Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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The late great American jurist, judge, author, and Christian apologist, Simon Greenleaf (1783 - 1853), once said:
"There should be a readiness on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of
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Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
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In an interview with C-SPAN Sykes said: ""All of us in some sense can blame
somebody else for our problems. Mommy and Daddy are a good target, but also
we all want to be loved and we would wish that everything was suited for us,
that all of our needs were taken care of. That¡¦s what it was like
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 26, 2002
THE NARCOTIC OF WORK
Most of us are familiar with the term workaholic. It was coined by Dr. Wayne Oates in 1968 in an article he wrote for a psychology journal. I had the pleasure of studying under Dr. Oates during part of my graduate-school years. He chose the word workaholic because of his
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Contributed by Mark Hensley on May 11, 2002
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A teacher asked a boy this question: “Suppose your mother baked a pie and there were seven of you—your parents and five children. What part of the pie would you get?” “A sixth,” replied the boy. “I’m afraid you don’t know your fractions,” said the teacher. “Remember, there are seven of you.”
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Contributed by Don Hawks on Jul 31, 2002
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In the news last week was the story of the rescue of the 9 miners from the PA coal mine. A large part of their survival was their encouragement of one another. One of the miners said, “We decided we were all going to live together or die together.”
Your words of encourgament are like the leaven
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Methodist
Sir Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese guide, Tenzing Norgay, were the first people to make the historic climb of Mount Everest in 1953. Coming down from the mountain peak, Sir Edmund suddenly lost his footing. Tenzing held the line taut and kept them both from falling by digging his ax into the
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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Seems St. Peter and the Devil had an agreement to share the costs of maintaining the fence between Heaven and Hell.
One weekend there was a bit of a brawl in Hell that got out of hand, and part of the fence was smashed. It went unfixed for weeks and St. Peter approached the Devil about mending
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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A man who first pastored and nurtured a church brings in an assistant to help with the work, a hand-picked man. Later, both men do church planting work together for a couple of years, then return to the home church. A sharp disagreement arises over an issue they both view as a matter of principle,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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It was absolutely amazing. I was in West Africa—Timbuktu to be exact—and the missionaries were telling me that in that culture the larger the women were the more beautiful they were thought to be. In fact, a young missionary who had a small, trim wife said that the nationals had told him she was a
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 30, 2006
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Listen to this quote by British Justice Peter Smith, that I found on Foxnews.com:
"Merely because an author describes matters as being factually correct does not mean that they are factually correct. It is a way of blending fact and fiction together to create that well known model ’faction.’ The
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 26, 2007
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When we pray for other people and focus on their needs and concerns we are involved in a significant form of volunteerism – we are investing our time in the lives of other people and when we do that, personal benefits are returned to us. We begin to feel a sense of value and purpose when we are
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Perry Greene on May 17, 2012
CONNECTING WITH THE COMMON MAN
Sam Walton was in the mid 90s named as one of the richest men in America. You'd never know it! He drove a pickup and lived like a regular person. Asked why he didn't drive a Rolls Royce, he replied, "Where would I put my dogs?" He was successful at least in part
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