Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jul 11, 2003
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Parishioner to pastor: "All I’m trying to say is that certain people might think that 12:15 is a little late to be getting out of church, that a pastor doesn’t need three weeks of vacation, that your office is offensive, that a guy my age doesn’t need a guy your age telling me how to raise my kids,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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John Barrymore once played the role of a father who disapproved of the man his daughter planned to marry. In one scene, the daughter had to ask Barrymore what he thought of her fiancé, who had just exited. Barrymore was supposed to answer, “I think he’s a dirty dog.”
One night, when the
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 25, 2007
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Some of the saddest words in the New Testament are concerning the disciples at the Last Supper. Jesus had repeatedly told them of his betrayal and coming suffering and death. He announced that one of them was about to betray him, and the next verse says, “A dispute arose among them as to which
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 15, 2009
“A Lighthouse Lesson”
A friend told us that he was visiting a lighthouse lately, and he said to the keeper, “Are you not afraid to live here? It is a dreadful place to be in constantly.”
“No,” replied the man, “I am not afraid; we never think of ourselves here.”
“Never think of yourselves! How
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 1, 2006
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Godly sorrow results in a willingness to change. Worldly sorrow results in hanging on to the sin. Worldly sorrow sees the sin as precious, as something you know is wrong yet you find yourself desperately trying to figure out some fool proof way to keep it close to you.
Video Clip: Lord of the
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 27, 2026
[324]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - VANITAS VANITATUM – PART 2 of 3
PART 2 OF THE POEM IS HERE.
This is a long poem and after speaking about the man who could not find fulfillment, I then move to the body of the poem, which is based on the book of Ecclesiastes. We take up the message of the
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Dec 21, 2025
[241]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – SOME THOUGHTS FROM EPHESIANS 1
Ephesians is the most doctrinal book in the New Testament along with Romans. There is so much in Ephesians that it is a gold mine with more and more veins the further down you go. In this poem I took some of the marvellous teaching
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Contributed by Joseph Smith on Oct 24, 2000
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Ridgecrest is a large Baptist-run assembly ground, nestled in the mountains of western North Carolina. All summer long, every year, thousands of Christians come to Ridgecrest for training, inspiration, Bible study, and challenge.
A few years ago, during a conference, people began to notice a man
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Several years ago C.S. Lewis wrote a book entitled “The Screwtape Letters. Screwtape was a Master Demon who wrote a series of letters to his nephew Wormwood, who was a Demon in training.
I came something this week that someone who had obviously read Lewis’ book had written. It is another letter.
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Contributed by Amanda Wilson on Aug 26, 2007
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I was once talking to a man from South Africa whose father was a Baptist minster during the apartheid years. Their family lived in a mining town and the labourers at the mine were from 3 different African tribes, each with their own independent language. At one time there was a lot of unrest
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 27, 2008
BAG OF CANDY
A young boy was arrested and brought before the judge for taking a bag of candy from the shelf of a local store. The owner of the store pressed charges because he wanted the boy to learn a lesson.
After a lecture from the judge, the judge asked the young boy if he had anything to
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Contributed by Nathan Ingram on Nov 30, 2009
We’ve probably all heard the expression, “This is going to separate the men from the boys!” Those words are said when about something that involves danger and risk. Things that take courage and a willingness to sacrifice. Things that are grueling and gut-wrenching. Things that require maturity and
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Nov 13, 2008
Dr. Kenneth McFarland was the dean of American speakers. Here’s my favorite passage of all I have heard from him:
Folks sometimes ask me where I went to school. They think I will tell them about Stanford University or Columbia University. But I usually say, “I went to school to Miss Georgia Brown
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