fail ...read more

  • Growing Up My Father Always Read The Bible ...

    Contributed by Steven Wunderink on Jul 3, 2007
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    Ill. Growing up my father always read the Bible after EVERY meal. Each week he would open the Bible to the place marked where he left off until he came to about halfway through Exodus. Then he would say ¡§A bunch of laws and how to build things¡¨ and then he would pick it up ...read more

  • Asking The Tough Questions Is Good Medicine! ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 11, 2007
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    Asking the tough questions is good medicine! James L. Mays, Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Interpretation at Union Theological Seminar in Virginia talks about how “Christians who live in a world that constantly raises the question ‘Where is your God’ {shows} the real nature of our ...read more

  • Christians And Non-Christians. Believers And ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 11, 2007
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    Christians and non-Christians. Believers and non-believers. Sinners saved and lost. That is really the only significant difference between men, and I use the word ‘men’ generically; you have heard His words with ears of faith and been declared right with Him or you have heard His words with ears ...read more

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer Said, "He Who Is Alone With ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 19, 2007
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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone.” In fact he goes on to say, “The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everyone must conceal his sin from himself and from their fellowship. We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when ...read more

  • Accustom Your Children Constantly To This [the ...

    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 5, 2008
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    “Accustom your children constantly to this [the telling of the truth]; if a thing happened at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end.… It is more from carelessness ...read more

  • J. Gordon Once Said, "I Have Long Since Ceased To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    J. Gordon once said, “I have long since ceased to pray, “Lord Jesus, have compassion on a lost world!” I remember the day and the hour when I seemed to hear the Lord rebuking me for making such a prayer. He seemed to say to me, “I have had compassion upon a lost world, and now ...read more

  • Computers And Spouses Today 8 In 10 Americans ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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    Computers and Spouses Today 8 in 10 Americans are more dependent on their computers than 3 years ago, claims a Kelton Research study. 65% of consumers are spending more time with a computer than with their spouse. “As computers become increasingly pervasive in our lives, our relationships with them ...read more

  • John Vianney, 18th Century Pastor, Is Quoted As ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2008
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    John Vianney, 18th Century Pastor, is quoted as saying, “Love for our neighbor consists of three things: to desire the greater good of everyone; to do what good we can when we can; to bear, excuse, and hide other’s faults. The kind of love that Jesus is talking about here is the sacrificial love of ...read more

  • Two Men Were Talking One Day When A Church Lady ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Mar 9, 2009
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    Two men were talking one day when a church lady came walking up the road. One turned to the other and said, “That’s sister Brown. She has nothing bad to say about anyone.” The other one, wanting to put it to the test said, “Sister Brown, what do you ...read more

  • Dennis The Menace Was Caught Causing Trouble ...

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 29, 2009
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    Dennis the Menace was caught causing trouble around the house and his mother had all she could take from him and said to him, "Dennis the way you’re behaving, how do you expect to get into heaven?" To that Dennis said, "Well, I’ll just keep slamming the door ...read more

  • Attitude Pattern: Jonah

    Contributed by Timothy Gardner on Nov 7, 2009
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    ATTITUDE PATTERN: JONAH The pattern of attitude toward God: We bailed when God says go. A storm brews. Our shipmates are scared. We admit it’s our fault. We are thrown from the boat. We sink. Something big swallows us. We repent. We pray ...read more

  • As Christian We Might Have Dropped Some Of Those ...

    Contributed by Ladonna Omobude on Nov 24, 2009
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    As Christian we might have dropped some of those four lettered curse words; however we still curse others by speaking evil and wishing evil upon them. The Bible says in James 3:10"Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so ...read more

  • Quote: C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
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    Quote: C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed: "You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang ...read more

  • Our Words

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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    OUR WORDS Did you know that the average person spends one-fifth of his or her life talking? That’s what the statistics say. If all of our words were put into print, the result would be this: A single day’s words would fill a 50-page book, while ...read more

  • You Be Jesus!

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Apr 5, 2011
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    YOU BE JESUS! A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. "If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, 'Let my brother have the first ...read more

  • Prayer Of The Persecuted

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 25, 2011
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    PRAYER OF THE PERSECUTED Author Eugene Peterson says in Reversed Thunder, "While conflicts raged between good and evil, prayers went up from devout bands of 1st c. Christians all over the Roman empire. Massive engines of persecution and scorn were ranged against them. They had neither weapons ...read more

  • Gift Giving Should Be Personal And Relational

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Dec 11, 2011
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    GIFT GIVING SHOULD BE PERSONAL AND RELATIONAL Have you ever seen the episode of "Friends" where Joey and Chandler wait too long to buy Christmas gifts? They end up having to buy gifts from a gas station. They give Rachael wiper blades and an air freshener. When Rachel ...read more

  • Salt In The Shaker

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 23, 2012
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    SALT IN THE SHAKER A strange sign greets visitors to Vienna, Austria. Translated from the German, it says, "Welcome to Vienna, where the salt is in the saltshaker." What they mean is that they "don't put salt on the streets in the winter"! The church is the salt of the earth, but we do no good ...read more