Contributed by David Yarbrough on Jul 21, 2002
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It shocks us when we realize that great men and women go through periods of deep, dark depression. For instance, Winston Churchill said, "Depression followed me around like a black dog all of my life." A young lawyer in the 1800’s suffered such a deep depression that his friends did everything they
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Nov 10, 2002
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May your Saturday mornings be special.
The author is unknown.
The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it’s the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it’s the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2002
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GETTING PAST YOUR PAST
Consider Charles Colson, the aide to Richard Nixon who was sent to jail for Watergate. As as a result of his experience as a convicted felon, Colson founded Prison Fellowship, now the world’s largest Christian outreach to prisoners and their families. Prison Fellowship has
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 31, 2001
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A large family sat around the breakfast table one morning. As the custom, the father returned thanks, blessing God for the food. Immediately after, however, as was his bad habit, he began to grumble about hard times, the poor quality of the food he was forced to eat, the way it was cooked, and
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 2, 2001
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[Born to Lose, Citation: Norman Vincent Peale in Power of the Plus Factor, in Christianity Today.]
Once walking through the twisted little streets of Kowloon in Hong Kong, I came upon a tattoo studio.
In the window were displayed samples of the tattoos available.
On the chest or arms you could
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Evie Megginson on Oct 8, 2001
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In a concert in Chicago, Harry Lauder, Scottish singer and songwriter, sang to an overflowing audience. At the conclusion, the audience stood en masse, and applauded uproariously. After the applause subsided, the audience said in unison, “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” Showing
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Baptist
Contributed by Danny Rogers on Nov 28, 2006
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Hold up an empty glass. Ask, “Do you know how to get the air out of this glass?” We cannot suck the air out. The answer is simple. Take a pitcher of water and fill the glass. Explain: Now the air is gone. The victory in the Christian life is not
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Opperman on Jan 2, 2008
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-Let me use an illustration from physical science to give us some insight into the infilling of the HS. If you’ve ever done a speedometer check, then you are probably familiar with the formula for determining velocity or speed. When you take the distance traveled and divide it by the amount of time
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Assembly Of God
When Jane fell in love with Richard, she knew had found her prince. At six feet three inches, Richard, 195 pounds was as lean and muscular at age twenty-three as they had been when Jane admired him on the basket ball court in high school. Ruggedly handsome, Richard was the strong silent type, which
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Adventist
Contributed by Fran Van Hoven on Jun 29, 2007
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When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours
in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar... and the wine...:A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in
front of him.
When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 10, 2008
Publicly Sing
Praises to God
A Necessity in Corporate Worship
Corporate worship services offer Christians the opportunity to publicly sing the greatness of God, proclaim His truths and better yet, as a congregation sing unto the Lord. Colossians 3:16 says, “Let the word of Christ dwell
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 27, 2008
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TONY EVANS ON GETTING UN-STUCK
Tony Evans, a popular black preacher from down in Texas, spoke of being on an elevator in a high-rise building. He said he’d never been particularly comfortable on such elevators. There was something about riding up and down in a little box several hundred feet off
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by James Snyder on Oct 22, 2021
I don’t think I’ve learned very much during my life. I just bounce from day to day and take what comes.
The one thing I did learn as I look back is, for the most part, I didn’t do it my way.
Remember Frank Sinatra and his song, “I Did It My Way?” I would have liked to ask him, how’s that been
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Christian Missionary Alliance
Contributed by Joshua Blackmon on Mar 11, 2022
"Years ago, a wealthy businessman from London chartered a bus to carry a busload of urban children to the coast. There, the children spent a wonderful day at the ocean.
Many of the children had never left the city. Most had never seen the ocean. For one blissful day, they ran unfettered over
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Pentecostal