Contributed by Hugh Laing on Feb 17, 2010
In the world today...we are trying to marry Christianity to all the wrong things...we are trying to marry it to prosperity...popularity...personalities...politics...and beloved...it ain't working 'cause it's broken!
And yet many ministers preach a PROSPERITY DOCTRINE today because it feeds our
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I purchased this doll a few years back when I visited in Russia. It’s called a Matryoshka doll (Russian Nesting doll). (taking dolls apart) If you’re familiar with these dolls, you know that you open up one and there’s another inside … and so on and so on.
This continues until you get to the
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Contributed by Brad Henry on Aug 26, 2011
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NO SHORTCUTS
Now that the New Year is right around the corner there are those infomercials that tout great fitness. It seems that each year the machines get weirder. Hang upside down, spin 360 degrees then throw up. That loses about 5 lbs. Then there are those that bend you like a pretzel while
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Contributed by Hal Seed on Nov 9, 2012
THE BIBLE CAN MAKE YOU BETTER
Two hundred years ago, Norway was one of the poorest countries in Europe. She was ruled by her Danish neighbors and most people were poor fishermen or subsistence farmers. Every time there was a famine, people starved to death. Today it is one of the wealthiest. It
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Bill Hybel’s in His book “Making Life Work” states this about this kind of mindset – he words it this way:
1. “Some way, some day my life will improve. Some way, someday I’ll drift into more satisfying circumstances. Some way, some day what I want will come to be. Built on the fantasy that rewards
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 4, 2013
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HOW NOT TO BUILD
I grew up around construction and building material people. My family, for several generations, was in lumber and building materials.
In 1998 we opened a new hardware store in Lake Mary. I ran it from the time it opened, until I went to seminary. Part of my responsibility was to
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I'VE FALLEN, AND NO ONE WILL HELP ME OUT!
I was watching The West Wing one day and heard this story from Leo McGarrey, the Chief of Staff. I have adapted it for use in a sermon with The Good Samaritan.
A man is walking down the street one day when he falls into a hole. He cries out for help
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jul 2, 2011
ARE YOU GOING DEAF?
Fed up with people telling him he was going deaf, a man went to get his hearing tested. After examining the man, the audiologist place a clock on a desk and asked the man if he could hear it ticking. The man replied; "Yes I can."
The audiologist then placed the clock at the
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Brethren
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 3, 2001
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Richard Halverson, the chaplain of the U. S. Senate, pointed out something that bothers a lot of people and excites a few. He said,
“Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man’s real nature, money is of first importance. Money is an exact
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Whatever injury wicked men-in-power inflict upon good men is to be regarded … as a test for the good man’s virtues. Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For, a wicked man serves not just one master, but, what’s worse, as many masters as he has
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