Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 2, 2008
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"God's 'glory' is how we describe the sum effect of all of his attributes: grace, truth, goodness, mercy, justice, knowledge, power, eternality--all that He is. Therefore, the glory of God is intrinsic; it is as essential to God as light is to the sun and as wet is to water. You don't make the sun
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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CELEBRATION FIRES
During the dark winter of 1864, at Petersburg, Virginia, the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee faced the Union divisions of General Ulysses S. Grant. Late one evening one of Lee's generals, Major General George Pickett, received word that his wife had given birth to a beautiful
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My first pastoral appointment was the Marissa and Zion United Methodist Charge in St. Clair County, Illinois, about forty miles southeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Zion had only three members and no electricity or running water. In past decades light had been provided in the sanctuary by kerosene,
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Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
In the nineteenth century,
lighthouses on the U.S. coasts
were tended by lighthouse keepers and their families.
If a man who tended the light became disabled,
often the work was picked up by his wife or children. Such was the case of Hosea Lewis.
In 1853 he became the keeper of the light
on
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Contributed by David Swinney on May 11, 2001
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One day a woman was rushing home from a doctor’s appointment. The doctor had been somewhat delayed at the hospital, and the lab work took a little longer than usual so by the time she left the clinic she was running quite a bit behind schedule. She still had to pick up her prescription, pick up
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Contributed by Tom Dooley on May 11, 2001
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Several years ago in the movie Hoosiers, Gene Hackman played the part of Norman Dale, a former college coach with a tainted past who was hired to coach a rural high-school basketball team from Hickory, Indiana. Coach Dale leads the team all the way to the state finals. On the day of the
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Contributed by Tom Burkholder on Sep 2, 2005
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Illustration: “Road Rage” By Dan Betzer
It happened just a couple of blocks from my study yesterday afternoon; it was about 4 o’clock with rush hour traffic. Iti our burgeoning county, it sometimes seems like every car on earth is in my lane. A young fellow kept weaving in and out of traffic,
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 10, 2006
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Thomas Andrew Dorsey was a black jazz musician from Atlanta. In the twenties he gained a certain amount of notoriety as the composer of jazz tunes with suggestive lyrics, but he gave all that up in 1926 to concentrate exclusively on spiritual music. "Peace in the Valley" is one of his best known
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 6, 2007
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Pursued by the Atoning Love
One evening a woman was driving home when she noticed a huge truck behind her that was driving uncomfortably close. She stepped on the gas to gain some distance from the truck, but when she sped up the truck did too. The faster she drove, the faster drove the truck.
Now
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Contributed by Jeremy Poling on Dec 30, 2007
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Thomas Andrew Dorsey was a black jazz musician from Atlanta. In the twenties he gained a certain amount of notoriety as the composer of jazz tunes with suggestive lyrics, but he gave all that up in 1926 to concentrate exclusively on spiritual music. "Peace in the Valley" is one of his best known
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
William Carey was an impoverished English shoemaker. .
After William Carey (1761-1834) was well established in his pioneer missionary work in India, his
supporters in England sent a printer to assist him. Soon the two men were turning out portions of the
Bible for distribution. Carey had spent
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 20, 2002
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I like what Gary Smalley has said about emotions. They are like the lights and gauges on a car’s dashboard. They indicate changes that you need to be
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 17, 2004
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Helen Keller: "I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing. They see nothing in the woods or sky, nothing in sports, nothing on the street. Their
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 14, 2010
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger than the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right;
Faith and Hope
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Baptist
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Picture a man departing from Cincinnati on his way to San Francisco, turning his car toward the east instead of the west. He realizes his mistake, but does not want to turn around; and so, in spite of regrets and resolutions and protestations that he wants to go to the Pacific coast, he one day
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Baptist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 30, 2007
Song by Paul Overstreet- God is good all the time He put a song of praise
In this heart of mine God is good all the time
Through the darkest night His
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Mar 19, 2010
May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love and joy of God’s presence and not a moment without the entire surrender of my self as a vessel for Him
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 12, 2009
On his 80th birthday someone asked Herbert Welch the secret of his serene spirit. He replied, "As I grow older, life become simpler, because I see
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