Contributed by Greg Buchner on Oct 11, 2004
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“A 2 a.m. Miracle” – Joni Eareckson Tada
It was 2 a.m. and Ken, my husband was snoring softly beside me, not aware that I was biting my lip to keep from waking him up. The combination of my paralysis with middle-of-the-night insomnia always makes me feel claustrophobic. But this was different. The
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jan 14, 2007
Back in 1905, there was baseball game at Salt Lake City, Utah. The Rhyolites were playing the Beattys and the Beattys were up to bat. The pitcher threw the ball, the batter swung - and the ball rocketed toward 1st base.
The 1st baseman was a man named William Giffiths, and as he saw the ball
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2007
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THE BUZZARD
If you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6’ x 8’ and is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of 10-12’. Without space to run, as is its habit, it
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Mark was a 10 year old boy who never misbehaved or caused problems at school. But unfortunately he never made very good grades in spelling.
One day during a spelling test he was tempted to copy off of Jane, who always made straight “A’s” in spelling. Even though Mark was a Christian, and knew
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Baptist
JOHN STOTT ON TEMPTATION
"The command to get rid of troublesome eyes, hands and feet
is an example of our Lord’s use of dramatic figures of speech. What he was advocating was not a literal physical self-maiming, but a ruthless moral self-denial...to reject sinful practices so resolutely that we
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Contributed by Michael Bird on Jan 15, 2002
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Abraham Kuyper, put it this way:
“When Jesus looks at his universe from his exalted throne at the right hand of the Father, and he sees the great galaxies whirling in space, the planets and the people upon this planet, and all the minute details of life here including the details
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 28, 2002
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The prominent evolutionist William Provine of Cornell University candidly conceded that if Darwinism is true, then there are five inescapable implications: there’s no evidence for God; there’s no life after death; there’s no absolute foundation for right and wrong; there’s no ultimate
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 23, 2002
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SO FAR BEHIND
The cartoon character Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes once said, “God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind I’ll never die.”
SOURCE: Matthew Rogers in "Making
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 5, 2003
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A PRESIDENTIAL PRAYER
"Almighty God...make full and complete our dedication to the service of the people in this throng, and their fellow citizens everywhere. Give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the
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Contributed by Joe Fornear on Oct 12, 2004
A rookie baseball pitcher who was struggling trying to get his pitches over the plate, so the catcher walked out to have a talk with him. "I’ve figured out your problem," he told the young southpaw. "You always seem to lose control at the same point in
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Contributed by Glenn Teal on Dec 7, 2005
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Is Narnia the only world in which there are unseen forces – both good and evil – are at work?
Is Narnia the only place where an evil imposter
has taken the place of the rightful King and brought otherwise good people under a wicked spell?
And that lion Aslan – is Narnia the
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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For centuries educated and literate persons considered it important to start the day by getting out of bed on the right side. The meaning of the verbal formula, which is now more familiar than the ceremony that produced it, is literal. To get out of bed on the left side was to invite
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