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4351. Human Image-Bearers

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James Packer

... on the nuances of the phrase, there is general agreement that it has to do with dignity, destiny, and freedom. The assertion that man is made in God's image shows each man his true dignity and worth. As God's image-bearer, he merits infinite respect. God's claims on us must be taken with total seriousness. No human being should ever be thought of as simply a cog in a machine, or mere means to an end. The assertion points also to each man's true destiny. Our Maker so designed us that our nature finds final ...

4352. Immortality: Quality vs. Quantity

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Gary R. Habermas & J.P. Moreland

While none of the actual terms for immortality are found in the gospel teachings of Jesus, he addresses the subject in passages such as Luke 20:27-40 and John 11:25-26. Strawson claims that, for Jesus and his Jewish contemporaries, immortality was synonymous with resurrection (Jesus and the Future Life, p. 209). Murray Harris holds that, while the two terms are distinct, they are also inseparable, for the resurrection inevitably involves the acquiring of immortality. They are interdependent sides of the ...

4353. The Cattleman's Rule

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During his time as a rancher, Theodore Roosevelt and one of his cowpunchers lassoed a maverick steer, lit a fire, and prepared the branding irons. The part of the range they were on was claimed by Gregor Lang, one of Roosevelt's neighbors. According to the cattleman's rule, the steer therefore belonged to Lang. As his cowboy applied the brand, Roosevelt said, "Wait, it should be Lang's brand." "That's all right, boss," said the cowboy. "But you're putting on my brand," ...

4354. Are You Sinless?

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... better to preach Jesus, the teacher and example." Stearns replied, "If I presented Christ in that way, would you be willing to follow Him?" "I certainly would," said the stranger without hesitation. "All right then," said the preacher, "let's take the first step. He did no sin. Can you claim that for yourself?" The man looked confused and somewhat surprised. "Why, no," he said. "I acknowledge that I do sin." Stearns replied, "Then your greatest need is to have a Savior, not an example!"

4355. On the Job Training

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... of the nuclear submarine, was skeptical of business school graduates. Having interviewed some 14,000 of them over a period of years, he found them fluent in the jargon of systems analysis, financial manipulation, and quantitative management (whatever that is). But he claimed that they just don't know the score. He felt most of them had an unrealistic impression of what is involved in business and little appreciation of the importance of technical knowledge, experience, and hard work. "What it takes to do ...

4356. Paton's Plums

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Source Unknown

John G. Paton, a missionary to the South Sea Islands, often lived in danger as he worked among the hostile aborigines who had never heard the gospel. At one time three witch doctors, claiming to have the power to cause death, publicly declared their intentions to kill Paton with their sorcery before the next Sunday. To carry out their threat, they said they needed some food he had partially eaten. Paton asked for three plums. He took a bite out of each and then ...

4357. The Right Education

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Thomas Sowell

... the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between right and wrong. One of the first things our schools try to destroy is that distinction. The up-to-date way to carry on the destruction of traditional values is to claim to be solving some social problem like drugs, STDs or teen-age pregnancy. Only those few people who have the time to research what is actually being done in "drug education," "sex education" or "death education" courses know what an utter fraud these labels are ...

4358. Be Watchful of the Future

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James Enery White

... led the world in discovering better ways to manufacture the gears, hearings, and mainsprings of watches. They even led the way in waterproofing techniques and self-winding models. By 1968, the Swiss made 65 percent of all watches sold in the world and laid claim to as much as 90 percent of the profits. By 1980, however, they had laid off thousands of watch-makers and controlled less than 10 percent of the world market. Their profit domination dropped to less than 20 percent. Between 1979 and 1981, fifty ...

4359. Passing Down a Kiss

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Tim Kimmel

... with his piano teacher. In the midst of that very troubled year, however, one of the most renowned pianists of the day came to the city to perform. Emil von Sauer was not only famous because of his abilities at the piano, but he could also claim the notoriety of being the last surviving pupil of Franz Liszt. Sauer requested that young Foldes play for him. Foldes obliged the master with some of the most difficult works of Bach, Beethoven, and Schumann. When he finished, Sauer walked over to him and kissed ...

