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It’s interesting that there has been such an increase of shows on television that involve the court room. These shows really are all about the judge. He or she is the focus of the program. There is an entire station now devoted to Court TV. It all started with the “people’s Court” and Judge
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Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Jul 31, 2011
We live in a world today that we should sift all our children’s activities and things that they are exposed to each day as though we were looking and inspecting the candy they get on Halloween night and throw out the things that look suspicious. I know it’s hard and most of the time just impossible
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jul 13, 2008
Airport terminals are entertaining venues to hang out if you cannot afford the movies! The most interesting storylines involve watching people arriving or leaving. The couple huddled – more like a locked embrace – as she struggles to let him go through security. My recent trip to British Columbia
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 30, 2001
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Thomas Carlyle, the noted historian, had just spent two years writing a book on the French Revolution. On the day he finished his manuscript he gave his only copy to a colleague, John Stuart Mill, to read and critique.
But, then the unthinkable occurred. Mill’s servant used Carlyle’s
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Jesus is the Truth that sets us free, and that freedom comes through knowing Him personally in a one-on-one relationship. There is a tremendous difference in knowing about a person and knowing that person. I know about President Bush and Prince Charles, but I do not have a personal relationship
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Methodist
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 13, 2005
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The closest I ever came to feeling like Abraham’s servant: our return from Alaska. After serving with a mission congregation for five years, we concluded it was time to return to the "Lower 48." I made arrangements to visit four seperate congregations in the midwest; each paid one fourth of the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Michael Brown on Mar 11, 2008
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Who is Jesus?
In chemistry, He turned water to wine;
In biology, He was born without the normal conception;
In physics, He disproved the law of gravity when he ascended into heaven;
In economics, He disproved the law of diminishing return by feeding 5000 men with two fish & five loaves of
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
He is calling you to this full-time Christian service.
Story: On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus, whose name means “Christ-bearer,” sailed toward the Bahamas. When he landed on the beach, he planted a standard and claimed the territory for Spain and for the glory of God. He recorded his
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 2, 2003
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ILLUSTRATION… Retold from "The Book of Virtues" Editor: William J. Bennett
There is a story that centers on a king and the members of his court who were continually full of flattery. "You are the greatest man that ever lived...You are the most powerful king of all...Your highness, there is nothing
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 7, 2003
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When I was in South Africa, a fine, handsome Dutchman came into my service, and God laid his hand on him and convicted him of sin. The next morning he went to the beautiful home of another Dutchman and said to him, “Do you recognize that old watch?”
“Why, yes,” answered the other. “Those are
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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In some respects the church today is like a football game. Bud Wilkinson, football coach of the Oklahoma Sooners before he joined the President’s Physical Fitness Program and later became a commentator for ABC, was asked, “What contribution does professional sports make to the physical fitness of
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Contributed by Chris Willis on Oct 23, 2007
Mark Twain was a brilliant writer who used his fair share of idioms, and he used our idiom this morning when he wrote Pudd’nhead Wilson in 1894. This is what he wrote, Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by John Perry on Feb 8, 2010
When I was in Samoa I visited the home of the famous author Robert Louis Stevenson who was buried on a mountain overlooking the capital of Apia. One night in Scotland where he grew up, just before young Robert got into bed he was peering out through the window of his upstairs bedroom. He was
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