Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 2, 2002
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Illustration: The Trouble with Money
Guys, just remember, if you get lucky, if you make a lot of money, if you get out and buy a lot of stuff--it’s gonna break. You got your biggest,fanciest mansion in the world. It has air conditioning. It’s got a pool. Just think of all the pumps that are going
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Evangelical Free
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Anger is the spontaneous reaction we have when someone interferes with our will or messes up our plans. If you doubt that, see what emotion seizes you on the way home when someone cuts you off on Loop 410. (The other day, Susan and I were driving to church when a car wasn’t cooperating with my
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 27, 2002
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Mary Had The Little Lamb
Mary had the little Lamb, who lived before His birth;
Self-existent Son of God, from Heaven He came to Earth.
Mary had the little Lamb; see Him in yonder stall --
Virgin-born Son of God, to save man from the Fall.
Mary had the little Lamb, obedient Son of
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 2, 2002
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Leaders Learn from Their Mistakes
In his book Managing People is Like Herding Cats, leadership guru Warren Bennis observes that "Almost invariably, great leaders have had a significant setback, crisis or failure in their lives. Many of the leaders I studied faced adversity early in their lives.
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jan 6, 2004
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"A man in the hospital experienced this kind of love, a love he had not known before. This love made him think about his life made him seriously see what life was all about. One day he said to the chaplain, ’I am beginning to see what life is all about,. I saw it in the nurses who cared for me
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Lutheran
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 28, 2004
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Einstein gave grudging acceptance to "the necessity for a beginning" and eventually, to "the presence of a superior reasoning power," but never did he accept the doctrine of a personal God. Two specific obstacles blocked his way. According to his journal writings, Einstein wrestled with a deeply
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Contributed by Paul Humphrey on Feb 22, 2006
Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end;
Yet days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone,
And I never see my old friend’s face.
For life is a swift and terrible race.
He knows I like him just as well
As in the days when I rang his bell
And he
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United Methodist
A Bug's Life (Disney)
Overview -- Hopper explains to his gang that one ant may be harmless and unable to stop them, like throwing one seed at a gang member. Hundreds of ants joined together, though, could bury them as surely as hundreds of seeds do. This speech rallies his gang to crush the ants'
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 9, 2012
THE RING AND THE CARROT
"A Swedish woman who lost her wedding ring 16 years ago was flabbergasted when she found it again, around a carrot growing in her garden, media reported Saturday. Lena Paahlsson had taken off the white gold ring before a Christmas baking session with her daughters in 1995,
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Contributed by Steven Ferber on Apr 10, 2012
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THE EVIL IN OURSELVES
A few weeks ago Americans were stunned by the news that an American soldier in Afghanistan apparently killed 17 Afghan civilians. Friends and teachers of Robert Bales describe him as caring, gregarious and self-confident before he just "snapped." One childhood friend told the
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Lutheran
Contributed by Robert Hoos on Apr 21, 2007
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The Finality of Death
When I was just around the age of five or six years old I attended my first funeral. They have since become something that I am used to, but this first time was something that was very memorable for me.
I remember standing there, barely able to see into the coffin, and
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 24, 2008
The Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower were not the first to celebrate Thanksgiving in the New World. Several groups before them had done similar things.
But the Plymouth Rock Thanksgiving is the one we model our celebration after; for one thing, it included turkey:
Governor William Bradford
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Contributed by Hugh Laing on Jan 19, 2010
The attitude of the average Christian today is … “JUST RELAX AND ONE DAY BE RAPTURED.”
But He is coming with flaming vengeance on this world...with flaming vengeance!!!
And to you who think... “Some time ago I bought my ticket to Jordan” be warned...true Christians
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Baptist
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
GOD CHANGES THINGS
It was the late Donald Barnhouse the American pastor and author who stunned his congregation by saying, "Prayer changes nothing." The church was packed full of people, yet you could have heard a pin drop. Now his comment was
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Brethren
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2008
A woman decided the time had come to talk to her bright four-year-old son, Benji, about receiving Christ. "Benji," she asked quietly, "would you like to have Jesus in your heart?" Benji rolled his blue eyes
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 4, 2005
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I heard about a woman whose dad owned a grocery store when she was growing up, and several times a week the milkman would come to deliver milk to the store, and every time he saw her he would say, "How is my little Miss America doing today? So beautiful, so talented." Everyday, he would stack the
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Christian Church
Contributed by Ray Pritchard on Aug 28, 2003
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Nothing But Prayer and Worship
This week I chance to stop and worship God in an extended way for the first time in the last seven years. I spent four days with 75 other pastors in a Pastor’s Prayer Summit at a place called Wonderland Camp in Wisconsin. In my time I’ve been to many camps,
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