4360. Oranges In Your Pocket

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... asked by his friends, "What did you think of Dr. Meyer's sermon?" He answered, "I didn't believe a word of it." That afternoon Meyer went to speak to the steerage passengers. Many of the listeners at his morning address went along, including the agnostic, who claimed he just wanted to hear "what the babbler had to say." Before going to the service, the agnostic put two oranges in his pocket. On his way, he passed an elderly woman sitting in her deck chair fast asleep. Her hands were open. In the spirit of ...

4361. Waiting for Disaster

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... at night waiting for disaster to strike, and thus was able to move her family to an upper deck almost immediately after the ship collided with an unseen iceberg. Because of her vigilance, the family did not join the 1,500 others who died that night. After reading the shipbuilders' claims, Mrs. Hart believed and so stated "This is flying in the face of God!"

4362. Absolute Truth

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James Dobson

... evangelical Christians accepted this idea! What a telling revelation! If more than 75 percent of the followers of Christ say nothing can be known for certain, does this indicate, as it seems, that they are not convinced that Jesus existed, that He is who He claimed to be, that His Word in authentic, that God created the heavens and earth, or that eternal life awaits the believer? That's what the findings appear to mean. If there is no absolute truth, then by definition nothing can be said to be absolutely ...

4363. The Betts' Violin

Mt 13:44-46

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Brett Blair

... violin dealer. His teacher had been none other than the famous violinist, Giovanni Battista Viotti, who played a 1709 golden period Stradivari violin, so Arthur knew what he was doing. Not surprisingly, the nephew thought the violin should belong to the firm, but Arthur claimed that since he bought it with his own money, (one guinea) it was his. Arthur Betts used the violin for the rest of his career. Note: The instrument is currently in the collection of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., among ...

4364. Simple Courage to Raise a Family

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Charles Colson

... ." But the liberty Rousseau envisioned wasn't freedom from state tyranny; it was freedom from personal obligations. In his mind, the threat of tyranny came from smaller social groupings family, church, workplace, and the like. We can escape the claims made by these groups, Rousseau said, by transferring complete loyalty to the state. In his words, each citizen can become "perfectly independent of all his fellow citizens" through becoming "excessively dependent on the republic." This idea smacks so obviously ...

4365. A Date with Death

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Staff

... a lady of the court would die in eight days' time. Deciding, however, that the too-accurate prophet should be disposed of, Louis summoned the man to his courts, having first told his servants to throw the astrologer out the window when he gave the signal. "You claim to understand astrology and to know the fate of others," the king said to the man, "so tell me at once what your fate will be and how long you have to live." "I shall die just three days before Your Majesty," answered the astrologer. The shaken ...

4366. The Learning Young Mind

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Source Unknown

... student's notebook, without it going through either's minds. J. Dennis Miller, president of Church Youth Development states that a problem with educating young people in the church stems from a failure to understand how young people learn. He claims that adults learn in the following pattern: 1) acceptance of absolutes; 2) subordination of attitudes and actions to absolutes; 3) application of truth received to life experience. Knowing something as an adult is based primarily upon remembering information and ...

4367. Out of Tune

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... can miss the beauty of the world around us when we are distracted by life's trivialities. Application Option Two: When we are out of tune in our relationship with Christ, the beauty of our humanness will be drowned out by our sin, no matter how good a Christian we claim to be.

4368. Thank You for Coming

Hebrews 1:1-14

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King Duncan

... by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.” There are at least three stunning claims about Christ that the writer makes in this passage. First of all, he tells us, the babe in the manger is the fulfillment of the plan of God. The birth of Christ was no accident. Since the beginning of time God has tried to express God’s plan and ...

