Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2003
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MEASURING GOODNESS
Goodness can only be measured by God. God is the standard of goodness. If we compare ourselves to others we’re using the wrong measurement. If we determine goodness by what other people call good, we’re using the wrong standard.
It’s like the little boy who came to his mother
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
On June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, a smoky bonfire on a raised platform was fed by wet straw and old wool rags. Tethered above, straining its lines, was a huge taffeta bag 33 feet in diameter. In the presence of “a respectable assembly and a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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Returning home one afternoon with my two daughters, Kimberley, age two, and Kristi, six months, I pulled into my driveway and stopped to check the mailbox. But when I returned to the car, I found Kimberley had pushed the locks down on both doors—and I had left the key in the ignition.
For an hour
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 17, 2006
Returning home one afternoon with my two daughters, Kimberley, age two, and Kristi, six months, a mother pulled into here driveway and stopped to check the mailbox. But when she returned to the car, she found Kimberley had pushed the locks down on both doors and the mother had left her keys in the
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Contributed by David Ward on Sep 25, 2006
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If Danny Simpson had known more about guns, he might not have needed to rob the bank. But in 1990, in Ottawa, Canada, this 24-year-old went to jail, and his gun went to a museum. He was arrested for robbing a bank of $6,000 and then sent to jail for six years. He had used a .45 caliber Colt
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Tim Richards on Oct 19, 2006
In case you haven’t heard it well known former football coach and present day broadcaster, John Madden, is being inducted in the Pro-Football Hall of Fame. I saw part of an interview with him this week. He talked about how as a coach he used to work 18 hour days and travel 6 months each year. Then
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
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Give the first and best. The goal is to be reached at any cost. On August 11, 1978, Double Eagle II, a large helium balloon, and her crew of three, eased into an almost windless sky above the potato fields of Maine. Their destination was Paris, France. The aerodynamics of ballooning are somewhat
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Pentecostal
Contributed by James Tilley on Dec 1, 2009
ELF
Story of a child who stows away. He is raised as an elf. They dress him like an elf and treat him like an elf. They teach him to make toys like an elf. As time passes it becomes clear that he is not an elf. One major clue is that he grows six feet tall. Anther is how slowly he makes toys.
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Baptist
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 15, 2010
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IT SHOWS YOU WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW
Robert Phillips (Biblical Preaching Journal/Winter 1994, wrote of his first college course in chemistry. His first exam came after one week. Of the twelve in the class 6 got "D's" and six failed. The professor told them, "I did not give you this test so that you
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 10, 2010
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A CHAMPION BLOOD DONOR
Joe Kerkofsky is America's blood-donor champion. The American Association of Blood Banks will honor the 62-year-old retired security guard at a special presentation in Chicago.
Mr. Kerkofsky lost an arm in an accident when he was six. He was thence rejected for military
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Sep 2, 2012
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THE HOLMES BROTHERS ON PRIDE
The brilliant physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and his brother John represent two radically different views on the subject of flattery.
Dr. Holmes loved to collect compliments, and when he was older he indulged his pastime by saying to someone who had
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Brethren
Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 22, 2007
A man who lost his job to downsizing was reflecting on his plight. His response wasn’t what I might do in that situation. He said, "I don’t feel too bad. I didn’t realize until I lost my job how I had lost track of my family, how little time I was spending with my wife and my children, and how I
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Methodist
Contributed by David Swanger on Jul 13, 2007
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. How important is character to me personally? – Soon after moving to Pulaski my
children, Josh and Britney were eight and six. We walked out of Bi-Lo one day
and when I put my quarter into a coke machine out came not one but two cokes.
I told Josh and Britney to go on to the car where their
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 17, 2008
A city dweller turned farmer went to the local feed store to get some answers: his best cow had stopped producing milk.
“Are you feeding her right?” asked the storeowner.
“Just what you sold me,” replied the rookie.
“Are you milking her every day?” the owner asked.
“Just about. Sometimes when I
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bill Butsko on May 9, 2008
“Her Day”
She cooked the breakfast first of all,
Washed the cups and plates,
Dressed the children and made sure
Stockings all were mates.
Combed their hair and made their beds,
Sent them out to play.
Gathered up their motley toys,
Put some books away.
Dusted chairs and mopped the stairs,
Ironed
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Christian Church
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