Contributed by Mark Brunner on Apr 11, 2005
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“Secret of the Fifth Man!” Mark 2:1-5 Key verse(s) 3:“Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.”
Five people passed the beggar but only one stopped to help. The will it seems to get somewhere on time, a preoccupation with self, easily thwarted a fragile affection that
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 2, 2005
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THE PUSHCART OF HEALING
A tribe called Karbis lives In a remote village called Rongphar in Assam, India. It is a forest area and less connected with the modern facilities of the nearby city, Guwahati. When people in that village fall sick, they carry them on a pushcart to the nearby clinic which
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2009
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RADICAL SOLUTIONS
A pastor was walking along a river one day, when he came across some boys who were fishing. But this was no ordinary way of fishing, because to the surprise of the onlooker, they were casting a tire into the water. The result? They were hauling the fish in by the bucketload! As
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Leslie Parrot has this to say about friendship from the book Relationships:
Friends make the ordinary-running errands or eating lunch, for example-extraordinarily fun. And good friends ease our pain and lighten our heavy load….Not only are friends good for the soul but for the body as well.
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Frank Gallagher on Oct 17, 2000
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When the now-famous poet Elizabeth Barrett became the wife of Robert Browning, her parents disowned her because they disapproved of the marriage. Their daughter Elizabeth, however, wrote almost every week, telling them that she loved them and longed for a reconciliation. After 10 years, she
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 28, 2000
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JACKIE ROBINSON was the first African American to play baseball in the major leagues. Breaking baseball’s color barrier, he faced hostile crowds in every stadium. While playing one day in his home stadium of Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, he committed an error. The fans began to jeer him. He stood
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Richard White on Jan 2, 2002
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LIKE FILTHY RAGS
Jeff Bridges says, "Christians can never in themselves
merit salvation through their personal holiness."
Our Righteousness is like a filthy rag before a holy
God. One of the early church fathers
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Sep 7, 2004
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During an especially trying time in the work of the China Inland Mission, Hudson Taylor wrote to his wife, “We have twenty-five cents—and all the promises of God!
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Baptist
Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jul 28, 2007
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I can remember my cousin Jenny as a joyful, delighted-with-life little girl who wasn’t like the rest of us, but could make the grumpiest of grumps smile because her love of life and underlying happiness was so infectious.
The message here is that all of us have opportunity to give sacrificially to
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Now ... Salespeople especially understand what it means to ... Strike while the iron is Hot
I was reading an article written by Pat Zaby, .... a nationally known Real Estate speaker.
He stated, ... One weekend, I told a friend that I was thinking of buying a convertible....
So, ... the first
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Anglican