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  • They Are Who We Thought They Were

    Contributed by Timothy Dolan on Nov 10, 2009
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    THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE How many have heard the apparently new cliché: "They are who we thought they were"? "Normally quiet Arizona Cardinals coach Dennis Green first uttered this trademarked phrase during a swear-filled, post-game tirade in 2006. When he was asked what he thought of ...read more

  • A Spiritual Rhythm

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 16, 2009
     | 2,620 views

    A SPIRITUAL RHYTHM Developing a rhythm in your spiritual life means organizing your life around times of stopping to remember God. What is important is not the length of time but that you regularly stop to refocus on God. It could be five minutes or forty minutes. It could be your break time. ...read more

  • Being Thankful For Being Better Off Than Many ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 16, 2009
     | 4,953 views

    Being Thankful for Being Better Off Than Many People Around the World I have an email that was sent to me a while back. It says that "If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the six million who won’t make it through the week. If you have never ...read more

  • Prejudiced Toward Attractive People

    Contributed by Nathan Ingram on Nov 30, 2009
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    PREJUDICED TOWARD ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE In her book Better Than Ever, Dr. Joyce Brothers, popular psych, shows we are prejudiced toward attractive people. We consistently judge beautiful people to be more sensitive, kind, intelligent, interesting, sociable, and exciting than less attractive people." ...read more

  • We Can't Take Another's Medicine To Make Him Or ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2009
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    We can’t take another’s medicine to make him or her well A little girl, whom we will call Ellen, was some time ago helping to nurse a sick gentleman whom she loved very dearly. One day he said to her, “Ellen, it is time for me to take my medicine, I think. Will you pour it out for me? You must ...read more

  • I Once Took A Graduate Level Class On The ...

    Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Jan 10, 2010
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    I once took a graduate level class on the psychology of learning, and in that class we talked about the way people learn. And I remember one time we were talking about babies and how they perceive certain things. It was kind of amusing actually, but they did a study where they would sit a baby ...read more

  • While We Were In Jerusalem We Visited A Jewish ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
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    While we were in Jerusalem we visited a Jewish shop “Treasures of the Temple” which was a sort of museum. These Jews are currently recreating all the temple items in preparation of rebuilding the temple to worship in O.T. style. Photos 796-798 We stopped by the Western Wall and there were dozens ...read more

  • Fear Of Flying

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
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    FEAR OF FLYING Some people are sacred to death of flying. To think of getting on airplane and taking off at 150 MPH, climb to an altitude of 30,000 feet and go 400 or so MPH, is a bit much. Reminds me of the story told years ago about a flight of a four-engine jet plane. It was a lengthy flight ...read more

  • Love Me First, Then Witness To Me

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 28, 2010
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    LOVE ME FIRST, THEN WITNESS TO ME In our lesson we have seen that faith without works is useless. It cannot be demonstrated, it cannot change a person, it is not perfected, and it is dead! Our faith does not help us, or others, until it causes us to act. Once a chaplain walked up to a wounded ...read more

  • Bitterness Kills  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 28, 2010
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     | 4,780 views

    BITTERNESS KILLS Bitterness has been medically linked to glandular problems, high blood pressure, cardiac disorders, ulcers, and even insanity. One leading psychiatrist wrote, "90% of all people in insane asylums could be released immediately if they would learn how to forgive, or how to be ...read more

  • Inheritance

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Mar 9, 2010
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    INHERITANCE WHEN MY DAD DIED, I INHERITED A TAP COLLECTION! Brass taps! I’ve never heard of someone who collects taps. Every shape and variety of brass taps. They were too heavy to put them in my suitcase so I placed them in a carry-on-bag as I went to the airport. My bag was taken through the ...read more

  • Hannibal The Great Was A Carthaginian Military ...

    Contributed by Jeremy Lane on May 15, 2010
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    Hannibal the great was a Carthaginian military commander around the year 200 B.C. He is thought of as one of the great military leaders of all time, alongside Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and others. There is a story that says as a boy Hannibal begged his father to take him to a war overseas. ...read more

  • Someone Has Said That The Cross Has Become So ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on May 27, 2010
     | 1,891 views

    Someone has said that the cross has become so ordinary that we hardly see it anymore. Isn’t that a deeply sad statement? Can you imagine a time when you could hardly be moved by the death sentence being passed on someone very near to you? Yet church members can act as if they no longer see the ...read more

  • Parents Teach Their Children God's Word At A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2010
     | 4,096 views

    Parents Teach Their Children God’s Word at a Restaurant I once read an illustration of a family who took this seriously. One night at a pizza parlor, we decided to use the minutes waiting for our food as a teaching time. We passed out an index card and pencil to each child and had them write down a ...read more

  • 10146; A Contractor Who Worked For One Company ...

    Contributed by Kelly Fellows on Jun 9, 2010
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    ➢ A contractor who worked for one company for over 20 years – he built many many houses. ➢ He was looking forward to doing some traveling with his wife, etc. ➢ The owner of the company asked him to build one more house. ➢ The contractor reluctantly said yes (tho in his ...read more

  • Childlike Faith

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 20, 2010
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    CHILDLIKE FAITH Perhaps it is the reason that I embraced Christianity so easily was that the Christian faith doesn’t demand intelligence. I have an above average intelligence level. Well, actually, although it was above average according to the IQ test I completed at School, it was more tilted ...read more

  • A Young Boy Gets A Driving ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 6, 2010
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     | 2,594 views

    A Young Boy Gets A Driving Permit A young boy had just gotten his driving permit. He asked his father if they could discuss his use of the family car. His father took him into his study and said, “I’ll make a deal with you. You bring your grades up, study the Bible a little, get your hair cut, ...read more

  • Let The Master Play

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Aug 22, 2010
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    LET THE MASTER PLAY An organist was practicing one day in a great church in Europe. As he was playing, a man came up to the organ and asked if he could play. The organist looked at him and thought to himself. "I shouldn’t let this man play, just look at him, he is unshaven, his clothes are ...read more

  • You Know When You Are Growing Old When...

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
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    You know when you are growing old when... * Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work, * Your knees buckle and your belt won't. * Your back goes out more often than you do. * You know all the answers but no one asks the questions. * Your mind makes agreements your body can't keep. ...read more

  • The Durability Test

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Jan 8, 2011
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     | 5,834 views

    THE DURABILITY TEST Endurance is a quality that God expects us to manifest. If you go to an IKEA store, you will find somewhere in the chair department a glass box with what is called the durability test. They have a mechanism that simulates someone sitting on the chair, and they say the chair was ...read more

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