Contributed by Hugh Laing on Feb 17, 2010
In the world today...we are trying to marry Christianity to all the wrong things...we are trying to marry it to prosperity...popularity...personalities...politics...and beloved...it ain't working 'cause it's broken!
And yet many ministers preach a PROSPERITY DOCTRINE today because it feeds our
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Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jul 12, 2010
Robert A. Fryling, in his article titled, A Renewed Mind: The Practice of Humble Thought, said, “A blessed person is one who is delighted and immersed in the teachings of the Lord. Such a person is consciously choosing to have a right relationship with God and consequently exhibits a life of
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 9, 2011
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GOODBYE, MOTHER!
A young man was walking through a supermarket to pick up a few things when he noticed a little old lady following him around. Thinking nothing of it, he ignored her and continued on. Finally he went to the checkout line, but she got in front of him.
"Pardon me, sonny" she said,
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The rise, fall and posthumous rise of Jim Thorpe
Jim Thorpe! Does it ring a bell? Well arguably he was the greatest athlete of 20th century. Blessed with abundant natural talent in those days of amateurism, Thorpe virtually “torpedoed” the competition into submission by winning the gold medals in
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Jul 2, 2012
FEAR OF THE RESURRECTION
In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, is a grave on which were placed huge slabs of granite and marble cemented together and fastened with heavy steel clasps. It belongs to a woman who did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. Yet strangely, she directed in her will
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Aug 2, 2023
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In 1520, one person stepped off a Spanish ship in Mexico and caused the deaths of thousands of people. The man was a soldier under the leadership of Pánfilo de Narváez, and he had smallpox. The soldier didn't know it, but wherever he went he exposed the citizens to a new disease. As a
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 31, 2022
As a lawyer, as a congressman, as Governor of Ohio, and as President of the United States, William McKinley had a close relationship with his mother. He either visited her or sent a message to her every day. When she became seriously ill, he arranged to have a special train standing by, ready to
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 6, 2000
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In 1973, four hostages were taken in a botched bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. At the end of their captivity, six days later, they actively resisted rescue. They refused to testify against their captors, raised money for their legal defense, and one of the female hostages later became engaged
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Contributed by Tony Miano on Jan 20, 2001
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“In January, 1995, according to an article written by Gary Thomas, J. Robert Ashcroft had fewer than forty-eight hours to live, but he was holding on to life, hoping to see his son, John Ashcroft, sworn into the U.S. Senate the following day. [John Ashcroft, as we all know by now, is in the
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The scene is a four engine jet liner. The pilot’s voice comes on the intercom: "Those of you on the left side of the plane have probably noticed that one of our engines has failed. Please do not be alarmed. We can still fly on three engines, but we will probably arrive about 15 minutes late." A few
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 19, 2001
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Do you remember the four-minute mile? They’d been trying to do it since the days of the ancient Greeks. Someone found the old records of how the Greeks tried to accomplish this. They had wild animals chase the runners, hoping that would make them run faster. They tried tiger’s milk: not the stuff
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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HOOKING UP, HANGING OUT
Scholars from the Institute for American Values conducted a
survey, "Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Looking for Mr. Right,"
that asked 1,000 college women about courtship in the new
millennium. The survey found that courtship—dating a male with
the hopes of
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