Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 1, 2007
Have you experienced the people with a self righteous diet plan? In my experience it is usually, but not always, a self proclaimed vegetarian.
Years ago Katie and I had a little dinner get together at our house. We had some Christian friends over, and a friend brought a date with him, a woman we
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Harriet, the church gossip and self-appointed supervisor of the church’s morals, kept sticking her nose into other people’s business. Several were unappreciative of her activi-ties, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.
She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
France The number of self-declared Catholics in France has slipped from 80% in the early 90s and 67% in ‘00 to 51% in ‘06. The number of atheists
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
Of those, 19% self-identify as “active” Christians, 20% “professing”, 16% “liturgical”, 24% “private” and 21%
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Philip Keller in his book entitled “A Gardener Looks At The Fruit of the Spirit” says that self control in the biblical sense “means my ‘self’ my whole person, my whole being, body soul and spirit come under the control of Christ. It means that I am an individual governed by God. My entire life,
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Dean Morgan on Sep 10, 2004
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•In 1654, one vote gave Oliver Cromwell control of England;
•In 1649, one vote caused Charles I of England to be executed;
•In 1776, one vote gave America the English language instead of German;
•In 1839, one vote elected Marcus Morton governor of Massachusetts;
•In 1845, one vote brought Texas
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Alan Tison on Mar 20, 2007
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Children have a way of controlling our life do they not – I heard about a young boy who received a harmonica for Christmas from his uncle. After the first of the year he saw his uncle for the first time since receiving the harmonica. With a large smile he said, “Thanks for the harmonica you gave me
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"You have a rudder-like control on your life, and you get that control largely by the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 28, 2008
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TONY EVANS ON GETTING UN-STUCK
Tony Evans, a popular black preacher from down in Texas, spoke of being on an elevator in a high-rise building. He said he’d never been particularly comfortable on such elevators. There was something about riding up and down in a little box several hundred feet off
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
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The application of misplaced desires eventually becomes a cycle of addiction where stimulating encounters, relief, and the mad search for new experiences become ingrained in the recesses of the mind. The insatiable appetite to acquire, to own, to indulge, to take pleasure, to consume, is
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Contributed by Carl Kolb on Jan 5, 2008
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• Do you remember when Magic Johnson announced he had AIDS? He vowed to use that tragedy to promote AIDS awareness. While we might be able to commend him for using his illness for a creative, positive purpose, don’t you think it would have been better for him to stress to young people the real
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"It is not only the most difficult thing, to know oneself, but the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"It is always easier to confess the sins of others than to acknowledge our own faults, and to point out the delinquencies of others than to mend our own nets. Men, like water,
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