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1. C. Leslie Charles says that the American Psyche is headed for a pressure cooker explosion because she sees a society that is getting angrier and angrier and more self-centered every day. She says many have bought into the belief of the “The Cranky Code” of conduct:
a. I am entitled to what I
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 28, 2006
ILL. The late Erma Bombeck in her book, "If Life is a bowl of Cherries, Why Am I Always in the Pits?", recalled the legend of a church where the chimes rang miraculously whenever someone gave a generous gift.
But the chimes hadn’t rung for a long time, even though kings & potentates had come
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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Why is it important that we let God be first in out life? Because we may touch others when God is leading. Miss Thompson taught Teddy Stallard in the fourth grade. He was a slow, unkempt student, a loner shunned by his classmates. The previous year his mother died, and what little motivation for
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Two books about the life of John Lennon, one of the Beatles, have come out. One by Robert Rosen is titled Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon, and another is Lennon in America by Geoffrey Giuliano. Both talk about the famous singer’s conversion to Christ on Palm Sunday. He began watching
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Methodist
Contributed by Todd Leupold on Aug 4, 2008
GOD’S GARDEN
Things that compete with peace are like the weeds competing with your flowers to dominate the space, nutrients, sunlight, water and character of your garden or lawn.
Weeds so easily spread, multiply and thrive because they are at their best when they are most shallow. You see, most
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Hiehle on Sep 24, 2008
On Monday, September 15, 2008, a very interesting panel of men was assembled and interviewed as a PBS special. The program aired on Friday night, September 19th. The gathering was of past and current White House Chief of Staff. One of the questions that was posed to the men was, “In your
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Nazarene
Contributed by Mark Hiehle on Sep 25, 2008
On Monday, September 15, 2008, a very interesting panel of men was assembled and interviewed as a PBS special. The program aired on Friday night, September 19th. The gathering was of past and current White House Chief of Staff. One of the questions that was posed to the men was, “In your
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Nazarene
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 12, 2009
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LOVING HOLLAND
I love what Emily Kingsley says about disappointment and handling disappointment. She’s talking about the disappointment when your kids don’t turn out the way you thought they ought to turn out -- particularly a handicapped child. She says, "I’m often asked to describe the
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Contributed by James Jack on Apr 10, 2009
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CHRISTMAS IN THE GREAT WAR
A famous incident from WWI illustrates the nature of the Christmas season very well. It was December 1914, the first Christmas of the war. Already the stalemate along the western front in France had begun to set in. British, French and German troops faced each other in
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Anglican
Dear Dad,
Heroes are men who first of all are heroes for God and then heroes to their families. To be a hero for God, you need to yield your life 100% to Him.
What's in this name "hero"? Josh McDowell shares,
"A few years ago, a radio jockey polled almost two hundred teenagers in a shopping
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Imagine with me for a moment, if you had a beautiful picture in your home that was worth over a hundred thousand dollars because of the artist who had painted it. It was a one of a kind masterpiece. The artist had put excellence into every stroke of his work The colors were awesome. The depth
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Presbyterian/Reformed
ONE DAY I WILL BE HEALED
A few weeks ago, I saw a special on TV about faith healers. In that show, Lisa Ling went to the meeting of a renowned faith healer where she interviewed a man named Steve. When he was 18, Steve was in a car crash that left him with brain injury and a speech impediment.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
WE CRAVE THE LIGHT
A few years ago I was sitting in the doctor's office and picked up the Oct. 2001 edition of the National Geographic. It had an amazing article on the "Power of Light". The articles introduction caught my attention:
"Light reveals the world to us. Body and soul crave it. Light
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