Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 15, 2007
Dobson said (The Strong-Willed Child), “Whenever I’m tempted to become self-important and authoritative, I’m reminded of what the mother whale said to her baby: ‘When you get to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2002
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Celebrities tend to misbehave in tiresome and predictable ways--tantrums, affairs, addictions--and we tend to think they’re spoiled. But one psychiatrist, Cornell’s Robert B. Millman, says they’re not spoiled, they’re sick. The affliction is Acquired Situational Narcissism.
ASN develops when
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Illustration: Several years ago the Minnesota Crime Commission released a statement that backs up what the Bible teaches about our human nature. In its report it stated that “every baby starts life as a little savage. He is completely selfish, and self-centered. He wants what He wants when He
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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HYBELS: "TOTALLY DEVOTED" TO CHRIST
Bill Hybels, Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, was talking with one of his members about some of the "tough topics" he had taught on over the years—-hell, money, sex, relational confrontation, self-discipline. The man asked, "Of all the topics you’ve
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Leonard Ravenhill (From Revival Praying) -- Is it really a comfort to know that the recent converts will become just like us? What if they are as lazy and self-excusing in the matter of personal devotion to Jesus and active engagement in soul-winning as the rest
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Sep 29, 2005
In the hard school of life God’s answer to our problems don’t come in the form of neatly pre-packaged solutions, like strips of shrink-wrapped capsules labelled for each anxiety we have, carrying a certificate of immunity from the hazards of life.
If I may give a personal illustration of this.
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Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Nov 12, 2006
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Some years ago a Christian farmer was deeply concerned over an unsaved carpenter. The farmer sought to explain how that the finished work of Christ was sufficient for his soul to rest upon. But the carpenter persisted in the belief that he must do something himself. One day the farmer asked the
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Contributed by Merv Budd on May 2, 2011
WE NEED MORE WILBERFORCES
In the middle of the eighteenth century, Christians became increasingly concerned about the slave trade. They amassed information on the inhumane treatment of the slaves and believed that eventually they could generate sufficient public support to overcome the slave trade
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 28, 2006
The fiction character Sherlock Holmes stated: "My dear Watson, I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one’s
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Nov 11, 2006
Others
Lord, let me live from day to day
In such a self-forgetful way
That even when I kneel to pray,
My prayer shall be for others.
Others, Lord, yes, others;
Let this my
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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