Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 27, 2001
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Friends are people with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with them. They ask you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. They do not want you to be better or worse. When you are with them, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
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Being a parent and a father can be an interesting and trying experience.
Someone said, “Fathers spend the first part of a child’s life urging him to talk and walk, and the rest of his childhood telling him to sit down and keep quiet.”
A son who was in college wrote home to his dad. He said, “Dear
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HOW BIG IS JESUS????????
At the end of a worship service, a little girl came up to her Pastor and asked, "How big is Jesus?" The puzzled
pastor pondered and said, "I don’t know, sweetheart. The Bible doesn’t say. He was a carpenter, so I am sure
he had big hands and strong shoulders. Maybe
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
PHILIPPIANS 1:29
"For it has been granted unto you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him."
No wound? No scar?
Yet, as the Master shall the servant be,
And piercèd are the feet that follow Me.
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Jewish novelist Chaim Potok (his novel "The Chosen" sold over 3 million copies) gave a lecture at Johns Hopkins University. He had wanted to be a writer from an early age. But when he was ready to go off to college his mother took him aside and said; “I know you want to be a writer but I
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Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Jul 29, 2011
PHILIPPI AND EBAY
How would you rate your self as a Christian on a scale from 1 to 10? Better yet how would your family and friends rate you on the same scale? People see you and I on a different perspective than we do ourselves.
For the people who have Internet, I’m sure have encountered eBay at
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 1, 2011
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MACLAREN ON FACING DEATH
The great 1800s Scottish preacher Alexander MacLaren said:
"Many of us cling to life with a desperate clutch, like some poor wretch pushed over a precipice and trying to dig his nails into the rock as he falls. Some of us cling to it because we dread what is beyond, and
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The famous and very successful football coach Bear Bryant often told reporters, "I’d croak in a month if I quit coaching." After twenty-five years as the head coach at his alma mater, Bryant announced he would be stepping down at the end of the season. On December 29, 1982, he coached his
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