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  • Max Lucado, Preacher And Writer, Teaches That ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 14, 2008
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    Max Lucado, preacher and writer, teaches that ‘every day ...read more

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    Denomination: Salvation Army

  • Things ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 7, 2009
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    Things Neglected Once an ever waking thought Once an every day pursuit And then the day arrived Where it was passed by Maybe for just an instant But it’s worth diminished in that moment And in time it fell into the common ground Of those things neglected. One day the most valued thing of all In ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Things ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 7, 2009
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    Things Neglected Once an ever waking thought Once an every day pursuit And then the day arrived Where it was passed by Maybe for just an instant But it’s worth diminished in that moment And in time it fell into the common ground Of those things neglected. One day the most valued thing of all In ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Things ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 7, 2009
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    Things Neglected Once an ever waking thought Once an every day pursuit And then the day arrived Where it was passed by Maybe for just an instant But it’s worth diminished in that moment And in time it fell into the common ground Of those things neglected. One day the most valued thing of all In ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Things ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 7, 2009
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    Things Neglected Once an ever waking thought Once an every day pursuit And then the day arrived Where it was passed by Maybe for just an instant But it’s worth diminished in that moment And in time it fell into the common ground Of those things neglected. One day the most valued thing of all In ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • A ...

    Contributed by Stephen Funderburk on Jan 16, 2009
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    Absence A strange silence I have never heard As I walk a path alone, An unfamiliar moment When I realize you are gone. As I look around to notice That the roads have all been changed For there’s one that now is fading At a place I called your name. So I must go on without you With the memories ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • John Taylor Recently Invented A Clock Called The ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jan 19, 2009
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    John Taylor recently invented a clock called the Chronophage. Literally it means time eater. It was donated to Corpus Christi College at Cambridge. It combines the Greek word for time, chronos, and the word phageo meaning “to eat”. A monster-looking grasshopper with a mouthful of teeth devours ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Six-Word Memoirs  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jan 19, 2009
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    Six-Word Memoirs One of the surprising best-selling books of 2008 is "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure." Notice that the main title is only six words: "Not Quite What I Was Planning." People were asked to succinctly sum up their life in six ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Indian Proverbs States, "When You Were ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 28, 2010
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    Indian Proverbs states, “When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced, Live your life in such a way that when ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Time Has A Beginning, But God Operates ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 28, 2010
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    “Time has a beginning, but God operates outside of time. On the other hand, humans ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • What Happens Every 15 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    What Happens Every 15 Minutes Hands on Illustration: Set the timer for 15 minutes – I am setting this timer for 15 minutes and 15 minutes from now it will ring and at that point I will tell you how valuable 15 minutes are in this world. When the Timer goes off and rings this is what would have ...read more

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  • To Realize The Value Of One Year, Ask A Student ...

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Jul 26, 2010
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    To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade. To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby. To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the businessman whose flight was delayed an hour. To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask the man who had ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Tchaikovsky And Time Management

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2010
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    TCHAIKOVSKY AND TIME MANAGEMENT Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the great Russian composer, put a sign on his gate: "Visiting hours Monday and Tuesday between 3 and 5 p.m. Other times please do not ring." By posting that sign, Tchaikovsky was announcing to the world that he was a great composer, and as ...read more

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  • Time To A Pig

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 7, 2011
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    TIME TO A PIG Reminds me of a man who was walking past a farm, and noticed a farmer feeding pigs in a most extraordinary manner. The farmer would lift a pig up to a nearby apple tree, and the pig would eat the apples off the tree directly. The farmer would move the pig from one apple to another ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • The 2,000-Year-Old Seed

    Contributed by Roshelle Deas Roberson on Feb 6, 2012
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    THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD SEED This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex Chadwick. A tree grows in Kibbutz Ketura in the Israeli desert, and what a tree it is, a tiny sapling actually 2,000 years old, or the seed that it comes from is 2,000 years old, making it the oldest seed ever germinated. Botanists never gave ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Feeling God

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Mar 4, 2012
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    FEELING GOD When we try to measure time or weight or temperature or speed or any of a hundred other things, we normally rely on instrumentation. But we can try to tell the time by using our feelings, such as how hungry or tired we feel, and our senses, such as how light it seems, is crudely ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Don't Be Impatient

    Contributed by Tim White on Apr 15, 2013
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    DON'T BE IMPATIENT When I was a teen-ager, my mom finally gave in to my dad. After mom and dad bought our Christmas, dad talked mom into allowing us to open the gifts days, sometimes weeks early. He couldn’t wait until we opened our gifts. The problem is that it took a lot of the joy out of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • The Stewardship Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    THE STEWARDSHIP OF TIME John Taylor recently invented a clock called the chronophage. Literally it means "time eater." It was donated to Corpus Christi College at Cambridge. It combines the Greek word for time, "chronos," and the word "phageo," meaning "to eat". A monster-looking grasshopper with ...read more

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  • In 2006 A Study Was Done On The Lifespan Of ...

    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on May 11, 2009
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    In 2006 a study was done on the lifespan of people. It was determined that the average person would be alive for around 65 years. That is 3,380 weeks, or 23,725 days, or 569,400 hours, or 34,164,000 minutes, or 2,049,840,000 seconds that the average person is alive. Of course I just wasted like ...read more

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  • God's Calendar

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jun 22, 2009
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    GOD'S CALENDAR Here’s my calendar for July. (………) I mark up the days which have a special meaning for me or an event to watch out for. Last month I did have a calendar event – it was my birthday! That was a ‘red-letter day’, something which marks an important day. I won’t tell you how many years ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist