Contributed by Troy Borst on May 30, 2001
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ILLUSTRATION… Discipleship Journal, 11-12/92
A recent survey of Discipleship Journal readers ranked areas of greatest spiritual challenge to them:
1. Materialism
2. Pride
3. Self-centeredness
4. Laziness
5. (Tie) Anger/Bitterness
5. (Tie) Sexual lust
6. Envy
7. Gluttony
8. Lying
Survey respondents
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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Kind of like the little kid who was told this same story in his Sunday morning Bible class. After church on way home mom asks him what they talked about in Bible class, little boy tells her that they talked about the creation story and how God had taken a rib from mans side and made a wife for
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 3, 2005
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D.W.I.!
(06.07.05--Family--Eph. 6:1-4)
The American family under assault! Did you know that one out of three children in the United States are growing up without a father present in the home or that last year in a number of major U.S. cities more children were born out of wedlock than within?
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Denomination:
Lutheran
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Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago. He wasn’t famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for filling Chicago with everything evil. How did he keep himself out of jail? That is where his lawyer came into play. Big Al’s lawyer was nicknamed “Easy Eddie.” He was excellent at
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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 Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2013
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HOW TO FIND YOUR MOM IN A SUPERMARKET
I read a story about a six-year-old boy who was separated from his mother in a supermarket. So he frantically called, "Martha! Martha! Martha!" That was his mother's name and she came running to him quickly.
"But, honey," she admonished, "you shouldn't call
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Victor Frankl was a survivor of the holocaust. His famous book is called "Man's Search for Meaning."
The reader they ask me why I did not try to escape what was in store for me after Hitler had occupied Austria. Let me answer by recalling the following story.
Shortly before
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Wayne Solomon on May 7, 2021
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Your mother is a real Diva.
In the kitchen she is no Betty Crocker or Aunt Jemima
But she is your mother
And she’s a real Diva.
Just remember Rachel Ray still can't make chitlins.
And Emeril can't make collard greens.
But your mother can, she's a real Diva.
She can take you to the
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Church Of God
The reader may ask me why I did not try to escape what was in store for me after Hitler had occupied Austria. Let me answer the question by recalling the following story.
Shortly before the United States entered WWII, I received an invitation to come to the American consulate in Vienna to pick up
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 1, 2008
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PERSPECTIVES
It is because of some of the unique properties of water, a substance that makes up 75% of the earth and even makes up a large portion of your body, that life is even possible.
Because ice floats, the oceans and rivers and lakes can continue to keep all of the living things in the
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No more convincing evidence of the absence of parental affection exists than that compiled by Rene Spitz. In a South American orphanage, Spitz observed and recorded what happened to 97 children who were deprived of emotional and physical contact with others. Because of a lack of funds, there was
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Sep 1, 2023
Forty hours of toiling hard
Can make a tiresome week;
But the work has to be done,
Though old bodies grow so weak.
Now, I’ve heard Pop often say,
“Be glad when this work day’s through,
I just can’t wait to clock out,
Go home and rest with Mom and you.
Son, it’s been a long hard day,
I’m worn
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Denomination:
Baptist
At some point we stopped worrying about whether we were sinful or whether it was possible to be righteous and instead sought to avoid being unhealthy and to be healthy... we stopped naming our children “Charity” or “Grace” and began
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2010
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THE ABSENCE OF A LOVING FATHER
Dr. Paul Vitz, Professor of Psychology at New York University, studied the lives of more than a dozen of the world's most influential atheists over the last four centuries. As a result, Vitz discovered they all had one thing in common: defective relationships with
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2010
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MY DADDY IS HERE!
David Elkind, a psychologist, tells the story of visiting his middle son's nursery school class, at the request of his teacher. She wanted him to observe a "problem child" in the class.
While he was there, he caught a conversation between his son and some other boys. There
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