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Listen to how Bill Hybels described what Hell might feel like:
“The bottomless pit…conjures up dreamlike feelings of falling away -- falling, falling, falling. You’ve all had dreams like that; where when you woke your heart was beating because you were falling. Picture in your mind hanging over a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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The Christian Leader Profile™ categorizes leaders into one of four types: Directing, Strategic, Team-Building or Operational. Directing leaders, tend to be the “big picture,” motivational leaders focus people’s attention on vision for the future, are most likely to exhibit biblical values. However,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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The noted Bible scholar James M. Gray told a story that underscores the importance of reading the Scriptures for personal growth. He said that when he was a young Bible teacher he became deeply impressed by the peace and spiritual poise of a friend with whom he often talked. Since Gray wanted that
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Irritation in a Church Service:
It is not all that strange for people to come to church and be dissatisfied with something going on there. On the two occasions I had recently to sit out in the audience at church with my family I noticed myself focusing on things like the temperature of the room
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on May 8, 2006
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’Chaplain Ernst Gordon in his book "Through the Valley of the Quai" tells of the hardship prisoners of War during World War II as they were imprisoned by the Japanese army. These men wrote Chaplain Gordon were reduced to skeletons, riddled with disease, and the only way they could survive was by
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Lutheran
Contributed by James Bryant on Jul 10, 2006
In Pro Football, if you’re the last player selected coming out of college, you own the title, “Mr. Irrelevent.” Because being the last person selected, your not supposed to amount to much…
In 1992, the National Football League held it’s annual draft.
· Selected #1 overall was the much herald
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Baptist
Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2006
One of the great things about kids is that their perspective can often give us adults a new perspective on things that we take fore granted or they can give us an entirely new view of something unique and different.
I am reminded of this in a heart-touching story about four year old Shane and the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 24, 2006
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Some of you are familiar with the television show Deal, or No Deal. It consists of 26 cases, each containing a different amount of money. The contestants don’t know the sum of money in each case, and they try to pick the one with the greatest amount of money. They open the cases, one by one,
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Methodist
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 27, 2006
Jeff Hartings (Steelers Center) accompanied Steelers chaplain Jay Wilson on a mission trip to Nicaragua in 2004 and said that trip, along with the knee injury he overcame to gain his Pro Bowl status, has changed his career.
“God humbled me with the injury, but over last three years I’ve been able
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Robert Castile on Jan 2, 2007
Try this on for size. These are twelve questions for the purpose of self-examination proposed by the famous Methodist missionary John Fletcher of Madeley. He called them "Self-examination Questions for Spiritual People." And he meant that we should ask ourselves these questions each and every
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Holiness
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
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DR. HENRY BRANDT told of going to visit a friend whose wife had died. While there he shared these wonderful words of the apostle Paul from II Cor. 1:3-4, 8-11a: "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all
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Pentecostal
Contributed by James Jack on Jun 9, 2007
Just over a year ago, Kerry Packer died. You’ve probably all heard of him. Richest man in Australia, he was. When he died there were memorial services, TV specials, an outpouring of praise for this “Great Australian”. Now I’m not going to compare Packer to an Adolf Hitler, but he was like many
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Anglican
Contributed by Fred Sigle on Jun 12, 2007
Pat Tillman played safety for the Arizona Cardinals for four years and was offered a 3.6 million dollar contract to return in the fall of 2002 when he decided to LEAVE his LUCRATIVE FOOTBALL CAREER to join the ARMY in response to the 9/11 ATTACK on America. He was trained as an Army Ranger, an
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 18, 2007
The greater the man, the greater he will see his role as father. General Douglas MacArthur, supreme commander of Allied forces during WWII said:
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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F. We were made by God, from out of the dust of the earth.
Gen 2:7 (AMP) Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.
1. Your body contains about:
a. Enough iron to make a small nail.
b. Enough
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A father takes a hike with his one-year-old son who is in a carrier on his back. The hike leads around the perimeter of a lake. In spite of gathering clouds, father and son attack the rugged trail. Half way around the lake, it begins to rain. The father reaches back and pulls his son’s hood over
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Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 22, 2007
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In the movie Glory Road, Basketball Coach Don Haskins, was just a small-town family man trying to make an unforgettable mark in his first job as a collegiate basketball coach. He got a coaching job with the Texas Western miners. He went on the recruiting trail to find the best talent in the land,
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Methodist
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