Contributed by Rick Pendleton on May 23, 2008
The church is like the huddle on the football field: the place you run to get new plans, to get prepared to go on offense against the enemies of God, the place where
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
We have a custom of viewing the body, not just out of curiosity or to judge the mortician’s skill but to face reality. In doing that we grieve, which ventilates our sorrow and helps to bring emotional healing and relief.
A young boy in my former pastorate suffered the death of his thirty-year-old
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Contributed by Clint Meade on Jun 3, 2007
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A bar of steel is worth just a few dollars.
When it is forged into a set of wrenches, it is worth approximately $100.
If that same bar of steel is made into many needles, it can be worth several hundred dollars.
If it is made into fine surgical instruments, it is worth thousands of dollars.
If
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 31, 2007
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Spurgeon in his commentary on Ps. 126 said, “The church must not only keep this seed in the storehouse, for such as come to inquire for it, but must also send her sowers forth to cast it among those who are ignorant of its value, or too indifferent to ask for it.
“The church must not sit weeping
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 25, 2009
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BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER
At some point or another you may have used this familiar phrase - Blood is thicker than water. The context in which we use it is to describe the meaning that blood-related families are more important than anyone else. R. Richard Pustelniak, congregational leader for the
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Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Jan 20, 2026
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There is a song that is often used at baptisms ...that seems so appropriate ... to help portray this new birth ... in Christ.
I will change your name
You shall no longer be called
Wounded, outcast, lonely or afraid
I will change your name
Your new name shall be
Confidence, joyfulness, overcoming
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"There is something awfully sad and strange about a culture in which teenage sex is condoned so long as it is safe, while teenage smoking is denounced as categorically wrong. Sex has become a mere
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Contributed by Dean Courtier on Oct 10, 2009
"Wisdom leads us to investigate and know the true facts about our faith. If a clock is wrong, we adjust it. It’s the sensible thing to do."
---Paul E. Little,
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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When you go to a doctor for your annual check-up, he or she will often begin to poke, prod, and press various places, all the while asking, "Does this hurt? How about this?" If you cry out in pain, one of two things has happened. Either the doctor has pushed too hard, without the right sensitivity.
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Contributed by Eyriche Cortez on Jul 18, 2005
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In one of the games in a classic Rose Bowl football contest in 1929, as recounted by Dr Bruce Wilkinson in his Vision of the Leader seminar, Roy Riegels desperately wanted his team to win. The scores were tied. Now, in a crucial moment of that game, Roy Riegels scooped up a loose ball. He cut in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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In the 1950s a psychologist, Stanton Samenow, and a psychiatrist, Samuel Yochelson, sharing the conventional wisdom that crime is caused by environment, set out to prove their point. They began a 17-year study involving thousands of hours of clinical testing of 250 inmates here in the District of
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