Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
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Helen Keller once said, “I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. It
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
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Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that if the constellations appeared only once in a thousand years, imagine what an exciting event that would be. But because
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
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In an article in this week’s issue of TIME magazine, Nancy Gibbs ponders the paradoxical nature of Thanksgiving. She says:
“It is an ordeal to travel and yet we do; family reunions can be wildly stressful and yet painful to miss…. This is the kind of holiday we need right now, an intrinsically
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A group of academics and historians has compiled this startling information: Since 3600 BC, the world has known only 292 years of peace! LESS THAN 1% (.08) OF THIS TIME WAS IN PEACE. During this period there have been 14,351 wars large and small, in which 3.64 billion people have been killed. The
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
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A few years ago, a Dutch professor took time to calculate the cost of an enemy soldier’s death at different times in history. He estimated that during the reign of Julius Caesar, it cost less than one dollar. It cost Napoleon, $2,000. At the end of the First World War, it cost $17,000. During the
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A couple of weeks ago, our small group got together for a movie night. We watched “Unbreakable,” the latest movie from the writer and director of “The Sixth Sense.” In this movie, Bruce Willis discovers that he has a special gift, but he doesn’t yet know how to use it. So his new friend, played by
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
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Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
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Your children must understand that when you speak for the first time, you have spoken for the last time.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
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WHOM DOES A MOTHER SERVE?
Mother...a quiet servant of necessity...doing the work no on would notice or thank her for--no one, that is, except Him to whom it could be offered as a daily sacrifice of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
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MARKING THE TIME
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.
Even when a new century begins it is only we
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