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"One of the supreme tests of life is, "How did we use our privileges?" Oscar Wilde has a terrible kind of parable like this. Jesus was walking through the streets of a city. In an open courtyard. He saw a young man feasting gluttonously and growing drunk with wine. "Young man." said Jesus. "why do
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Contributed by Tim Bond on Apr 30, 2003
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One of my favorite stories is about Chippie the parakeet. Chippie was a happy little bird, content every day to sit on his perch, swinging and singing to his little heart’s content. One day Chippie’s owner took the initiative to clean out his cage. She took off the attachment from the end of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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Tony Campolo tells a story about being in a church in Oregon where he was asked to pray for a man who had cancer. Campolo prayed boldly for the man’s healing.
That next week he got a telephone call from the man’s wife. She said, "You prayed for my husband. He had cancer." Campolo thought when he
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Chippee the Parakeet
One of my favorite stories is about Chippie the parakeet. Chippie was a happy little bird, content every day to sit on his perch, swinging and singing to his little heart’s content.
One day Chippie’s owner took the initiative to clean out his cage. She took off the
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 28, 2001
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Albert Schweitzer said: "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Divorced life is not being there when your little girl
is crying from a bad dream and wants her daddy but
you’re not there because that night was not your
parenting night. (And you won’t even know she had a
bad dream because no one will tell you.)
Divorced life is not having any idea what your
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2002
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Creation teaches that life can pass through different forms and that life may even come out of death.
-The caterpillar lives the first part of its life crawling on the ground.
-After fulfilling its course, the caterpillar curls up and seemingly dies. Then out of that body a beautiful butterfly
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Life comes in three volumes, volume #1) YESTERDAY, #2) TODAY, #3) TOMORROW. Yesterday is gone, but it pays to visit on Memory Lane. Tomorrow is a good place to dream,
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Apr 15, 2002
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Value of Life A store owner was tacking a sign above his door that read ’Puppies for Sale.’ These signs had a weird way of attracting children. And sure enough, a little boy appeared at the sign. "How much are you gonna sell those puppies for?" he asked. The store owner replied" Anywhere from
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Nothing in life creates more deep seated anxieties than the false assumption that life should be
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Dana Chau on Mar 18, 2002
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Someone has said, "Living life is building a bridge into eternity." The world’s religions require mankind to build his own bridge with his own resources. Christianity, on the other hand, provides the bridge. Not only that, the Builder of
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 14, 2002
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Annie Dillard, in her book The Writing Life, tells of an experiment that was done with butterflies. The experiment involved placing a male butterfly with a female butterfly of his own species. Then they placed a painted cardboard butterfly alongside them. The cardboard butterfly was bigger than
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Methodist
Contributed by Steve Malone on Jul 24, 2002
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NOW – in life do overs are not the norm… In our Hang Time journal on April 3rd – we read a chapter from max Lucado’s book – “No Wonder They Call Him Savior.”
“Not many second chances exist in the world today.. Just ask the kid who didn’t make the little league team or the fellow who got the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 19, 2002
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For most of his life, Hudson Taylor was haunted and depressed both by his desire to see the Chinese saved and his fear of responsibility. In many instances, he trusted God for what at the time were remarkable requests: In 1881, he asked for another 70 missionaries within three years, and he got 76.
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Contributed by Sol Madlambayan on Nov 30, 2002
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While the National Right to Life study says, “In the U.S, over 32 million unborn babies have been killed in the twenty-one years since abortion was
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Methodist
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Definition of Joy: “A delight in life that runs deeper than pain or pleasure… it is not limited by nor tied solely to external circumstances. Joy is a gift from God, and like all of his other inner gifts it can be experienced even in the midst of
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Baptist