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  • Our Submission To Christ Is Imperfect And ...

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 16, 2009
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    Our submission to Christ is imperfect and progressive, John Piper writes: “From the time of our first saving acceptance of Christ, He is our King and Lord and Savior and Priest and Prophet and Counselor. All that He is, He is for those who are His. And then begins a life of faltering and growing ...read more

  • * In The Lower Part Of South Carolina Is A ...

    Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 9, 2009
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    *** In the lower part of South Carolina is a very poisonous snake called the coral snake. It’s venom is very potent and very deadly. However, those people who live in that area rarely die from the bite because they know a secret.... "shake it off’. You see, while the venom is very deadly, the coral ...read more

  • When Robinson Crusoe Was On A Deserted Island ...

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Dec 15, 2009
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    When Robinson Crusoe was on a deserted island after his ship had wrecked, he found a bible among the chests he had salvaged. His heart was changed upon reading it and he uttered these words. “I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider ...read more

  • In December 1903, After Many Attempts, The Wright ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 21, 2009
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    In December 1903, after many attempts, the Wright brothers were successful in getting their "flying machine" off the ground. Thrilled, they telegraphed this message to their sister Katherine: "We have actually flown 120 feet. Will be home for Christmas." • Katherine hurried to the editor of the ...read more

  • My Older Sister Sue Is Panicked By Mice. She ...

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 26, 2009
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    My older sister Sue is panicked by mice. She lives in an old farm house, next door to the house we grew up in. One night she went into her kitchen and saw a mouse scury underneath the pantry door. Wanted it eradicated, she called Dad who went over the house to take care of the problem. He was ...read more

  • Strauss On The Death Of Jesus

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Feb 19, 2010
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    STRAUSS ON THE DEATH OF JESUS The German skeptic David Friedrich Strauss, who spent most of his life arguing against the fundamental truths of Christianity, famously discounted this theory in his book, The Life of Jesus for the People. He wrote: "To conceive of a man hanging on a Roman cross in a ...read more

  • C. S. Lewis Made These Insightful ...

    Contributed by Hugh Laing on Mar 1, 2010
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    C. S. Lewis made these insightful observations about temptation: “No man knows how bad he is until he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. That is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it ...read more

  • The Sabbath Serves Us

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jul 27, 2010
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    THE SABBATH SERVES US A story is told of a wagon train of Christians traveling from St. Louis to Oregon. They observed the Sabbath day by stopping to rest and not traveling. But as winter approached some in the group began to panic that they would not reach Oregon before the snow fell. So they ...read more

  • The Ship

    Contributed by Fr Mund Cargill Thompson on Oct 21, 2010
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    Anybody like doing pub quizes? Well here’s a piece of pub trivia for you. The posh name for bit of the church you are sitting in is “the nave” - and that means the “ship”. Why on earth does anybody call the bit of the church you are sitting in “the ship”? It doesn’t look like a ship does it? ...read more

  • Believing The Ancient Record

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    BELIEVING THE ANCIENT RECORD On January 6, 1822, Heinrich Schliemann was born. He would one day achieve world renown and great wealth. When Heinrich Schliemann was seven years old, a picture of ancient Troy in flames captured his imagination. Contrary to what many people believed, Heinrich argued ...read more

  • Starbucks Society

    Contributed by Erik Stadler on Jan 12, 2011
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    STARBUCKS SOCIETY Sometimes people describe today as the culture of "Starbucks" or the "iPod" society? We have been taught to look at ourselves as individuals, and the preferences of the individual are more important than the group. At Starbucks you can stand behind somebody and they can rattle I ...read more

  • Tancho And The Bell

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 21, 2011
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    TANCHO AND THE BELL The Emperor Charlemagne wanted to have a magnificent bell cast for the church he had built. An artist named Tancho was employed by the church to make it. He was furnished, at his own request, with a great quantity of copper, and a hundred pounds of silver for the purpose. He ...read more

  • Shout Of Triumph

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2011
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    SHOUT OF TRIUMPH "'It is finished.' This shout of triumph rings with all the freshness and force of when He spoke it. The satisfaction He rendered to the justice of God was finished. But next, the Savior meant that the satisfaction which He rendered to the justice of God was finished. The debt was ...read more

  • Consequences For Karla Faye Tucker

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2011
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    CONSEQUENCES FOR KARLA FAYE TUCKER Karla Faye Tucker was convicted in 1983 for the murders of two people. While on death row in 1985, she picked up a Bible from the prison ministry program and prayed to receive Christ after reading it. On June 22, 1992, Tucker requested that her life be spared on ...read more

  • Point Of View Is Everything

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 5, 2011
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    POINT OF VIEW IS EVERYTHING ABC's "The View" - the winner of the 2003 Daytime Emmy® Award for "Outstanding Talk Show" as quoted by its own website! ABC News correspondent Barbara Walters, the renowned Whoopi Goldberg, comedian Joy Behar, actress/comedian Sherri Shepherd, and The Australian Outback ...read more

  • The Curious Just Shows Up To Church But Doesnt ...

    Contributed by Kelly Benton on Mar 15, 2012
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    The Curious just shows up to church but doesnt try to get involved in the church. They show up physically but are absent spiritually. These types of people are much like the employee that comes to work to only punch the time card but are totally non-dedicated to the job. They expect to recieve ...read more

  • Are You Tied To This World?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 1, 2012
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    ARE YOU TIED TO THIS WORLD? Moody said that some people are trying to live by faith as though they are paddling hard in a row boat, while all along their tie-down is still fastened securely to the dock. He declared, "They are tied to this world. Cut the cord! Set yourself free from the clogging ...read more

  • Heaven And The Post Office

    Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 5, 2012
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    HEAVEN AND THE POST OFFICE When I was a teenager, we went to a meeting with Billy Graham in a high school football stadium. There were probably 20,000 people sitting in the bleachers in the cold of the morning to hear Billy Graham. And he related a story about how he arrived in a small village ...read more

  • Y2k

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Aug 27, 2012
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    13 years ago, there were people running all over the place, buying up food and bottled water and gas and everything else they could think of, just in case something happened with all of that Y2K stuff. They did all of that just in case they were without power, or open food stores for a few days. ...read more

  • Napoleon - P82 Boasted He Could Remember The ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Dec 6, 2007
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    Napoleon - p82 boasted he could remember the names of every person he ever met. His technique was simple. If he didn’t hear the name clearly, he said, “So sorry I didn’t get the name clearly,” If it was an unusual name he would ask how is it spelled? During the conversation, he took the trouble ...read more