Contributed by Don Hawks on Aug 10, 2008
There’s a story about a man, a writer, who used to go to the beach to do his writing. He had the habit of walking along the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore; as he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think
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Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 12, 2008
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Is God Waiting for You?
Koinonia is the Greek phrase which describes this spiritual intimacy that is born through having the true knowledge of who God is in a personal way.
I must confess, I am the one who made the choice not to experience Koinonia for all those years in my spiritual way with the
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A. Let me tell you about a whole town that epitomized this scripture
B.. Gander, Canada
1. population 9,600
2. smack dab in the middle of Newfoundland
3. Canada’s eastern most province along the Atlantic
4. it had a community center, an aviation museum, 4 city
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Contributed by Jeff Osborne on Oct 16, 2008
Man in the Iron Cage
In John Bunyan’s book The Pilgrim’s Progress, he tells us of a character, known only as a man in an Iron Cage. This man’s character comes from the verse in Lu 8:13 “They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 24, 2008
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LIGHTING CANDLES ON CHRISTMAS EVE
Every time on Christmas Eve that I light my candle, I catch myself staring into the flame – I can’t seem to help it. There, I hold one small ordinary candle with a small flickering light. In of itself, my little flame doesn’t cast much light, but I don’t know,
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 29, 2008
DISNEYLAND
When I was a college kid in the San Francisco Bay Area, I would drive down with my friends to Disneyland at least once a year. We would leave late Friday night and take turns driving and sleeping during the eight hour drive. We would arrive in town early, have breakfast at Denny's and
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For a project for World Religions class, I interviewed a Muslim named Karim. Karim moved to America a couple decades ago. He worked at a restaurant and fell in love with one of the waitresses there, Susie. The two of them decided to get married.
She took him home to meet her mother, a life-long
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 11, 2009
In verse 2, God does something about Moses’ problem. God gives him a sign. God asks Moses about the familiar symbol of his profession—the rod. A rod is not only used for protection and for sorting the sheep, but it is a symbol of authority. So God orders Moses to throw the symbol of his personal
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When my son was 5, he wanted to be a fireman. That Halloween, we all new what his costume choice would be. So we got him a bright yellow fireman costume and set out for trick-or-treat. As we went his insisted that we go to the local firehouse. I thought that was a fine idea. They would pass out
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Contributed by Ryan Peters on Mar 10, 2009
Psychology Today
The Dangers of Loneliness (Aug 2003)
Friendship is a lot like food. We need it to survive. What is more, we seem to have a basic drive for it. Psychologists find that human beings have fundamental need for inclusion in group life and for close relationships. We are truly social
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 16, 2007
Let me relate Pastor Knute Larson’s parable about life and mortality.
There was a man who jumped from the top of the Empire State Building. That’s 97 floors up. (Or down, which is the way he was looking.)
That reminds me of people who are always saying that Christians are funny and sin is
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Contributed by Rob Culler on May 1, 2007
In 1997, Reilly Rankin, was an all-American golfer as a freshman at the University of Georgia. In her sophomore year, she was set back by an appendectomy, hernia repair and treatment for endometriosis. Having recovered from these procedures, her and a group of friends ventured out onto Lake
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Assembly Of God
The apostles were a great example of the difficulties of loving one another, and Jesus knew it.
There’s a scene in the epic Franco Zefferelli movie, Jesus of Nazareth, in which Jesus arrives at the house of Matthew, the tax collector, for dinner as he told Matthew he would. Peter and the other
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Brandon A. Bradley told his story in Pray magazine last year: “I am a surgical assistant—the surgeon’s right-hand man. At one point in my career, I lost my passion. I wanted a job with spiritual significance, and I prayed for that. Imagine my shock when God led me to a position in plastic surgery.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A Luge Ride is Like Life
While we were away last weekend, we went on the luge at the top of the gondola ride in Queenstown. You go up on the gondola to the hill above Queenstown. The restaurant and café has a luge track running around it.
For those who have not seen it or been on one, the luge is a
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Contributed by Timothy Darling on Mar 19, 2009
I love the tragedy, King Lear. In what I think is Shakespeare’s greatest play, the king divides his kingdom in thirds and decides to give the daughter that loves him most the best portion. When he makes his purpose known, the older two begin flattering him shamelessly. His oldest says,
Sir, I
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FINANCIAL WOW MIRACLE
Lake City Church - Madison -- God does a financial wow miracle.
They were four days away from having to make their quarterly payment of $140,000 for their mortgage.
Pastor John Ruck meets with all the finance wizards - bankers, Cpa's, business men. They asked him "How are you
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