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In 1981, a Minnesota radio station reported a story about a stolen car in California. Police were staging an intense search for the vehicle and the driver, even to the point of placing announcements on local radio stations to contact the thief.On the front seat of the stolen car sat a box of
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 8, 2002
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Living together before marriage is nothing more than “playing house.” It’s being shown that living together is not best. Charles Colson sites the National Survey of Families & Households. In that survey they came up with some startling data. It found that almost half of all couples who cohabit
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Christian Church
Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 7, 2002
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A limerick conveys a message very pertinent to all of us in the Lord’s Body. There once were two cats of Killkenny. Each thought there was one cat too many. They fought and they spit, they clawed and they bit, till instead of two cats there weren’t any! How many times have we seen the saga of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2002
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JUST LIKE ME
John Howard Griffin was a white man who believed he could never understand the plight of African-Americans unless he became like one. In 1959, he darkened his skin with medication, sun lamps, and stains, then traveled throughout the South. His book, Black Like Me, helped whites
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2003
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HUNGRY FOR PEACE
Much, if not most, of the social turmoil of our culture is due to a hunger for peace, which is sought for in all the wrong places. According to Ronald Hutchcraft, the Director of Youth for Christ in New York and New Jersey, in the next thirty minutes-
57 kids will run away from
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2003
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The famious evangelist Bill Sunday was looking for people to tell about Jesus.
-Since he was going to be in this city he wrote a letter to the mayor in which he asked for the name of individuals he knew who had a spiritual problem and needed help and prayer.
-How surprised
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Contributed by Ron Crow on Mar 7, 2003
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The physics professor had just finished his lecture about the pendulum, wherein he had shown the mathematical proof that an untouched pendulum will always swing in ever-decreasing arcs.
He then asked for a volunteer to demonstrate this fact by standing against a wall with a pendulum bob against
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Contributed by Nick Scarpa on May 24, 2003
The Barna Research group gathers statistics on Christian America and reported the following information in 2002:
85% of Americans claim to be Christian
8 out of 10 people consider themselves to be Christian
It’s apparent that many do not really have a relationship with Christ
A majority of these
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 6, 2003
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There was a little town called Flagstaff. The town was to be flooded because of a dam that would make a large lake. As the battle over the dam and flooding proceeded the citizens were sure that they had lost their battle. All improvements and repairs in the whole town were stopped. What was the
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Contributed by Gary Huckaby on Jun 30, 2003
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Often when we sin, and get caught in the act by the Lord, and He ask us what we are doing, we reply, "Nothing!" "I wasn’t doing anything."
It is kinda like the time that I caught my oldest daughter (she was about 3 or 4 years old) eating jelly out of the Jelly jar. "Nikki, are you eating out of
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Contributed by Tom Lovorn on Jul 21, 2003
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I read this week of a house fire in the middle east where a man ran back into his burning house to get his valuables, but he didn’t make it out. He was found in the ashes clutching an ivory idol. The headlines read, "Man dies trying to save his god." Two thousand years ago on a hill called
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Contributed by Mary Lewis on Aug 3, 2003
M. Cherif Bassiouni has been a law professor at DePaul University College of Law for over 30 years. He is one of the world’s leading authorities on international criminal law and human rights. In 1999, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing the International
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Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 24, 2003
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Illustration:
I worked in a hog-slaughtering factory for a year when I first came to plant this church. The boss’s adult son used to walk around wearing a white hat and barking orders at everyone but none of the workers respected him the way they did his dad. They knew he was just a pretender. If
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Mennonite
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 3, 2003
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According to John de Graaf in his book, "Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic," the average American household carried a credit-card debt of $7,654 in the year 2000. Our supermarkets provide us an average choice of 30,000 items, about two and a half times the number of choices available in 1980.
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Independent/Bible
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As a kid in a Baptist church, once a month after the morning service we had a fellowship hour. The congregation would immediately retire to the basement fellowship hall (there’s that word again), a room used for talking and eating for cookies and conversation. When you are twelve, you are most
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Pentecostal
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Video Illustration: The Beginning of Mission Impossible when the agent accepts the Mission.
We look a video clip like this and we admire this man for accepting the mission and all the risks that go along with it. The truth is we envy this man because he is willing to live his life on the edge and
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
We need not fear acknowledging the darkness within us. If you have read Dante’s Divine Comedy, you will remember that Dante described himself as being lost in the dark woods. After a while, he looked up and saw Paradise brilliantly crowning the crest of a nearby mountain. As you and I might have
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