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  • In Preaching Today, Leith Anderson Wrote The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tony Miano on Feb 24, 2001
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    In Preaching Today, Leith Anderson wrote the following. “My family and I have lived in the same house for seventeen years. We’ve lived there more than twice as long as I have lived at any other address in my entire life. I’ll sometimes refer to it as ‘our house,’ but more often I refer to it as ...read more

  • When I Grow Up I Want To Be Like You  PRO

    Contributed by Brent Williams on Jun 19, 2001
    based on 121 ratings
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    When I Grow Up I Want To Be Like You As children we all have our heroes The people we want to be like The Mickey Mantle’s and the Michael Jordan’s The person I wanted to be like taught me how to catch a baseball He taught me how to shoot a free throw But he also taught me how to do something ...read more

  • Sitting Together At The Supper Table, My 5 Year ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 30, 2001
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    Sitting together at the supper table, my 5 year old daughter Rachel asked if she could ask the blessing. "Sure," I said. Obviously hungry, she very concisely prayed, "Dear Jesus, thank you for the food. Amen." My wife and I, and our two older children, were surprised because Rachel was famous for ...read more

  • In Leadership Magazine, Dave Wilkinson Writes The ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 23, 2002
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    In Leadership magazine, Dave Wilkinson writes the following to pastors… Have you ever wondered why your pastoral resume doesn’t evoke more enthusiasm? Do you ever think, "What are these people looking for?" Perhaps the question should be, "What aren’t they looking for?" because with the numbers of ...read more

  • Brother Lawrence Was A French Monk Who Lived From ...  PRO

    Contributed by Carla Powell on Feb 2, 2002
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    Brother Lawrence was a French monk who lived from 1611 to 1691. You might think that a man who was born nearly 400 years ago would have very little to say to today’s working people, but he had some great insights into our theme of ministry in daily life. Brother Lawrence (The Practice of the ...read more

  • The Hope In A Rocket  PRO

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Feb 28, 2002
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    THE HOPE IN A ROCKET October Sky is a great movie. It is based on the autobiography of former NASA science engineer Homer Hickam, Jr. It is about four boys who embody the hope of a community. It’s 1957 in Coalwood, West Virginia where all the boys grow up to be coal miners. Homer Hickam ...read more

  • Those Apron Strings  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2002
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    THOSE APRON STRINGS To “let go” does not mean to stop caring, it means that I can’t do it for someone else. To “let go” is not to cut myself off, it is the realization that I can’t control another. To “let go” is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences. To “let go” is to ...read more

  • I Cannot Call You Friend!  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Jun 28, 2002
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    I CANNOT CALL YOU FRIEND! Unknown... My friend, I stand in judgment now. And I fill that you are to blame somehow. On earth I walked with you day by day. But never did you point the way. You knew the LORD, In His truth and His glory. But never did you share the story! ? My knowledge then was very ...read more

  • A Young Boy Was Leaving For Iraq And On His Last ...

    Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Jun 16, 2007
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    A young boy was leaving for Iraq and on his last night at home he went out with his friends. Arriving home about 11:30 he made his regular stop at the refrigerator. The mother and father were in bed upstairs, and as always did not feel right until they heard him come in. The mother said to the ...read more

  • The God Of Unmatched Shoes  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A man who was commissioned to paint a picture of the Prodigal Son. He went into his work fervently, laboring to produce a picture worthy of telling the story. Finally, the day came when the picture was complete, and he unveiled the finished painting. The scene was set outside the father’s house, ...read more

  • First Of All, What Is A Shepherd And What Does ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    First of all, what is a shepherd and what does he do? I think that Dr. Andrew Bonar, a close friend and biographer of Robert Murray M’Cheyne, says it best when he had this to say to a friend of his about sheep and shepherds. Dr. Andrew Bonar told me how, in the Highlands of Scotland, a sheep would ...read more

  • The People There Were A Labor Of Love For Paul, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The people there were a labor of love for Paul, and now, it looked like things might fall apart because of some insignificant argument or offense. Have you ever been there? You’ve put your heart and soul into some project or person, and something so small that it goes unnoticed or ignored gets in ...read more

  • In Bill Moyers's Book A World Of Ideas Ii, Jacob ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    In Bill Moyers’s book A World of Ideas II, Jacob Needleman remembers, "I was an observer at the launch of Apollo 17 in 1975. It was a night launch, and there were hundreds of cynical reporters all over the lawn, drinking beer, wisecracking, and waiting for this 35-story-high rocket. "The ...read more

  • Serving Jesus

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Serving Jesus • A certain family in a Southern Baptist Church had been inactive for years. • The family simply never went to church any more and every effort to get them to attend had failed. • One day one of the sons, name John, was bitten by a rattlesnake. The father immediately sent for the ...read more

  • Do You Know The Legend Of The Cherokee Indian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of passage? His dad takes him into the forest blindfolded and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not take off the blindfold until the ray of sun shines through it. He is all by himself. He cannot cry out ...read more

  • But In Spite Of The Indisputable Evidence From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    But in spite of the indisputable evidence from God’s Word, it seems that we really struggle with the fact that we can’t earn our own salvation. I guess that’s because it goes against everything else we’ve learned in our lives, especially the way that grades are determined when we go to school. ...read more

  • A Man Named Victor Frankl, A Jewish Psychiatrist ...

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jul 10, 2007
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    A man named Victor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, discovered this great truth in the midst of a Jewish concentration camp during WW II. While seeking to survive the horror of this imprisonment Frankl began observing his fellow prisoners in the hope of discovering what coping ...read more

  • Here's How Several Elementary School Students ...  PRO

    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Aug 22, 2007
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    Here’s how several elementary school students answered the following questions about moms: Why did God make mothers? • She’s the only one who knows where the Scotch tape is. • Mostly to clean the house. • To help us out of there when we were getting born. How did God make mothers? • He used ...read more

  • Video Clip: The Guardian - Start: Chp. 5 43:54 - ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 23, 2007
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    Video Clip: The Guardian - Start: Chp. 5 43:54 - Stop: 46:16 Senior Chief Randall had a choice. He could have taught the recruits about hypothermia as an abstract theory during a lecture from the comfort of a classroom. Instead, Randall chose to fill the pool with freezing water and then share ...read more

  • Ill- Keep The Image Sharp - Our Daily Bread - ...

    Contributed by Richard Sharp on Oct 27, 2007
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    ILL- Keep the Image Sharp - Our Daily Bread - April 1985 The 19th century French inventor Louis Daguerre was one of the pioneers of photography. In those early days, he could take a picture by exposing a metal plate to light. When the plate was taken out of the camera, however the ...read more