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  • Facing The Truth: Beverly Sills

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Apr 26, 2010
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    fACING THE TRUTH: BEVERLY SILLS Confession is admission of something; it is an act of disclosure. Here's a story in the Ladies’ Home Journal as once quoted in The Reader’s Digest: Being general director of the New York opera took a toll on Beverly Sills; she ballooned into obesity. "It made me ...read more

  • Burmese Parable About A Banyan Tree ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 28, 2010
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    Burmese Parable About a Banyan Tree Seed Don’t pitch your tents near sin or soon you will be living in it. I have heard stories of people who have been hooked by a variety of addictions. They almost always start by just an ‘innocent’ act that did not seem like much at the time. Gamblers who started ...read more

  • Emergency Locator On Raft Compared To Not Being ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2010
     | 1,793 views

    Emergency Locator on Raft Compared to Not Being Able to Hide Sin A big part of his prayer is confession. Nehemiah confessed his sin. He owned the problem. They were sins not simply of commission but of omission. Trying to hide our sins from God is impossible. He knows all about them. Numbers 32:23 ...read more

  • No Wonder The People Wept When They Heard The ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 11, 2010
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    No wonder the people wept when they heard the message! (The Hebrew word Bochim means “weepers.”) However, their sorrow was because of the consequences of their sins and not because the wickedness of their sins had convicted them. It was a shallow and temporary sorrow that never led them to true ...read more

  • Most Frequent Question Asked Of Ann Landers ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 29, 2010
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    Most Frequent Question Asked of Ann Landers Answered by Billy Graham When Ann Landers was alive she received 12 million letters a year. 12 million! She was asked what’s the most frequent question she is asked. She said, “What’s wrong with me?” It’s not uncommon to find Billy Graham’s article on the ...read more

  • When My Grandson Goes To The Bookshelf And ...

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 18, 2010
     | 1,173 views

    When my grandson goes to the bookshelf and touches the pile of DVD’s at my daughter’s house, he knows it is wrong. I can tell he knows by the defiant look on his face. He knows it is wrong because he has been told it is wrong. He has FULL REVELATION of this rule. If he had not been told it was ...read more

  • Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, By Robert ...

    Contributed by Sterling Franklin on Jun 22, 2010
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    Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson - Potion – transforms Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde, and another potion transforms him back - Two personalities in one body: a mild man who seeks to do right, and a crazy monster with no conscience against evil. - We are in a similar ...read more

  • In March 2009, A 62-Year Old Woman Was Charged ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jun 23, 2010
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    In March 2009, a 62-year old woman was charged with stealing more than $73,000 from her church in the state of Washington. When the detectives interrogated her, she told them: “Satan had a big part in the theft.” It sounds like she was saying that the devil made her do it. Satan may have played a ...read more

  • Not "If"

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 8, 2010
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    NOT "IF" Wiersbe tells of a counselor who was trying to help a man who had come forward during an evangelistic meeting. "I’m a Christian," the man said, "but there’s sin in my life, and I need help." The counselor showed him 1 John 1:9 and suggested that the man confess his sins to God. "O ...read more

  • Are You ...

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 30, 2010
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    Are you crazy? When viewed from an earthly perspective, the man seems crazy. If we were as close to God as Ezra, it would be seen that his world was crazy. Crazy to think that one could defy God’s laws and yet escape God’s judgment! Indeed, the one pulling his hair out was one of the few sane ...read more

  • Make It Right

    Contributed by David Moore on Aug 5, 2010
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    MAKE IT RIGHT The great evangelist D.L. Moody told a story of a lady in the north of England who said that every time she got down before God to pray, five bottles of wine came up before her mind. She had taken them wrongfully one time when she was a housekeeper, and had not been able to pray ...read more

  • A Few Need To ...

    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 7, 2010
     | 1,745 views

    A Few Need to Die Warren Wiersbe, Be Strong. (p. 30) It is unfortunate but true that sometimes the only way a ministry can move forward is by conducting a few funerals. A pastor friend of mine pleaded with his church board to build a new educational [building] to house an exploding Sunday ...read more

  • A Friend Of Mine Told Me A Story About Her ...

    Contributed by Scott Bradford on Aug 13, 2010
     | 2,348 views

    A friend of mine told me a story about her grandson. He was behind some kind of signboard on the playground doing something he wasn't suppossed to be doing. His teacher came and of course he was in trouble. In a discussion with his grandmother, of course he noted that "His teacher couldn't see what ...read more

  • In 2009 Picher Oklahoma Closed It’s ...

    Contributed by David Rumley on Aug 19, 2010
     | 2,149 views

    In 2009 Picher Oklahoma closed it’s doors… the entire city closed, evacuated, and shut down. Once it was a town of 20,000 people… in the first quarter of 1900’s it was a boomtown and had abundant lead and zinc. The Picher area became the most productive lead-zinc mining field in the Tri-State ...read more

  • 70 Die And 200 Are Feared Dead As 2 Boats Capsize ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Sep 17, 2010
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    70 Die and 200 Are Feared Dead as 2 Boats Capsize on Congo Rivers. Congo river boats are often overloaded. When the fire started and people began jumping overboard, nearby fishermen ignored pleas for help. “Fishermen attacked the boat and started beating passengers with paddles” as they tried to ...read more

  • Defensive Striving

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Oct 27, 2010
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    DEFENSIVE STRIVING There's a term in driver's education - Defensive Driving. Driving to save lives, time, and money, in spite of the conditions around you and the actions of others. Its aim is to reduce the risk of driving by anticipating dangerous situations, despite adverse conditions or the ...read more

  • John Stott On Temptation

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Oct 30, 2010
     | 3,967 views

    JOHN STOTT ON TEMPTATION "The command to get rid of troublesome eyes, hands and feet is an example of our Lord’s use of dramatic figures of speech. What he was advocating was not a literal physical self-maiming, but a ruthless moral self-denial...to reject sinful practices so resolutely that we ...read more

  • The Lecherous Heart

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 4, 2011
     | 1,874 views

    THE LECHEROUS HEART Malcolm Muggeridge, the famous British philosopher and journalist who converted to Christianity late in life, once told the story of when he was working in India as a young man. One evening, he went down to the river for a swim. As he entered the water, he saw across the ...read more

  • Don't Hurt Yourself

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 4, 2011
     | 3,288 views

    James McDonald has a couple of sayings I like: "Choose to sin, choose to suffer." "When God says ...read more

  • Frederick And The Confession

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Jan 18, 2011
     | 3,303 views

    FREDERICK AND THE CONFESSION Truth is we can't please God, that is, not on our terms. Nor does it do any good to try and hide our sin. Like Isaiah, we can only be used by God when we're willing to admit, "I am a person of unclean lips." It reminds me of the story of KING FREDERICK II, an ...read more

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