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TEN SIGNS OF A FRUSTRATED MOTHER
1. Your children know how to read HTML code but can’t operate a vacuum cleaner.
2. Your children tell you that you said "yes" and you don’t even remember the question.
3. You go to the grocery store and find yourself having a good time.
4. Your husband asks how
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
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A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE
America is a great place to live. Thousands of people reach its borders everyday hoping to live the American Dream.
The Chrisian Science Monitor recently reported a poll that asked the question "If it couldn’t be US, whose citizenship would you want?"
Americans,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 19, 2002
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Wayne was quite bright and very interested in theology and spiritual matters. But there was a vacuum in the “inner parts” of our relationship. When I’d bring up a problem in my life, or express sadness or fear, Wayne would simply go away.
It was a little eerie. I’d be sharing something very
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
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There is an appropriate historical example of this folly of ruling out something ahead of time because it does not fit with one’s view of the world. When explorers first came to Australia, they encountered an animal the defied all known laws of taxonomy. They discovered a semiaquatic, egg-laying
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We have a famous poem on our kitchen wall. Let me read it to you:
One night a man had a dream.
He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonged to him, and the other to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 4, 2005
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David Brewer, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, gave the court’s opinion in the 1892 case of Church of the Holy Trinity vs. United States: “Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 27, 2005
From the 9-20-05 Daily Bread
A few years ago, an unkempt, poorly adjusted youth named Tim… was converted to Christ in an evangelistic crusade. Several days later…he was sent to my home so that I could help him find a good church. And so it was that he began attending with me.
Though Tim needed
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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Mega Church Growth Slows: A new study by Scott Thumma, Hartford Seminary, indicates that after 20 years of rapid growth, churches of more than 2000 members, growth has markedly slowed. There are approximately 500 such mega churches in the U.S. and nearly all have a conservative theological
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Contributed by Lisa Delay on Sep 25, 2006
Gordon brightened as he figured out the dilemma and responded, “I answered who am I, but I should have said, ‘For a living I defend profitable corporations from schemers trying to get rich with frivolous lawsuits’.” Gordon chuckled and gave a big toothy grin to his classmates. “Go ahead, hate
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 23, 2006
It is like the parable I read recently by Paul Kooistra, where he said, “I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. ‘You don’t have to tell me,’ I said. ‘I’m off the team, aren’t I?’ ‘Well,’ said Coach, ‘you never were really ON the team. You made that
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2004
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Our congregation hosted a Red Cross blood drive on a recent Sunday morning that started before and continued during our various assemblies. I tried to give blood before the worship assembly. They rejected my offer! I had to answer a long series of questions about personal health, relationships,
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Contributed by Jeff Simms on Sep 27, 2004
In a sermon by Ken Hemphill, former President of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary he tells of a Sunday evening after church. He stopped by a pizza parlor on the way home from church. While waiting for the pizza, he went next store to a grocery store and there got a carton of milk.
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Baptist
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h. The day the church treasurer resigned the church asked the local grain elevator manager to take the position. He agreed under two conditions. That no treasurer’s report would be given for the first year. That no questions be asked about finances during that year. The people were surprised but
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Earl Palmer, in a fine little book entitled The Enormous Exception, tells the story of a pre-med student at the University of California, Berkeley "who became a Christian after a long journey through doubts and questions." When Palmer asked the young man why he had chosen Jesus Christ, he answered
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Contributed by Virgil Gibson on Oct 17, 2007
Several years ago my wife and I bought our 2 small grandsons new bicycles for their birthdays. We did not have a truck available at the time, so we bought the bikes unassembled.
My son and I realized that it would not be a big task to assemble the bikes. We began the process without reading the
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Apostolic
Contributed by Glenn Durham on Dec 21, 2007
The phone rings. It is Kremlin. Mr. Putin heard a sermon and invites me to bend his ear. A limousine arrives; attendants open doors, carry luggage, and ensure my every comfort. A police escort takes me to the airport where a private plane waits. When we land in Russia, a red carpet cushions my
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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Have you heard the saying “you are what you eat”? Well good thing that’s not true because I’d probably be an eggplant or something, but what is true is “you are what you think”. You are what you think, you are what you read, and you are who you hang out with. If you put garbage in, you’ll get
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