Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 2, 2002
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Leaders Learn from Their Mistakes
In his book Managing People is Like Herding Cats, leadership guru Warren Bennis observes that "Almost invariably, great leaders have had a significant setback, crisis or failure in their lives. Many of the leaders I studied faced adversity early in their lives.
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Contributed by Brian Matherlee on May 21, 2006
k. John Kennedy, Jr. is an example of the difficulty encountered by pilots whose training is limited to VFR. “In July of 1999, Kennedy’s Piper Saratoga was on approach to Martha’s Vineyard when it made a series of turns and then fell from the sky at 9:41 p.m., killing Kennedy, his wife, Carolyn
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Ian Johnson on Sep 1, 2006
When we release a sound of praise, the Earth must respond. There is a tangible change in the Atmosphere! The God of creation extracts a response from his creation!
Joshua Mills tells the story of a drought breaking in Chennai India as a result of Praise to the living God! To release a response
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Pentecostal
He’s a baseball legend. Cal Ripken played all twenty-one years of his Major League career with hometown Baltimore Orioles. He holds several defensive records and he is only one of seven players who got 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. But as sportswriters reflected on his career as he retired at
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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I WISH I COULD BE LIKE THAT
It was the Christmas season and Paul had received a special pre-Christmas gift from his brother. It was a beautiful brand new automobile.
On Christmas Eve, when Paul came out of his office, a street kid was walking around the shiny new car, admiring it. When Paul
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Nov 30, 2010
SEND US SOME ETERNITY
An English postal worker was in charge of letters inadequately addressed. One Christmas season he discovered a card from his own daughter to Santa. It said, "We're very sad at our house this year. My little brother went to heaven last week. You needn't leave me anything. But
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
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THE EFFICIENT USE OF PAIN
God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn’t come our way for no reason, and He seems especially efficient at using what we endure to mold our character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Apr 22, 2002
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Walter L. Bradley, PhD, states, "Each cell in the human body contains more information than in all 30 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It’s certainly reasonable to make the inference that [DNA] isn’t the random product of unguided nature, but it’s the unmistakable sign of an
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Contributed by C Jordan on Jul 20, 2007
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Charles Spurgeon, The Prince of Preachers, said: “It is the preacher’s principle business… to cry, “Behold the lamb of God.” For this reason was John (the Baptist) born and came into the world… his chief errand was to herald the Messiah, the Son of God. What we have said of
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Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 28, 2008
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Evangelism and Football
We are now in the midst of one the hottest seasons of the year. No, I'm not talking about the weather and its accompanying temperatures. After all we have just finished having summer this past week and autumn is upon us. And also some trees up on the mountains in Grant and
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Contributed by James Botts on Aug 29, 2002
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AN OLD SIN, A NEW WORD
Have you noticed that people are more and more angry then ever before? Consider the following…
One anger management firm stated that “one out of every five Americans has an anger management problem.”
According to FBI statistics, there were 23,305 homicides in 1994 and the
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 28, 2003
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Bill Chadwick tells the story about the lost of his teenage son in a car accident:
My most incredible rage was for the people who made the idiotic comments like...."God wanted him more", or "it’s not for us to know", or "everything happens for a reason", or "it was God’s will". People told me I
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