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  • The Christian Leader Profile™ Categorizes Leaders ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    The Christian Leader Profile™ categorizes leaders into one of four types: Directing, Strategic, Team-Building or Operational. Directing leaders, tend to be the “big picture,” motivational leaders focus people’s attention on vision for the future, are most likely to exhibit biblical values. However, ...read more

  • Once I Was Walking Through A Store When A Little ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Jun 22, 2006
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    Once I was walking through a store when a little statue of Jesus caught my attention. Actually, it wasn’t a statue, it was a dash ornament called Buddy Jesus. The statue portrayed Jesus grinning like an infomercial host, with one hand thumbs up and one hand doing a phony Hollywood "Bang-bang" ...read more

  • Someone Once Asked Radio Commentator Paul Harvey ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Someone once asked radio commentator Paul Harvey to reveal the secret of his success. Here’s what he said: "I get up when I fall down," Bits & Pieces, March 3, 1994, p. 16. That’s pretty simple, but I think race-car-driver Bill Vukovich might have him beat. When someone asked Vukovich the Secret ...read more

  • Ready For Resurrection Morning

    Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 29, 2008
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    READY FOR RESURRECTION MORNING A true story is told about a distinguished man, the only white person buried in a Georgia cemetery reserved exclusively for blacks. He had lost his mother when he was just a baby. His father, who never married again, hired a black woman named Mandy to help raise his ...read more

  • Have Any Of You Read The Book, The Worst-Case ...

    Contributed by Brian La Croix on Nov 19, 2008
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    Have any of you read the book, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht? It’s a great little yellow book that describes all sorts of ways to get out of even life-threatening situations. Here’s how they describe getting free from an alligator: How to Wrestle ...read more

  • A Good ...

    Contributed by Dwight L. Moody on Jun 11, 2009
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    A GOOD MOTHER (a classic illustration by D. L. Moody) A young man went home from one of our meetings some time ago. He had been converted. He had previously been a dissipated young man. His mother had made it a rule, she told me, that she "would not retire till he came home." That was her rule, ...read more

  • Planet Of The Year

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 19, 2009
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    PLANET OF THE YEAR Time Magazine in 1989 celebrated not the Person of the Year but the Planet of Year. It was a wakeup call for me and convicted me and my faith. "Through most of his 2 million years or so of existence, man has thrived in earth's environment -- perhaps too well.... The reason is ...read more

  • Office Worker Reads Bible In Secret At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2009
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    Office Worker Reads Bible In Secret at Work When I was a college student I worked for a time in a government office. I noticed after a while in that office that one of the engineers whose desk was back-to-back with mine would perform a little lunch hour ritual involving something in his desk ...read more

  • God's Grace Is Like Lightning And Transforms ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 19, 2009
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    God’s Grace Is Like Lightning and Transforms Whoever it Strikes Martin Luther found that out. Walking through the forest one day, praying and working through spiritual torment, literally, the lightning did strike close by. And he felt that as the summons of God. Luther came closer, and when God ...read more

  • Huck Finn On Prayer

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Apr 5, 2011
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    HUCK FINN ON PRAYER There’s an incident in Huckleberry Finn where Mark Twain has Huck make a very human observation. "Miss Watson took me into a closet and prayed, but nothing came of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for, I would get. But it weren't so. I tried it. Once I ...read more

  • Mom's Church  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2011
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    MOM'S CHURCH Four scholars were arguing over Bible translations. One said he preferred the King James Version because of its beauty, eloquent old English. Another said he preferred the American Standard Bible for its literalism, the way it moves the reader from passage to passage with confident ...read more

  • Spiritual Consumerism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2011
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    SPIRITUAL CONSUMERISM In February 27 2009 article from the website “Slate” titled, “Why American churchgoers like to shop around” also caught my attention. That article cited statistics from a Barna Group survey that revealed that one in seven adults changes churches each year, and another one in ...read more

  • Just Didn't Work Right  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Boyne on Aug 13, 2012
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    JUST DIDN'T WORK RIGHT My parents bought my 16 year old daughter her first car, a 1970 VW Beetle. While it was cute and a collector car, it wouldn’t run right. Even though it had been a gift from her grandparents, it cost as much in repairs as a new car would have cost in payments. While it had ...read more

  • The Gift Of A Child,” By Mary Ann ...

    Contributed by Danny Janes on Dec 18, 2012
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    “The Gift of a Child,” by Mary Ann Matthews. “Christmas comes at different times for me every year. I never know precisely when it will arrive or what will produce its spirit, but I can always be sure that it will happen. Last year Christmas happened while I was visiting my parents. The day was ...read more

  • Dugger's

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 24, 2014
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    We see something similar when an only child has a new baby brother or sister in the house. Not getting attention sothey cause trouble. Parents try to reassure the child that they love him because the child thinks that the parents will love her less because of the new baby. Think about the ...read more

  • Marriage

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Feb 29, 2016
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    A story from Warsaw, Ohio, is catching some attention today (August 13, 2014). It seems the dancers at Foxhole nightclub decided to picket a church that had been hassling them for years. Apparently the members and pastor of New Beginnings Ministries felt called by God to try to rid their community ...read more

  • Who Needs Twitter!

    Contributed by Dr. Fred W. Penney on Aug 20, 2019
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    We all want our lives to matter, and we believe they only matter if they are noticed by someone. I wonder if this desire for a witness isn't what fuels a lot of blogs, Facebook, and especially Twitter. We want someone, anyone, to take notice … to care about us … to watch us and by their ...read more

  • Mimic The Owner

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jul 5, 2023
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    I read of a wealthy woman that owned a very rare and expensive MACAW. It was so beautiful. It was so smart it could talk unbelievable. Over a period of time the MACAW developed an extremely irritating and terrible hacking cough. The lady called the local vet and they discussed the problem and ...read more

  • Never Give Up

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 4, 2023
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    CONCLUSION: There was an old frog that gathered the little tadpoles around him to teach them a lesson about endurance and persistence. He told of the farmer and his wife that had milked all the cows and set the milk cans out by the road. He told how the frogs loved to jump up and sit on top of the ...read more

  • Spirit Of Gradualism

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Oct 10, 2025
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    I lived in Lee County, Virginia and we would travel 68 from our house through Cumberland Gap, Tennessee to Middlesboro, Ky. We traveled through the national park. Linda and I would see a ground hog. The ground hog would stand on his hind legs to watch the traffic go by. We developed a love watching ...read more