Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 20, 2009
ON TEMPTATION
A number of years ago, the Douglas Aircraft company was competing with Boeing to sell Eastern Airlines its first big jets. War hero Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Airlines, reportedly told Donald Douglas that the specifications and claims made by Douglas’s company for the
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2002
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GENERATION TO GENERATION
A little girl called out, "Mommy, you know that vase china cabinet, the one that’s been handed down from generation to generation?"
Yes, dear, I know which one you mean, what about it?
"Well, Mommy, I’m sorry, but this generation just dropped it!"
Now some earthly
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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
There was this man and a woman who got married. But they shared the same birthday and they decided to get married on the same day. So they got married, had a few kids, and lived the lives they dreamed.
But 20 years passed. They were celebrating their 40th anniversary
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Alan Tison on May 26, 2008
Some people will do anything to avoid confrontation, I heard of a man who was going through a mid life crisis. He went out and bought a new car, but not just any car, but a new Corvette. As he pulled up on I-95 he noticed he was going 80 MPH, he thought boy that was easy. At that point, he wanted
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Brian Harvison on Oct 3, 2023
Have you seen the Kid’s Candy Challenge videos?
• What happens in the Kid’s Candy Challenge is the parent tells their small child or children that they can have
some candy
• But they have to wait until mom or dad gets back
• The candy is set right in front of them
• Along with a phone to
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Baptist
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A well-known author once told this story of an account he had with sea gulls: “Several years ago our family visited Niagara Falls. It was spring, and ice was rushing down the river. As I viewed the large blocks of ice flowing toward the falls, I could see that there were dead fish embedded in the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 26, 2003
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When the Federal troops occupied Cheraw, South Carolina, the Confederates left so much gun powder behind that the Union troops decided to dump most of it in a little creek. Some of the Union troops were looking for some entertainment so they scooped up handfuls of the powder and carried it to
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Contributed by Klaus Mehrl on Jul 10, 2005
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A father told the story of his son’s first serious conflict at school. His boy was being picked on by three bullies. They would punch him, push his bike over, and generally made his life miserable. They told him that they’d meet him the next morning before school and beat him up. That evening the
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Lutheran
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THE SEVEN STEPS OF TEMPTATION:
· Tempted – The thought of evil NOT A SIN YET!!!
· Drawn away – strong imagination
· Lust – self gratification and desire
· Entice – weakening of the will
· Lust conceived – yielding to that desire / carrying out the thought.
· Sin – committing the act missing
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Apostolic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
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William Barclay - Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of
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