Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 27, 2009
I sat in a courtroom as a witness for the motel I was working for, and, we were waiting on our case to come up, and one of the cases that was presented, was a man who stole food from a grocery store, and the reason he gave was that he and his family were hungry. Now, it is a terrible thing that we
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Contributed by Kevin Short on Oct 13, 2009
Ted Williams, who died in 2002 was arguably the best hitter baseball has ever known. He was the last baseball player to hit better than .400 in a season. Upon his death George Will said in his column "There is no joy in Red Sox nation, a.k.a. New England, or in any heart where baseball matters."
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 26, 2009
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CARRYING GUILT
When I was a summer chaplain, I visited a person in the ICU hooked up to the machines and such, and suddenly I was overwhelmed with grief that I also had a strong panic attack. Although the patient looked nothing like my grandfather, I was just suddenly stuck with the picture of him
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Contributed by Hugh Laing on Feb 15, 2010
When we walk into God's House to worship we should leave ALL else behind.
We should be here to commune with God only and if we are here for any other reason we should not be here.
And I must say this also...we should have prepared to be here. How? On our knees praying for guidance.
Why do I say
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Contributed by Allan Kircher on Feb 11, 2011
ONLY COPY THE ORIGINAL
By studying the book of Acts we'll give ourselves a biblical STANDARD to follow.
This is important because the sad truth is many churches don't pattern themselves after God's original design. Instead they organize themselves and operate according to the latest trend. They
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Contributed by Ken Henson on Oct 15, 2012
If we want to come to Jesus there will be opposition.
John Stott was the pastor of All Saints Church in London. I had a chance to meet John Stott while I was in London. He died last year. He is really credited with starting the evangelical movement in England. Before that movement was started,
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 3, 2022
1. We make small decisions all the time, and they can affect the direction of our lives. Take this true story: “When I was a kid, my mom, my cousin, my sister, and I were all about to go to my great grandma's house from my grandma's house. It was not a far drive so my mom allowed my sister
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Burnout is a serious problem among pastors around the world. Some statistics include:
On average, seminary trained pastors last only five years in church ministry.
• 100% of 1,050 Reformed and Evangelical pastors had a colleague who had left the ministry because of burnout, church conflict, or
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 19, 2001
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Do you remember the four-minute mile? They’d been trying to do it since the days of the ancient Greeks. Someone found the old records of how the Greeks tried to accomplish this. They had wild animals chase the runners, hoping that would make them run faster. They tried tiger’s milk: not the stuff
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