Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 6, 2012
I enjoy watching a TV show called Storage Wars. In this reality show people bid on storage units that have been abandoned after having five minutes to look at them from the doorway. I enjoy watching because many times they find some great treasures worth a lot of money buried in all the other
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 6, 2012
There are 2 ways of handling pressure:
One is illustrated by a bathysphere, the miniature submarine used to explore the ocean in places so deep that the water pressure would crush a conventional submarine like an aluminum can. Bathyspheres compensate with plate steel several inches thick, which
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 6, 2012
Happy is that Christian who cares for nothing so much as to be holy and loving like his Master, while he lives, and a companion of his Master when he
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 6, 2012
Jesus had a cup in his hand, not a sword, but that cup was His scepter. He was in complete control. --Brian Bell,
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 6, 2012
It is not Peter's faith that fails, but his courage. After his failure he weeps bitterly, because he really does love his Lord. --David
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 6, 2012
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 4, 2012
"The joy that I pursue is not the hope of getting rich with things from you. I have not come to you for your things, but for yourself. And this desire I now intensify and demonstrate by giving up things, in the hope of enjoying you more, not things. By giving to you what you do not need, and what I
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 4, 2012
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Christmas means that…
He descended that we might ascend (John 14:3)
He was born that we might be born again (John 3:3)
He became a servant that we might become sons (Galatians 4:6-7)
He was forsaken that we might not be forsaken (Matthew 28:20)
He died that we might live (John 5:24)
He came down
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 4, 2012
The shepherds didn't just talk about what they saw, but about the life-changing "good news" they heard. It was indelibly written on their hearts. Joyful worship and witness like that of the shepherds is the result of personal experience
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 4, 2012
Joseph reminds us that the call of God isn’t always easy or conventional, but it is always right – and God will give us the courage to follow if we’re willing to obey.
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 4, 2012
Mary illustrates that hungry heart that wants to understand the depth of this great salvation. --John
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
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Joanne Shetler spent years in the Philippines with the Balangao people, translating the Bible into their language and trying to tell them the good news of the Savior. But it was slow going. One day Ama, a man who had “adopted” her as his Balangao daughter, picked up an English New Testament from
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
Pilate made a choice. Rather than ask for God's grace, he asked for a bowl. Rather than invite Jesus to stay, he sent him away. Rather than hear Christ's voice, he heard the
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
A young man, after a revival service, came up to the visiting evangelist and they were getting ready to put up everything for the night. The young man had left after the invitation, under conviction, he had returned at the conclusion of the service and went up to the evangelist and he said, "Sir,
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
We are not simply to linger about the shrine of the resurrection, but are to go declaring the fact of it! Mary was changed from a mourner to a missionary when she met the
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
The Church of Christ needs servants of all kinds, and instruments of every sort; pen-knives as well as swords, axes as well as hammers, chisels as well as saws, Marthas as well as Marys, Peters as
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
A missionary in the South Sea Islands for a number of years was lying on his back in several inches of water reaching up in his boat, trying to repair the inboard motor. He had to get in that position to fix it, and it was a dirty, hot, scummy business. This doctor was lying there doing that so he
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
"Jesus Christ asks each one of us, not for obedience primarily, not for repentance, not for vows, not for conduct, but for a heart; and that being given, all the rest will
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Sep 6, 2011
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Missions is not the ultimate goal of the Church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. Worship...is the fuel and goal of missions.
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