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An engineer had this note taped inside his desk drawer at his office: "This is not my life. This is my job. Christ is my life."
(Upon his tragic death in
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 18, 2011
IDENTITY CRISIS
Theorist Erik Erikson coined the term "identity crisis" and believed that it was one of the most important conflicts people face in development. According to Erikson, an identity crisis is a time of intensive analysis and exploration of different ways of looking at oneself. Those
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 27, 2008
BORN IDENTITY
Jimmy Gupton tells of when he was 93 and ready to go on home to God. For the 1000th time, he had prayed for God to take him home. His wife had been gone for seven years, and it was getting harder and harder to go through the motions of the holiday. He had a big silver Christmas tree
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 10, 2011
SEXUALITY, SELF, AND IDENTITY
Michael Foucault, in The History of Sexuality: "Sexuality is a word that now serves a purpose like the word soul did in the Middle Ages. In that period, people believed that one's soul united the various aspects of human identity and gave significance to that
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Jeremy Morford on Jul 27, 2006
In a case of mistaken identity, a Caledonia college student believed to have survived a bus crash on April 26th actually died in the accident, and a Gaylord woman presumed to be dead is in a Grand Rapids hospital being treated for head wounds.
The Taylor University student, Whitney E. Cerak, 18,
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Holiness
Contributed by John Shearhart on Jan 30, 2007
“As Christians, our identity in Christ far transcends our identity in our work. We are children of the living God, fearfully and wonderfully made and deeply loved by the Father.” (Boa 1997, 51)
Boa,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"As long as salt retains its identity, it is useless. It must penetrate to benefit, and when it does, it disappears Salt is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2006
Identity theft complaints nearly doubled in ’02 making it the FTC’s most widely reported consumer crime. (Foster
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Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 19, 2006
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We must first embrace our own old identity, as Jesus said, “if any man will come after me, let him deny himself . . . “ We must embrace it and deny it, then by faith accept our spiritual identity in Jesus Christ. The analogy is given, for purposes of illustrating, of a fifteen year old, unmarried
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 2, 2006
Identity Theft: About 3.3 million American consumers had their personal information stolen and used to open fraudulent bank, credit card or utility accounts, or to commit other crimes, according to the FTC. These cases collectively cost businesses $32.9 billion and consumers $3.8 billion. On
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"We think in youth that our bodies are identical with ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidently yoked with us, and who are, as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age,
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There was a merchant who had identical twin sons. The boys worked for their father in the department store he owned and, when he died, they took over the store. Everything went well until the day a dollar bill disappeared. One of the brothers had left the bill on the cash register and walked
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Adventist
Contributed by Dale Miller on May 24, 2010
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N 2000, I UPROOTED ANNE AND THE THREE CHILDREN, AND MOVED THEM FROM THE ONLY HOME THEY HAD EVER REALLY KNOWN, TO THE FROZEN NORTH. CAMERON WAS 8, AMSY 11, AND DEREK WAS 16. BEFORE WE MOVED, I TOOK DEREK ASIDE AND HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH HIM. I TOLD HIM; THE PEOPLE UP THERE DON’T KNOW YOU
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Joe Fornear on Oct 27, 2004
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Now there have been truly scientific studies done of Identical twins which have identical genes. If homosexuality was a biological condition produced inescapably by genes then if one identical twin is homosexual, in 100% of the cases his or her twin should be as well. Using a sample of 14,000
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by David Ward on Sep 12, 2019
Dennis Kinlaw, former Asbury Seminary professor and Asbury College president, tells a story about growing up in rural Lumberton, North Carolina, during the depression. It was Dennis’ job, as a young boy, to rub salt into the meat his father brought home from hunting. He would rub salt into the meat
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Baptist