Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2003
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JUST WHAT I NEEDED
One mother described how her teenage daughter taught her the power of listening. One evening after dinner her daughter was especially disappointed and depressed about a situation at school. Although she was tired herself, the mother sat and listened as her daughter poured out
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 30, 2003
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WHAT ARE THEY TEACHING OUR KIDS
A few years ago, the U.S. Dept. of Education released a 680-page report about the teaching of History in our schools today. Researchers had taken the 60 most popular history textbooks, used by 88% of the nation’s students, & went through them to see what we’re
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It is significant to mention what happened to Smith Wigglesworth when he first received the ability to speak in tongues in Sunderland in 1907.
He described this experience as follows: "She [Mrs Boddy, a minister’s wife] laid her hands on me and then had to go out of the room. The fire fell. It was
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Aug 5, 2003
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"No local congregation will be what it should be, what Jesus prayed that it would be, what the Holy Spirit gifted it and empowered it to be,
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Contributed by S Henriques on Sep 6, 2003
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Henry Blackaby once wrote,
“When God was ready to judge the world with a flood, He came to Noah. When He desired to build a nation for Himself, He turned to Abraham. When He heard His children groaning under Egyptian bondage, He appeared in a burning bush to Moses. They were three of the most
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2004
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WHAT DO MOTHERS WANT?
Maggie Gallagher is President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and a co-author of The Case for Marriage.
As an early-forties mom, she is beginning to regret the children that she never had. She always wanted four, but career and life left her with two.
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 19, 2004
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ILLUSTRATION... “What if God Was One of Us?” by Joan Osborne
The world sometimes wonders about God and wonders what He is like and what He is up to. Most people believe there is a God up there but they do not know what He is like. A pop song in 1995 by Joan Osbourne entitled, ’What if God was
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 12, 2004
Sex is to a husband what conversation is to a wife. When a wife deprives her husband of sex for days, even weeks on end, it is tantamount to his refusing to talk to her for days, even weeks.
Laura Schlessinger,
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 15, 2004
IN – the introduction to his book, ‘What The Bible says About Money,’ Alger Fitch writes;
We need to be aware that we are but a small percent of the world’s population (less than 5%)… yet it is estimated that we own 50% of the earth’s wealth. We are an island of plenty in the sea of poverty. We
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 15, 2005
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There is such a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation.
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This is a story I came up with-
A little girl asked her father what freedom meant. Her dad answered by saying, "Darling, freedom is something you can’t hold with your hands but that people have fought and died to protect. Freedom is something you can’t have without someone shedding their blood,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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What is a Christian? In the LETTER TO DIOGNETUS, which dates back to the second century A.D., an anonymous writer describes a strange people who are in the world but not of the world.
“Christians are not differentiated from other people by country, language, or customs; you see, they do not live
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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What is carnality? According to the Greek dictionary, it means to have the nature and characteristics of the flesh (or more simply, it means "fleshly"). What, then , is the flesh? Sometimes it refers to the whole material part of man (1 Corinthians 15:39; Hebrews 5:7), and based on this meaning,
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Contributed by W F on Jul 3, 2006
What bricks and mortar are to a building, a marriage is to a community in which it lives and loves. There can be no doubt that a community will crumble and collapse if marriage is allowed to crumble and collapse. And history is strewn with example after example of this.
The Roman empire is just
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Contributed by Mitch Davis on Aug 4, 2006
Be Careful What You Say
In the course of your conversation each and every day,
Think twice, try to be careful of what you have to say;
Your remarks may be picked up by someone’s listening ear,
You may be surprised at what some people think they hear.
Things that you innocently say, or try to
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