Contributed by Clint Meade on Jun 3, 2007
Some of the world’s greatest and most useful people have suffered a physical handicap. Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf, but at nineteen months of age she came down with an illness that caused it.
She went on to accomplish much in life that blessed those around her.
On September 14, 1964,
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Sep 22, 2006
Many years ago a senior executive […] cost the company more than $2 million. John D. Rockefeller was then running the firm. Edward T. Bedford, a partner in the company […] was scheduled to see Rockefeller that day and […] when he entered the office [Rockefeller] was bent over his desk busily
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 19, 2002
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A USA Today poll found that only 56% of American teach honesty to their children. And a Louis Harris poll turned up the distressing fact that 65% of high school students would cheat on an important exam. Recently a noted physician appeared on a network news-and-talk show and proclaimed, "Lying is
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Contributed by Todd Stiles on Dec 13, 2006
Many of you don’t know this, but when we started FFC, it was our goal to blitz the city – to visit every home in Ankeny. Now remember, there were only about 60 of us at that point, so this was one daunting task. Yet, did you know that right about 80% of our town was visited personally
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Baptist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 28, 2008
Charles Francis Adams, the nineteenth century political figure and diplomat, kept a diary. One day he entered: "Went fishing with my son today—a day wasted."
His son, Brook Adams, also kept a diary, which is still in existence. On that same day Brook Adams made this entry: "Went fishing with
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Sep 25, 2008
“He’s our miracle. He’s my hero. He’s my son, but he’s also my miracle.” Dustin Carter’s mother. Dustin, is an 18-year old High School wrestler who had both arms and legs amputated at the age of five. He made to the quarterfinals of the coveted State Tournament
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Mark Hensley on Jan 26, 2001
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In November I975, 75 convicts started digging a secret tunnel designed to bring them up at the other side of the wall of Saltillo Prison in northern Mexico. On April 18, 1976, guided by pure genius, they tunneled up into the nearby courtroom in which many of them had been sentenced. The surprised
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Baptist
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Honey Bees
Bees can show you something about teamwork. On a warm day about half the bees in a hive stay inside beating their wings while the other half go out to gather pollen and nectar. Because of the beating wings, the temperature inside the hive is about 10 degrees cooler than outside. The
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Charismatic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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A little boy asked his mother where he came from, and also where she had come from as a baby. His mother gave him a tall tale about a beautiful white-feathered bird. The boy asked his grandmother the same question and received a variation on the bird story. Outside to his playmate he said, "You
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Martin Luther understood this when he wrote, "The maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as the monk who prays -- not because she may sing a Christian hymn as she sweeps but because God loves clean floors.
“The Christian shoemaker does his Christian duty --- not by
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Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Mar 18, 2002
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CAN YOU EXPLAIN JESUS
G. Campbell Morgan summed up the diety of Christ when he said, “He was the God-man. Not God indwelling a man. Of such there have been many. Not a man deified. Of such there have been none save in the myths of pagan systems of thought; but God and man, combining in one
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 14, 2002
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SUBTLETY OF PRIDE
Paul W. Powell once observed: “Pride is so subtle that if we aren’t careful we’ll be proud of our humility. When this happens our goodness becomes badness. Our virtues become vices. We can easily become like the Sunday School teacher who, having told the story of the Pharisee and
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Contributed by Mark Haines on Mar 21, 2011
"When we sin, we are judged because in that moment of choosing sin we are actually electing the absence of God in our lives at that point. You see, [sin and salvation are] always relational. Sin separates us from God--that’s the point--sin is our embrace of the absence of God in our
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 9, 2001
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Abert Einstein attended a dinner party. His young, college student neighbor was seated beside him. The neighbor didn’t know who Einstein was. In the course of their conversation Albert Einstein’s young neighbor asked the white-haired scientist, "What are you actually by profession?" "I devote
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