Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 15, 2007
We’ve extended our definition of need to include saving for retirement, buying things we don’t need so that we don’t
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Lutheran
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 10, 2007
Eugene Peterson said, “When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn’t go off and leave us—he
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Church Of God
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 10, 2011
ROOTS AND FRUITS
How many of you have been to a funeral? As you approach the casket you'll see numerous floral arrangements, and these floral displays use two different kinds of flowers.
First there are the bouquets of cut flowers, and there are planters. There's generally more bouquets than
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Christian/Church Of Christ
COULD YOU IMAGINE? TUNA AND CRACKERS EVERY DAY?
A. There was a hard working young man. He was very poor.
He worked long and hard and saved his money.
He met a beautiful young woman and fell in love.
He later asked for her hand in marriage, and a few years later after saving and
working all the
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Assembly Of God
John Hull in his book "Pivotal Prayer" shares a story about a man who brought revival to a sinking ship:
A widowed Scottish minister named John Harper and his six-year-old daughter were on board the Titanic the tragic night it sank. When the ship began to sink, Harper, traveling second class,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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There is an epitaph on a tombstone that reads: “What I SPENT, I LOST. What I SAVED, I LEFT. What I GAVE, I HAVE.” As we INVEST in the Kingdom
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Contributed by Doug Lyon on Sep 11, 2004
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There was a man who was born on August 19, 1843 near Clinton, Michigan. When he was 17 years old he moved to his sister’s home in Tennessee where he enlisted in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He got out of the army a year later in 1862 and he went to St. Louis to study law. On
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Independent/Bible
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Philip Yancey shared this in Rumours of Another World, pp.154-55:
Living in Colorado, I climb mountains. Colorado has 54 mountains rising above 14,000 ft and every summer I climb some of them. On a summer weekend in the mountains, I see casual hikers who have no idea what they are doing. In
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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Caterpillar Ugly, Butterfly Beautiful
It is a well-known fact that a caterpillar changes into a butterfly. The butterfly can truthfully say as he looks at the caterpillar, "Such was I, but now I am changed."
Every Christian has once been a sinner, living for self and the momentary pleasures
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