Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 16, 2011
BLESS YOU, PRISON
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a Russian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. His writings helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system.
One night while he was in prison in Siberia, his cell mate Boris Kornfeld, a Jewish doctor,
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Brethren
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 15, 2011
THE DRINKS ARE ON ME...?
In the summer of 2010 I was hanging on every word of Steve Chalke as he preached at the New Wine Summer Conference. He was talking about Jesus being the one who transforms people and transforms situations; and he was calling the Church to once again become fully involved
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Anglican
Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 15, 2011
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Some believers are ashamed to pray over their food in a café. One old preacher once said, “A dog wags his tail over his
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WHAT DID SHE SAY?
There were once two men, Pete and Joe out sailing in a boat. A fierce storm blew up. Torrents of rain splashed down. The waves were rocking them. They desperately the rigging this way and that trying to keep the boat upright.
"It's at times like this" shouted Pete above
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"IT"
Did any of you see a film that came out in the 90s - "The Adams Family". There's a creature named "it" that is a hand that runs around on its own [mime it]. St Paul tells us the church is the body of Christ. We are all parts of a body interconnected with each other. But if we try to be
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Anglican
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jan 14, 2011
DOING WHAT ONLY HE CAN DO
Setting out from Hamburg, Germany, to give a concert in London, the violinist Fritz Kreisler had an hour before his boat sailed. He wandered into a music shop, where the proprietor asked if he might look at the violin Kreisler was carrying. He then vanished and returned
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 14, 2011
"MAKE ME!"
They had behaved badly in class but they were equally disruptive in the detention room, swearing, acting tough and defying anything I said with a smart comment. Unacceptable behaviour. I have never really had a problem with anger, but the closest I came was in that classroom. Teaching
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 14, 2011
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KNOW WHERE YOU STAND
The Johnson and Johnson company once had in their mission statement that employees would “operate with honesty and integrity” Several weeks before a major incident involving Tylenol, the president of Johnson and Johnson sent a memo to all the presidents of divisions in the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Pastor Cosmos on Jan 13, 2011
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ANIMALS AND COLORS IN THE BIBLE
The Bible to teach us to interperet the Bible by using the the Bible to interperet itself
Isaiah 28:9-10 "9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10For precept
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Charismatic
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 13, 2011
MARGARET: THE HARD SOIL
Each week I give a devotion in each of the 8 dining areas of the Shalom Centre and Margaret (not her real name) is there, with ears which will not hear. Her heart is a fortress, cold, hard, defensive. The gates are huge, old and impenetrable, bolted with fear and pride that
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jan 12, 2011
“Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.” (Steve Marting,
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Erik Stadler on Jan 12, 2011
STARBUCKS SOCIETY
Sometimes people describe today as the culture of "Starbucks" or the "iPod" society? We have been taught to look at ourselves as individuals, and the preferences of the individual are more important than the group. At Starbucks you can stand behind somebody and they can rattle I
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Lutheran
Contributed by W F on Jan 10, 2011
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THE FAITH OF CECIL B. DEMILLE
Cecil B DeMille, the famous Hollywood film director was responsible for a number of famous movies with Biblical themes such as:
The King of Kings
The Sign of the Cross
The Crusades
Samson and Delilah
The Ten Commandments
DeMille was once asked what his finest
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GOD ANOINTS MEN OF PRAYER
E. M. Bounds says in his classic book, The Power of Prayer:
"Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men...What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 9, 2011
THE QUEEN
Duke of Lancaster, Lord of Mann, Duke of Normandy, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Garter (a dress shop?), Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Sovereign of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Sovereign of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint
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Anglican