Contributed by Michael Stover on Mar 14, 2001
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William Barclay writes:
It’s possible to be a follower of Jesus without being a disciple; to be a camp-follower without being a soldier of the king; to be a hanger-on in some great work without pulling one’s weight. Once someone was talking to a great scholar about a younger man. He said, "So
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Contributed by Edwin Amundson on Jul 30, 2002
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How do I know we need women? According to the United Nation's statistics: "Women constitute over 50 percent of the world's population. But women do three-fourths of the world's work, receive one-tenth of the world's salaries, and own one one-hundredth of the world's land."
Women are major
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Contributed by Joel Vicente on Aug 17, 2002
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THOUGH TIME MAY BE TOUGH
AND THE ROAD REAL ROUGH
JUST BELIEVE
THOUGH YOU’VE CRIED MANY TEARS
AND WAITED MANY YEARS
JUST BELIEVE
IF GOD SAID HE WILL
THEN JUST BE STILL
AND BELIEVE
FOR GOD WILL TRULY DO
WHAT HE PROMISED YOU
IF YOU JUST BELIEVE
JUST BELIEVE IN HIS WORD
TRUST IN WHAT YOU’VE
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
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CHRISTMAS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
To avoid offending anybody, the school dropped religion altogether and started singing about the weather. At my son’s school, they now hold the winter program in February and sing increasingly non-memorable songs such as "Winter Wonderland," "Frosty the Snowman"
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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The Cocooning Lifestyle Peaked in ‘98 when the typical household spent $1,601 on home furnishings and it’s been falling since. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the American household spent only $1,497 on home furnishings in ‘03. Consumers are downscaling, downsizing and eliminating clutter.
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 22, 2006
A woman was one day walking along a riverbank with her little boy. Suddenly, the child slipped into the river. The mother screamed in terror. She couldn’t swim, and was in the late stages of another pregnancy. Somebody finally heard her screaming and rushed down and into the river. The rescue
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Contributed by Dean Courtier on Oct 10, 2009
FAITH AND HUMAN KNOWLEDGE
Billy Graham said, "Millions of people today are searching for a reliable voice of authority. The Word of God is the only real authority we have. His Word sheds light on human nature, world problems and human suffering. But beyond that, it clearly reveals the way to God.
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Contributed by David Moore on Feb 18, 2010
DON'T FORGET ABOUT GROWING
In N. Ireland, during the troubles there, some of those caught up in paramilitary violence would be converted, and no sooner were they saved than they were paraded from church to church sharing their testimony as an ex-paramilitary. Such events often drew large crowds,
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Contributed by Bruce Ball on Apr 25, 2011
BACK WHERE WE STARTED
I have a photograph, taken of my father’s father around 1910, when he was about 28. I put that photograph next to a photo of me that was taken when I was 30. The poses were just about the same. And surprisingly, the only real different between the two photos is that he was
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DYING IN THE OCEAN OF GRACE
Dr. Gerstner, "Christ has done everything necessary for his [sinners] salvation. Nothing now stands between the sinner and God but the sinner's good works. Nothing can keep him from Christ but his delusion that he has good works of his own that can satisfy God. If men
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Contributed by Matthew Oliver on Oct 20, 2012
Christian man Carl Behr of Baldwin, Pennsylvania received a notice on Monday ordering him to remove the 24-foot high illuminated cross he has installed in his front yard and kept lit day and night. But Behr plans to fight the order at a municipal meeting. “It’s all about my faith, and some people
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Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Oct 26, 2007
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A young customs official noticed a woman crossing the border every day on a motorcycle with a wooden box strapped on the back of the motorcycle. The guard knew she was trying to smuggle something into the country so he stopped her and searched the box. There was nothing in the box except sand, so
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Contributed by Don Crowson on Feb 1, 2008
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Some years after Corrie Ten Boom had be freed from a Nazi Concentration Camp, she was scheduled to speak at a church. As she sat on the platform and looked out at the congregation, she saw the prison guard who had been so cruel to her sister just prior to her death.
She struggled and wrestled
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Contributed by Glenn Durham on Mar 10, 2008
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I have a John Deere riding lawnmower which I really like and am proud of. With the mower came an instruction book, the truth which sets the mower free to do that for which it was created. Now suppose that I want to give my mower a special treat, since I am proud of it and want it to really cut well
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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