Contributed by Brian Atwood on Jan 12, 2008
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For almost forty years, Margaret lived with the memory of one soul-scarring day in the one-room schoolhouse she attended. From the first day Margaret came to class, she and Ms. Garner, her bitter and harsh teacher, didn’t get along. Over the years, the animosity between them only worsened until
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OBJECT LESSON: A BRANCH ON A TREE OR A STICK IN THE MUD?
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Theme: Apart from Jesus, we can do nothing
Object: Two branches that has been broken from a tree -- one with leaves withering, the other without any leaves at all.
Scripture: "I am the vine; you
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 8, 2007
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Illustration: A Better Plan
When in college Robert J , Morgan came across a poem written by a teenage girl looking for a husband. It was written as a prayer, and this is what she said:
Dear God, I pray all unafraid / As girls are wont to be
I do not want a handsome man / But make him, Lord, like
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Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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Excuses, Excuses
In Luke 14:16 - 24, Jesus teaches using the "Parable of the Great Banquet." In it, Jesus shares about a man who was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. It was the custom then, as it is today, to send out invitations to such a special event quite a long
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jul 22, 2002
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The final picture of God’s love for us through Jesus Christ comes for a story told by the late Pastor Louis Valbracht as he relates an event in his life.
He says:
I remember when I returned from over seas at the end of W.W. II, I was met by a nearly-three-year-old daughter whom I hadn’t seen
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Contributed by Keith Broyles on Nov 24, 2008
How easy it is to give credit and thanks to everything and everyone but the real source of al our blessings! God deserves our thanks.
For some of us there may be many reasons to be thankful this coming Thursday. Perhaps we may even see it as the best year we have ever had. For others of us, it
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Bill Hybel’s in His book “Making Life Work” states this about this kind of mindset – he words it this way:
1. “Some way, some day my life will improve. Some way, someday I’ll drift into more satisfying circumstances. Some way, some day what I want will come to be. Built on the fantasy that rewards
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GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES
Roger Simms shared this testimony in a book:
May 7 the day Roger was discharged from the army. He couldn’t get a bus so he decided to hitchhike his way home. Carry his heavy suitcase and in his army uniform, he flashed for the on-coming car. It was a luxurious, black
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Momma growing up would get angry with her children. She would refuse us some requests that we made from her. With feigned tears in our eyes, we would ask, how come we couldn’t go outside? How come we had to do our homework after we got home? How come we couldn’t do like the other kids do – and
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Contributed by David Wilson on Sep 28, 2007
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The answer seems obvious you take the selfish test.
So here we go:
1. If the last time you said “I love you” and really meant it, you were looking in a mirror you might have a problem with self.
2. If your most memorable vacation only required one airline ticket you might have a problem with
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Contributed by Tom Conant on Apr 3, 2009
BOOMERANGS AND GREED
The world we live in says, "Grab on, hold tightly, squeeze till get what you want." Jesus teaches a paradox: "You can never touch what you grab for, and you can’t keep what you think you’re holding. As soon as you think you have piled up the good life – made your mark – it
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Contributed by Lynn Malone on Sep 21, 2005
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A man walking along a path one day stumbles and falls into a pit. A Christian Scientist along his journey walks by, sees the man in the pit and says, “You only think you’re in a pit,” and continues on his way. A Pharisee soon walks by, discovers the man the pit and says, “Only bad people fall
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jan 1, 2010
Poem: “Just One Request”
“Dear Master for this coming year
Just one request I bring:
I do not pray for happiness,
Or any earthly thing—
I do not ask to understand
The way Thou leadest me,
But this I ask: Teach me to do
The thing that pleaseth Thee.
I want to know Thy guiding voice,
To walk
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 18, 2001
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We have a clear glass dining table in a condo that our family uses during the various holidays. One of the favorite pasttimes of our family is to begin a puzzle and complete it during our stay. The glass table is our favorite place to put a puzzle together.
One afternoon after playing a round of
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