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  • Poem By Will Carleton  PRO

    Contributed by Eric Ledermann on Jul 23, 2002
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    Poem by Will Carleton “Boys flying kites haul in their white-winged birds; You can’t do that way when you’re flying words: ‘Careful with fire,’ is good advice we know, ‘Careful with words,’ is ten times doubly so. Thoughts expressed ...read more

  • Enjoyable Giving

    Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Sep 8, 2009
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    ENJOYABLE GIVING A panhandler asked a woman for money, and she dug in her purse and handed him a dollar bill. As she did, she admonished him, "I’ll give you a dollar—-not because you deserve it, but because it pleases me." "Thank you, ma’am," he ...read more

  • According To Wikipedia,

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 20, 2009
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    According to Wikipedia, "The persecution of Christians is the religious persecution that Christians have endured as a consequence of professing their faith, both historically and in the current era. In the two thousand years of the Christian faith, about 70 million believers, of whom 45.5 million ...read more

  • Michael Jordan The Leader For Basketball Is A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeremey Brown on Nov 28, 2001
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    Michael Jordan the leader for basketball is a good ball player because of how he plays. “I’ve never been a vocal leader. I lead with my play. My play does all my talking. I go out every night and play like I’m playing the last game.” Jordan Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in basketball ...read more

  • Nothing We Have Is Attributable To Our Own ...  PRO

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Aug 31, 2003
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    "Nothing we have is attributable to our own strengths and talents. People think so. It’s an attitude that was expressed very effectively by James Stewart’s character in the movie, “Shenandoah”. He was the patriarch of a large Southern family, running a very successful plantation when the Civil ...read more

  • Here Are Some Rules To Live By - Marcus ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Here are some RULES TO LIVE BY - Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman philosopher, identified the following traits of a successful person: Consciousness of an honest purpose in life. A just estimate of himself and everyone else. Frequent self-examinations. Steady obedience to what he knows to be right. ...read more

  • He's A Baseball Legend. Cal Ripken Played All ...

    Contributed by Frederick Baker Ii on Jan 14, 2008
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    He’s a baseball legend. Cal Ripken played all twenty-one years of his Major League career with hometown Baltimore Orioles. He holds several defensive records and he is only one of seven players who got 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. But as sportswriters reflected on his career as he retired at ...read more

  • Wise Men Came From Afar

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 5, 2010
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    WISE MEN CAME FROM AFAR Most people know that Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, but they really do not understand as much as we think they do. In a small Southern town there was a "Nativity Scene" that showed great skill and talent had gone into creating it. One small feature ...read more

  • Dedication Is Costly

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Jan 4, 2012
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    DEDICATION IS COSTLY Bertoldo de Giovanni is a name even the most enthusiastic lover of art is unlikely to recognize. He was the pupil of Donatello, the greatest sculptor of his time, and he was the teacher of Michelangelo, the greatest sculptor of all time. Michelangelo was only 14 years old when ...read more

  • 2 Corinthians 7:1,

    Contributed by Tim Adams on Dec 1, 2009
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    2 Corinthians 7:1,“Let us cleanse ourselves” - that means we would do a good job if we were just as fond of straightening our own selves out as we are to find the faults of others. It is God’s Holy Spirit that will do the work but we must enter in to an active cooperation with God on this matter. ...read more

  • A Man Is Driving With His Wife At His Side And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Eric Snyder on Oct 22, 2001
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    A man is driving with his wife at his side and his mother-in-law in the back seat. The women just won’t leave him alone. His mother-in-law says, "You’re driving too fast!" His wife says, "Stay more to the left." After ten mixed orders, ...read more

  • The Lord Of Hosts (The God Of The Armies)

    Contributed by Michael West on Oct 2, 2008
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    The Lord of Hosts (the God of the Armies) Approximately thirty different occasions the Lord unites His eternal nature to the human need of His servant. However, there is one name that stands apart from these and occurs around 290 times in the Bible. That's almost ten times the sum of all the ...read more

  • Professor And Speaker Tony Campolo Writes These ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2004
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    Professor and speaker Tony Campolo writes these challenging words: In December of 1987, I had the wonderful opportunity of speaking at the great Urbana missionary conference sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. In the course of my address to the more than eighteen thousand collegians ...read more

  • Behind Every Big Dream  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 2, 2004
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    BEHIND EVERY BIG DREAM Charles Swindoll shares this story in an issue of Leadership magazine: “On May 24, 1965, a thirteen-and-a half-foot boat quietly slipped out of the marina at Falmouth, Massachusetts for Falmouth, England. It would be the smallest craft ever to make the voyage. Its name? ...read more

  • One Nation Under God Also Has Her Foundation ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Jul 8, 2006
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    One Nation Under God also has her foundation under-girded in Prayer. 1Timothy 2:1-2 says, “I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone -- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and ...read more

  • Many Of You Here This Morning Know The Story Of ...

    Contributed by Joe La Rue on Apr 1, 2008
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    Many of you here this morning know the story of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the American forces in the Philippines when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941 and launched their assault on the Philippine Islands later that day. When all hope of saving the Philippines was ...read more

  • World Vs. U.s. ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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    WORLD VS. U.S. POVERTY A few centuries ago, four-fifths of the French spent 90 percent of their income for food. With only what you and I consider a marginal tip to a waitress, they had to provide for all of their other needs. Europe had been in that condition for thousands of years. Until recent ...read more

  • Rejoicing In Pain  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
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    REJOICING IN PAIN Richard Stearns, the president of World Vision, visited a church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, nearly a year after the devastating earthquake. The church's building consisted of a tent made from white tarps and duct tape, pitched in the midst of a sprawling camp for thousands of ...read more

  • The Story Is Told Of An English Teacher Who Told ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 27, 2010
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    The story is told of an English teacher who told her class to write a composition on, “What I would do if I had a million dollars.” After the students had been working on the assignment for about thirty minutes, one young man approached the teacher’s desk and very quietly said, “A ...read more

  • As Christians, We Need To Have The Right ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    As Christians, we need to have the right perspective. Wrong perspectives can often make us choose a course of action that is not in our best interest. In the 1940’s, a woman by the name of Ruth Gruber was working with the Department of the Interior, helping to promote the Alaskan territory to ...read more