4369. Be Prudent or Productive?

Matthew 25:14-30

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Leonard Sweet

... principle that is described in today’s parable? When David Hume, whom some say is the most important philosopher ever to write in English, sought to express his extreme lack of admiration for British statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke, Hume claimed that Burke offered, “A great deal of flower, a great deal of leaf, not much fruit.” Bearing fruit or fruitfulness, pouring life into producing something palpable and nourishing which itself carries the seeds for another generation — that has been the ...

4370. Matthew 25:14-30

Matthew 25:14-30

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Leonard Sweet

... s own actions and attitudes that account for the amount he now receives back, not anything the servant may or may not have done. Because the master is “harsh,” because the master reaps what he did not sow and gathers what he did not plant, the servant claims he was “afraid” to do anything that might endanger the funds he had at his disposal. With his final words, “Here you have what is yours,” the servant sounds like he is relieved to be passing off some hot potato, and glad to finally have it ...

4371. In Our Sunday Best

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A Methodist church was trying to help a needy family in the neighborhood. The family claimed that they did not have clothing fit to wear to church. So the church collected enough money to buy the entire family beautiful new clothing. When they still did not show up at the little Methodist church, someone went to see them. "We thought," he said, "after we bought you ...

4372. Multi-Purpose WD-40

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... . Stops shoes from squeaking. Cures mange on pets. Frees pets and children from that sticky mouse and cockroach trap paper. According to a man in Washington State, WD-40 keeps salmon from sticking to the barbecue grill. He skins the fish before eating it, but claims that WD-40 "imparts a wonderful flavor to the meat." (He apparently hasn't heard the recommendations about using less oil in cooking.) Another man found an even more unexpected use for WD-40. He knocked a burglar out by hitting him on the head ...

4373. I Applaud Your Nerve

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The squeaky tenor had just concluded. The applause was less than warm. But one member of the audience was exclaiming, "Extraordinary! Wonderful! Unbelievable!" "Pardon me," said a puzzled man sitting in the next seat."You astound me. I think I may claim some knowledge of the subject, and I think his voice was very poor." "Voice?" said the other man. "I wasn't thinking of his voice. I was praising his nerve!"

4374. The Loophole Diet

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From an old Blondie cartoon: Blondie gives her husband, Dagwood, a book on dieting. She claims that it has the foolproof plan for changing her husband's eating habits. Dagwood reads the book and gets excited. "This is the best book on dieting that has ever been written!" he exclaims. A few minutes later, Blondie catches her husband at the kitchen table with one of his ...

4375. Are You Jesus?

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... This left the man a little bit confused. Within three or four minutes, Bandler came back, holding a measuring tape. Asking the man to hold out his arms, Bandler measured the length of his arms and his height from head to toe. After that, Bandler left. The man claiming to be Christ became a little concerned. A little while later, Bandler came back with a hammer, some large spiked nails, and a set of long boards. He began to pound them into the form of a cross. The man asked, "What are you doing?" As Bandler ...

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4351. Human Image-Bearers

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James Packer

4352. Immortality: Quality vs. Quantity

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Gary R. Habermas & J.P. Moreland

4353. The Cattleman's Rule

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4354. Are You Sinless?

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4355. On the Job Training

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4356. Paton's Plums

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Source Unknown

4357. The Right Education

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Thomas Sowell

4358. Be Watchful of the Future

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James Enery White

4359. Passing Down a Kiss

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Tim Kimmel

4360. Oranges In Your Pocket

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4361. Waiting for Disaster

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4362. Absolute Truth

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James Dobson

4363. The Betts' Violin

Mt 13:44-46

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Brett Blair

4364. Simple Courage to Raise a Family

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Charles Colson

4365. A Date with Death

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Staff

4366. The Learning Young Mind

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Source Unknown

4367. Out of Tune

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4368. Thank You for Coming

Hebrews 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

4369. Be Prudent or Productive?

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

4370. Matthew 25:14-30

Matthew 25:14-30

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

4371. In Our Sunday Best

Humor Illustration

4372. Multi-Purpose WD-40

Humor Illustration

4373. I Applaud Your Nerve

Humor Illustration

4374. The Loophole Diet

Humor Illustration

4375. Are You Jesus?

Humor Illustration

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