Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
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GIVING QUESTIONS
What is harder for people to give these days: time, money, or possessions? Why?
What is the biggest internal barrier for people investing what they have already have for God?
What is the biggest external barrier for people investing what they have already have
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Church Of God
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Dennis Prager, author of the shrewd and perceptive "Happiness is a Serious Problem."
He states: "There is a 'secret to happiness, and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but
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Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 18, 2002
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Quote. (John Maxwell)
Do It Anyway!
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. – Love them anyway!
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. – Do good anyway!
If you are successful you will win false friends and true enemies. – Succeed anyway!
The good you do
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Mennonite
Contributed by Angel Caballero on Jun 17, 2009
The phrase "hardness of heart" is used not only for God’s people’s enemies, like Pharaoh in Egypt, but also for God’s people, Israel.
In the New Testament it describes
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 28, 2010
I am convinced that as much as we have a corporate responsibility to this commission, it was given to people first, not an organization. Jesus didn't command a church with this commission, he commanded a people – his people. Every person who say they follow Jesus has the unique, individual,
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Marriage is an empty box. There is nothing in it.Marriage was never intended to do anything for anybody. People are expected to do something for marriage.Love, romance, consideration, generosity arent in
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jul 2, 2002
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ILL. James Byrnes, who was secretary of state under FDR, said that the difference between successful people & average people can be summed up in three words. Here are the three words, "and then some." He said, "Average people do what is expected. Successful people do what is expected, & then
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Contributed by Greg Buchner on Sep 26, 2004
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Chuck Colson is quoted saying, “Without ultimate justice, people’s sense of moral obligation dissolves; social bonds are broken. People who have no fear of God soon have no
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Methodist
Contributed by Jeffrey Rowe on Dec 29, 2012
Death steals from us in this life by suddenly separating us from the people and things we’ve come to care about. It robs us.
A little while back, our church office building was broken into by thieves who took some of our equipment. Personally I’ve had my car broken into a couple of times. I’m
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Holiness
Contributed by Michael Gibney on Aug 7, 2002
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GIVE ME LIBERTY
March 23, 1775. A man with his eternal perspective addressed the House of representatives and said,
“ No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on May 9, 2025
[101]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GOD OF SMALL THINGS
Some people like to think big. There is this fallacy that big is better, especially in the American culture. God does not work with big. He uses availability, particularly in His children.
I once preached on this topic showing that God uses
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NO TITLES AND NO DEEDS?
There was a terrible earthquake in California many years ago. Thousands of homes were destroyed and the state was in chaos.
Many people were claiming the homes they lived in as their own.
The courthouse and all the titles and deeds were destroyed completely.
The gas lines
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Oct 11, 2002
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PERSPECTIVE: Adapted. The author is Linda Senese
On Monday there were people fighting against praying in schools.
On Tuesday you would have been hard pressed to find a school where someone was not praying.
On Monday there were people were trying to separate each other by race, sex, color and
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Chuck Colson is quoted saying in regard to justice, “Without ultimate justice, people’s sense of moral obligation dissolves; social bonds are broken. People who have no fear of God soon
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
GODLY VISION
The capacity to create a compelling picture of the desired; state of affairs that inspires people to respond; that which is desirable, which could be, should be; that which is attainable. A godly vision is right for the times, right for the church, and right for the people. A godly
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Contributed by Fred Sigle on Feb 13, 2007
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A PREACHER told about his nine-year-old daughter who one day JUMPED off the SCHOOL BUS as it stopped in front of her house and SLAMMED her way through the front door. She MARCHED up the stairs into her ROOM and again SLAMMED the DOOR. All the time she was muttering under her breath:
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Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 10, 2018
In their book Dangerous Intersections, Jay Dennis and Jim Henry write about a church in Phoenix that randomly chose 160 people from the phone book. Half of those names they had people in the church pray for daily; the other 80 names were just laid aside. At the end of 90 days of praying, the
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 17, 2000
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Author and pastor Leith Anderson writes: Several years ago I was visiting Manila and was taken, of all places, to the Manila garbage dump and saw something beyond belief. Tens of thousands of people make their homes on that dump site. They’ve constructed shacks out of the things other people have
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