Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 17, 2009
"What we value speaks volumes about us. When the oil industry got going, gasoline was a curious side-product. It wasn’t good for much. When auto pioneers worked on developing engines, they would buy gasoline by the quart from the pharmacy. Now, we fight wars over oil fields; we value what once was
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 8, 2009
I have broken many pocket knives, using them for purposes not intended by the manufacturer. I have broken a couple trying to pry something. (Take out pocket knife and show as an object lesson).
God blesses us with material things. He helps us find a career and our place in this world. He gives
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Mar 9, 2010
Joshua challenges us to put away our idols! Now, we have a TV show called American Idol, but let me show you some real idols. These were given to my mother by Art & Ruth Morris, founders of South India Church of Christ Mission. What you are looking at are Hindu pocket gods. Hindus have many gods,
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Moreover, Benedict tells us what decent work is. It expresses the “essential dignity of every man and woman in the context of their particular society: work that is freely chosen, effectively associating workers, both men and women, with the development of their community; work that enables the
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Contributed by David Swinney on May 31, 2010
My dad used to tell a story about an old Georgia redneck who would routinely head out into the swamp and return with a boat full of fish—more than anyone could conceivably catch, even in a long day of fishing with rod and reel. Well, in the course of time, his exceptional good luck caught the
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 4, 2012
Thomas Jefferson wrote, "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?
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Contributed by Jay Winters on May 30, 2015
MTV gave us our first ever "reality show", a thing called "The Real World" that came out in 1992. The first "Real World" cast sought to show us what happens when you put seven strangers in a house together, and quote, "people stop being polite, and start being real". And the world sat there, glued
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enry Ward Beecher said something truly helps us here. “If one should give me a dish of sand and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes and search for them with my clumsy fingers and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it and
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“When I was a boy I used to hug a rubber hot water bottle in bed at night to beat off the chill air from the frigid Irish Sea. Comfort! One morning I woke up wet, cold, and miserable. The rubber hot water bottle had perished. It had slowly deteriorated, imperceptibly disintegrated and was
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 24, 2008
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Many of us are lost and we don’t even know it…George Orwell’s essays, offers a graphic image of human lostness. Orwell describes a wasp that “was sucking jam on my plate and I cut him in half. He paid no attention, merely went on with his meal, while a tiny stream of jam trickled out of his
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Who among us hast not feared death at one time or another? The chorus of a Bluegrass Gospel Song recorded by such artists as Loretta Lynn and Decatur, Illinois’, Alison Krauss sums it up so well:
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Lord I wanna go to Heaven, but I don’t
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
God doesn’t just want us to not do wrong, but Jesus wants us to do right.
From Fred Smith’s Sermon:
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