Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009
Some don’t pray much at all. A fisherman who was out of fellowship with the Lord was at sea with his godless companions when a storm came up and threatened to sink their ship. His friends begged him to pray; but he demurred, saying, "It’s been a long time since I’ve done that or even entered a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2004
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Imagine a banker who credited your account each morning with $86,400, and every evening took back whatever you didn’t use. What would you do? Draw out every penny and invest it, of course! Well, every morning God credits us with 86,400 seconds. Tonight, He’ll write off as lost what we do not
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Nov 10, 2005
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It used to be that to find out who or what was ‘in’ or ‘out’ you consulted the society section of the local newspaper, or Look magazine, or a well-known celebrity reporter for the latest on whatever was deemed the latest ‘in’ and ‘out.’ Now we have the Internet to help us determine what is ‘in’ and
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Church Of God
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When I was in the Navy, Sailors told each other all sorts of stories about what happened on various deployments or on liberty. They were called sea stories, and were often far from being true. In fact we used say that the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story was that a fairy tale begins
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Episcopal/Anglican
The authors give hard evidence to back up there opening statement about the need for healing today. They shared the following statistics from pages 4-7 "Caring for People God’s Way":
Marital Discord: Studies show 35% of persons who marry get a divorce, and 18% of those divorced are divorced
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 20, 2008
Several months back as I was traveling along one of the interstate routes I noticed a sign that was kind of a play off of an older advertisement scheme of the dairy industry. It was nothing more than a solid black background with a two word question in bold white lettering: “Got Prayer?”
This
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Contributed by Lynn Malone on May 18, 2005
"If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least given them more of the one they’ve got — and make that one more loving. I will be available, I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when
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Methodist
Contributed by Jeffrey Rowe on Dec 29, 2012
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In Psalm 23, death is described as casting a shadow. Let’s look at that for a moment.
Have you ever been enjoying a nice sunny day when all of a sudden a dark cloud hides the sun? All of a sudden you’re in this shadow!
What does the shadow do? It hides the light. It makes it more difficult to
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Holiness
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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A young boy by the name of James had a desire to be the most famous manufacturer and salesman of cheese in the world. He planned on becoming rich and famous by making and selling cheese and began with a little buggy pulled by a pony named Paddy. After making his cheese, he would load his wagon and
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Mar 20, 2009
THE STORY OF FRIDA
Frida Gashumba tells something of her story in her book Frida: Chosen to Die, Destined to Live, a miraculous escape from the Rwandan genocide. Frida was born in 1980. She was a Tutsi, one of the tribes 'created' during colonial rule based primarily upon height, head size, shape
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Anglican
Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 19, 2009
KNOWING SCRIPTURE TO SAVE YOUR LIFE
Several years ago in Guatemala, a young Christian named Paulos had been arrested with a gang of robbers. In that place and in those days, anyone suspected of a crime, was immediately taken to an open field, ordered to dig a hole, and then toppled into the hole
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