Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 23, 2002
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DAD'S RESOLUTION
Last year when I called my parents to wish them a happy New Year, my dad answered the phone. "Well, Dad, what’s your New Year’s resolution?" I asked him. "To make your mother as happy as I can all year," he answered proudly. Then mom got on, and I said, "What’s your resolution,
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 28, 2009
For years the opening of “The Wide World of Sports” television program illustrated “the agony of defeat” with a painful ending to an attempted ski jump. The skier appeared in good form as he headed down the jump, but then, for no apparent reason, he tumbled head over heels off the side of the jump,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 19, 2009
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PLANET OF THE YEAR
Time Magazine in 1989 celebrated not the Person of the Year but the Planet of Year. It was a wakeup call for me and convicted me and my faith.
"Through most of his 2 million years or so of existence, man has thrived in earth's environment -- perhaps too well.... The reason is
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Methodist
Three years and a half years ago, an incident occurred that I filed back because I knew at some point that I would have a message to place it in. In fact, I heard Anthony Mangun use it in a message that he preached. I have some friends that incorporated it into some sermons that they preached.
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The old year dies and we face the new year as though it were an entity, new as a newborn babe.Yet, all our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shapeand years end is neither an end nor a
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RESOLUTIONS THROUGH THE YEARS
Has anyone decided what your New Year’s Resolutions will be for 2011? Before you do it, let’s take a look at how Resolutions tend to work out… Here are some examples:
2007: I will read at least 10 books this year
2008: I will try to finish the book I started last
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
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MARKING THE TIME
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.
Even when a new century begins it is only we
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Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Dec 20, 2004
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Shakespeare once wrote:
"there is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries."
The Latins had a phrase that expressed the same idea:
"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero," which
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Baptist
Contributed by Joel Santos on Dec 26, 2004
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A certain king had two servants. To the first he said, "I want you to travel for six months through my kingdom and bring back a sample of every weed you can find."
To the second servant the king said, "I want you to travel through my kingdom for six months and bring back a sample of every flower
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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