Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jan 3, 2011
WHO WOULD SERVE GOD WITHOUT HEAVEN?
Consider this statement from Paris Reidhead: "Lord Jesus, I’m going to obey you and love you and serve you and do what you want me to do as long as I live even if I go to hell at the end of the road because you are worthy to be loved, obeyed and served."
Do we
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Contributed by J.d. Tutell on Jan 3, 2011
MISS GAD-ABOUT
Years ago a man named Phillip Keller went from being a shepherd to a pastor, in his book on the 23rd Psalm he talks about one particular sheep that he had. Phillip took great pride in maintaining his fields, they were far greener than that of his neighbor, much better then the
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jan 3, 2011
GIVING UP THE WHOLE WORLD
Bruce Larson tells how he helped people struggling to surrender their lives to Christ:
"For many years I worked in New York City and counseled at my office any number of people who were wrestling with this yes-or-no decision. Often I would suggest they walk with me from
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 2, 2011
SOCIAL NETWORKING AND THE BRAIN
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter – Mon Dec 27, 5:03 pm ET
MONDAY, Dec. 27 (HealthDay News) -- The size of your amygdala, an almond-shaped portion of the brain involved in emotions, may be as strong a marker for having rich and varied social relationships as how
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 2, 2011
Sometimes newspaper editors state the obvious:
* 'If strike isn't settled quickly it may last a while'.
* 'War dims hope for peace'
* 'Cold wave linked to temperatures'
* 'Child's death ruins couple's holiday'
* 'Blind woman gets new kidney from dad she hasn't seen in years'
* 'Man is fatally
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Contributed by Kenton Wood on Jan 1, 2011
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CARGAR LA BATERIA
CHARGE THE BATTERIES (TRANSLATION FOLLOWS)
Tengo en mi mano un taladro inalámbrico. Es relativamente nuevo. Pero, al apretar el botón, apenas da vuelta. ¿Qué necesito hacer? Cargar la batería.
¿Conoces a personas Cristianas que sus vidas apenas dan vuelta? Claro. Hasta
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Contributed by John Perry on Jan 1, 2011
MAKE SURE THE CAPTAIN IS ON BOARD
A young naval officer was undergoing his first sea training on board a naval ship. His responsibility was to safely steer the ship away from the wharf and set it on course for a voyage out to sea. He carefully went through all the procedures of disembarking the
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Pentecostal
For some reason, we think of doubt and worry as "small" sins. But when a Christian displays unbelief...or an inability to cope with life, he is saying to the world, "My God cannot be trusted," and that kind of disrespect makes one guilty of a fundamental error, the heinous
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A WINNING FATHER
One of the most powerful stories in the history of the Olympic Games involved a canoeing specialist named Bill Havens. He was a shoe-in, I'm told, to win a gold medal in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. But a few months before the Games were held, he learned that his wife
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
"STRANGE YET SUFFICIENT" ANSWERED PRAYER
James Gilmour, a missionary to Mongolia, was once asked to treat some wounded soldiers. Although he was not a doctor, he did have some knowledge of first aid, so he felt he could not refuse the request. He dressed the wounds of two of the men, but a
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
WHAT AMERICANS BELIEVE
Even those who claim to be Born Again are not necessarily firmly grounded in the truths of the Bible. In his book which provides a statistical analysis of religious beliefs in America, George Barna cites several fascinating statistics which are based on a national survey.
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
SHARING THE CUP WITH ALL
One Sunday morning in 1865, a black man entered a fashionable church in Richmond, Virginia. When Communion was served, he walked down the aisle and knelt at the altar. A rustle of resentment swept the congregation. How dare he! After all, believers in that church used the
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
RELIGION A VS. RELIGION B
The 19th-century Danish theologian Soren Kierkegaard identified two kinds of religion--Religion A and Religion B. The first is "faith" in name only (2 Tim. 3:5). It's the practice of attending church without genuine faith in the living Lord.
Religion B, on the
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
HOLDING CONFIRMED TICKETS
Sometime when you're in an airport, observe the difference between passengers who hold confirmed tickets and those who are on standby. The ones with confirmed tickets read newspapers, chat with their friends or sleep. The ones on standby hang around the ticket
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking." - H.L. Mencken
"The paradoxical -- and tragic -- situation of man is that his
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
CHANGING AUDIENCES
We have let the world define greatness for us. Our society has built itself on the philosophy of the devil instead of on the wisdom of God. As long as we believe Satan’s big lie that our lives are insignificant unless we are on top, we will live in constant state of
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
THE PURSUIT OF JOY
Men have pursued joy in every avenue imaginable. Some have successfully found it while others have not. Perhaps it would be easier to describe where joy cannot be found:
Not in Unbelief —
Voltaire was an infidel of the most pronounced type. He wrote: “I wish I had never been
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
BE DIFFERENT
"The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is." - Charles M. Schwab
"If you do things well, do them better. Be
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