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  • Fathering Is Hard Work: According To The 6/10/03 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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    Fathering Is Hard Work: According to the 6/10/03 issue of Family Circle magazine in its national poll of fathers finds: · 94% feel building a family is the hardest and most important thing a man can do. · 71% say fatherhood is more demanding than they expected, while 88% say fatherhood is more ...read more

  • A Science Professor At Westmont College Wrote A ...

    Contributed by Austin Mansfield on Apr 1, 2007
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    A science professor at Westmont College wrote a book explaining how only one person could possibly have fulfilled the prophecies. He worked with 600 students to calculate the mathematical probability of just eight of the Old Testament prophecies being fulfilled in any one person up to the present ...read more

  • Today We Are All Rushing About Working For That ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Today we are all rushing about working for that next pay raise. But what is that pay raise really going to profit us? We often can’t see the big picture for striving for something greater. Maybe we should have the attitude of this father. The young man was feeling very proud of himself. As a ...read more

  • Cliff Barrows' Honeymoon ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2010
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    Cliff Barrows’ Honeymoon Service Dr. James Dobson wrote a book entitled When God Doesn’t Make Sense, and in his book he shared an illustration that is very applicable to the point being drawn from this particular verse. Take a moment and reflect upon the following story: In 1945, a young ...read more

  • Are You Doing What You Are Called To Do?  PRO

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 19, 2011
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    ARE YOU DOING WHAT YOU ARE CALLED TO DO? Last week was a very interesting week. About a year ago, when our finances started to dwindle, I sent my resume out to an Executive Search Group (Headhunter). Now that’s a unique name! Last week, I got a call that there was a possibility of an awesome ...read more

  • We Need Models

    Contributed by Greg Nance on Dec 15, 2011
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    WE NEED MODELS Peter tells us not only that Jesus Christ is the model but what are the tools and pieces to put together so that this model is complete and working for God's glory and our security in our lives. I remember getting a model car for a birthday present when I was about 12. It was a ...read more

  • Know The True From The False

    Contributed by Mark Stepherson on Feb 23, 2012
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    KNOW THE TRUE FROM THE FALSE I have heard and read several variations of this story. Some relate it to training bank tellers, some to treasury agents, and some to FBI agents. I don’t know which, if any, is true. The story makes a good point even if none of the stories are true. It is important ...read more

  • The Unending Wish

    Contributed by Tim White on Mar 5, 2012
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    THE UNENDING WISH When I was a boy, my dad asked me if I could have one wish be granted, what would it be? We played that game as a family, and every time my brother or one of my sisters thought of a better wish than I thought about, I would change my wish. Then my dad unplugged all the fun by ...read more

  • Pastor Charles Stanley—who Is An Author And Bible ...  PRO

    Contributed by Doug Lyon on Feb 14, 2007
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    Pastor Charles Stanley—who is an author and Bible teacher—tells this story from his seminary days. He writes: “One of my most memorable seminary professors had a practical way of illustrating the concept of grace for his students. At the end of his evangelism course he would hand out the exam ...read more

  • There Are Churches That Have Parking Problems And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bill Johnson on May 13, 2004
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    There are churches that have parking problems and others that don’t. Some churches have kids running around making a lot of noise, and some churches tend to be very quiet. Some churches usually have more expenses than money, and then there are other’s who don’t need to spend much money because not ...read more

  • Bernard Of Clairvaux Speaks Of A "Perfume ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Nov 7, 2005
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    Bernard of Clairvaux speaks of a “perfume compound of the remembered benefits of God.” Such a fragrance is easily obtained by spending a season in praise for the things God has already done. Not just by saying thank you, but by expressing a life of gratitude. Every born-again Christian should be ...read more

  • A Dad Wanted To Show His Son How Much He Loved ...

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Sep 22, 2006
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    A dad wanted to show his son how much he loved him, so he bought him a brand new Cadillac Escalade. The new SUV was fully loaded with chromed aluminum wheels, leather interior, three DVD players, a touch-screen CD player, a state-of-the-art navigation system, and a sunroof. The dad spared no ...read more

  • Marjorie Thompson Makes An Interesting Point When ...

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
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    Marjorie Thompson makes an interesting point when she says, ‘As people become hungrier for spiritual nurture, they often become more dissatisfied with their own tradition of corporate worship. Part of the problem is that average person in the pew has little say over how worship is planned, much ...read more

  • Love As Evangelism

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
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    Love as Evangelism When Henry Stanley went out in 1871 and found Dr. Livingstone, (remember: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?") he spent some months in his company, but Livingstone never spoke to Stanley about spiritual things. Throughout those months Stanley just watched the old man. Livingstone’s ...read more

  • Joseph Stowell Spouted Off To His Teacher At ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Joseph Stowell spouted off to his teacher at school and told her to shut up and then he stood up and walked out of the class room. As he walked down the block to his house he noticed that his mother was working in the yard. He stopped dead in his tracks. He thought “What am I going to tell her?” He ...read more

  • Do You Trust God?

    Contributed by Bret Toman on Jun 8, 2009
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    DO YOU TRUST GOD? There was a Seinfeld episode where Kramer scoots into Jerry’s apartment where Jerry and George are talking, and he says "Do you guys want to have some fun!" George and Jerry say "Sure." And then Kramer says "Do you really want to have some fun? Or are you just saying you want to ...read more

  • Carrying Guilt

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 26, 2009
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    CARRYING GUILT When I was a summer chaplain, I visited a person in the ICU hooked up to the machines and such, and suddenly I was overwhelmed with grief that I also had a strong panic attack. Although the patient looked nothing like my grandfather, I was just suddenly stuck with the picture of him ...read more

  • War Horse: Perseverence

    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Apr 8, 2012
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    WAR HORSE: PERSEVERENCE Last week, I watched "War Horse." It's a Steven Spielberg film about a young English boy and his horse. The family is about to lose their farm because dad bought a horse for his son. The father bears a war injury and cannot tend the farm. He spends his last money ...read more

  • Billy Graham On Hell

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 19, 2022
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    BILLY GRAHAM ON HELL: "It isn’t fashionable today to talk about Hell—but the Bible is clear: God created us with a soul that will live forever and when we die, we will continue to exist—either in the place the Bible calls Heaven or in the place it calls Hell. Hell, the Bible says, is ...read more

  • Cut To Fit!  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Aug 25, 2005
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    Cut To Fit! (08.29.05--Sickness!--Hebrews 12:6) Arthritis is a real drag. As active as you would like to be this day or any, if you are weighted down with joints that are sometimes swollen and often stiff, the day always seems sometime a bit longer, somehow harder to bear. I’ve been an arthritis ...read more