Contributed by David Wilson on Sep 28, 2007
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The answer seems obvious you take the selfish test.
So here we go:
1. If the last time you said “I love you” and really meant it, you were looking in a mirror you might have a problem with self.
2. If your most memorable vacation only required one airline ticket you might have a problem with
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Christian Church
Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 10, 2007
Dr. Pierce Harris was the long time pastor of First United Methodist Church in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Harris spoke one day at the state penitentiary. He was introduced to the prisoners by one of the inmates. In his introduction, the inmate said, “I want to tell you a story about two boys.
• They
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 24, 2007
Remember to look at the possibilities in the area you see. (You see some things but don’t actually look at them.) We used the FedEx logo during our Gripped For Greatness campaign last year. We asked if you saw all you were looking at.
Between the last two letters of FedEx you can see an arrow
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 12, 2007
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Finding Peace Of Mind
Duke University did a study on “peace of mind.” Factors found to contribute greatly to emotional and mental stability are:
· The absence of suspicion and resentment. Nursing a grudge was a major factor in unhappiness.
· Not living in the past. An unwholesome preoccupation
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Baptist
Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
e. Elmer Towns tells about a member of a motorcycle gang who was converted to Jesus Christ dramatically and the first Sunday he did the only thing he knew he should do and so he went to church. Nobody in the church knew him and he walked down to the second aisle and sat in the seat. And the
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
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This week you may have seen the story of Maria Headley. Like many people, playwright Maria Headley had had her fill of terrible dates. Discouraged and looking for love, she decided the time had come for her to eliminate her own (clearly not adequately discriminating) taste from the equation.
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Other
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 13, 2007
There is a story of an 8 year old boy who was learning in school how plants grow, he was intrigued how a tiny seed can germinate in the ground and later burst through the ground, that week he attended a funeral where the pastor talked about the final resurrection of our bodies. Several days
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Baptist
Contributed by Brien Sims on Dec 13, 2007
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My family is different than many of yours. My parents hate my work and hate my relationship with Christ. As long as I never say anything, they will tolerate it but I can’t keep quiet about Christ. Since I became a Christian back around 2000, I have had to live with the fact that I was no longer
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Danielle Fineout grew up as the daughter of missionaries in Zaire. As a little girl, she went to a day-long rally celebrating the one-hundreth anniversary of Christian missionaries coming to that part of Zaile. After a full day of long speeches and music, an old man came before the crowd and
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Baptist
Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
A few weeks ago, I shared some questions that Gordon MacDonald believes are being asked by people at different stages of life. Now not only did those questions really interest me and cause me to think about the questions that I am asking at this point in my life, the story that MacDonald opened the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Richard Goble on Feb 17, 2008
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The Infallible Bible-Barometer
In September, 1938, a man who lived on Long Island was able one day to satisfy a lifelong ambition by purchasing for himself a very fine barometer. When the instrument arrived at his home, he was extremely disappointed to find that the indicating needle appeared to
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Baptist
Contributed by Ronnie Knight on Feb 23, 2008
By now everyone has heard of the death of actor Heath Ledger. Just a few days ago this up and coming young actor was found dead in his lower Manhattan apartment.
From the outside looking in it would seem that he had it made. He had truly found the American dream. He had fame and fortune. Yet,
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Baptist
Peter Johnson related this story in the April 14, 1988, issue of USA TODAY.
“Have you ever noticed that sometimes we get angry and remain bitter with people and actually forget why we’re so upset? Take, for example, the notorious Hatfield-McCoy feud.
“It hit newspaper front pages in the 1880’s,
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 31, 2008
There is a single page from the journal of John Wesley that reads:
Sunday a.m., May 5 - Preached in St. Ann’s; was asked not to come back any more.
Sunday p.m., May 5 - Preached at St. John’s; deacons said, "Get out and stay out."
Sunday a.m., May 12 - Preached at St. Jude’s; can’t go back there
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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A pastor had gathered a selected group of workers to train them to witness for Jesus. A young worker was complaining to a veteran caller about one of the people he had visited. "I’ tried to tell him about Jesus, I tried to tell him about the love Jesus had for Him. I tried to tell him that Jesus
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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CROWDED LONELINESS
At a recent small groups conference at Saddleback Church Randy Frazee spoke on the "call to community." He reported the average American family manages 35 separate relationships on a day-to-day basis--children, extended family, neighbors, government, school, friends, work,
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Contributed by Robert Mitchell on Apr 16, 2008
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A man once hired his new son-in-law to build him a house. The man told his son-in-law that the house was going to be a surprise for his wife for their 30th anniversary, and he did not want him to spare any expense in building it. The son-in-law was already a cheap man who made his living ripping
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Baptist
Questions about the mysteries of life and its origins have always fascinated thinking people. Where shall we go for answers?
Leave such inquiries to science, some would say. That is not the domain of faith and religious inquiry.
There was a most interesting article in March 1998 National
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
GOD GAVE ME THE LIGHT
I remember back when I graduated from college and was beginning to interview for ministry positions. I was being looked at by three churches, but I wanted God to be able to guide in where I would go, so I agreed to go to the first church that would give me the official call.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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