Contributed by David Johnston on Sep 24, 2006
                
                
                
                    The Temperance Reformation
This story took place in the years when social drinking was a common thing even among many of the churches.  However, many men of God were beginning to speak out against drinking and taking a stand against it from their pulpits.
One Sunday, the pastor, who was a
                    
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                    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Apr 4, 2012
                
                
                
                    TEMPERED FOR CHRIST
A blacksmith, about 8 years after his conversion to Christ, was asked by an unbeliever, "Why is it you have so much trouble? I have been watching you since you trusted Christ as your Savior and began to 'walk square' and seem to love everybody, and you seem to have twice as
                    
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                    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on Apr 16, 2009
                
                
                
                    THE TEMPER OF ANDREW KEHOE
Andrew Kehoe was born in 1872. His mother died when he was young and his father remarried. It was reported that Kehoe did not get along very well with this stepmother. Kehoe lived on a farm just outside the village of Bath, Michigan. The community was known as the Bath
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 4, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illus.:  “Moody Loses His Temper”
One time D. L. Moody was lecturing and a theological student asked a question.  Moody snapped back at him.  At the end of his talk he paused and confessed, “Friends, I want to confess before you that I made a great mistake at the beginning of this meeting.  I
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 1, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Malcolm, a man with a terrible temper, was playing a round of golf with his pastor. After leaving three straight putts on the edge of the cup, Malcolm exploded. "I missed!" he screamed. "How could I miss?" With that he heaved his putter into a nearby lake, kicked a wheel on the golf cart and drove
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 4, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A Godly leader is not to be quick tempered or overbearing. Back in the days when I was a police officer I was an elder at our church. One Sunday I was asked if I would bring an offering meditation. At the last minute I discovered I would be working that day so our Pastor asked if I could get a 10
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 20, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Temperance means the abstinence from all that is evil, and the moderate
                    
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                    Contributed by Eric  Ferguson on Jun 10, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    NAILS IN THE FENCE
There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.
Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was
                    
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