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“One day a young minister was being escorted through a coal mine. At the entrance of one of the dim passageways, he spied a beautiful white flower growing out of the black earth. ‘How can it blossom in such purity and radiance in this dirty mine?’ the preached asked. ‘Throw some coal dust on it
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Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 19, 2009
John MacArthur: "Godly, Biblical church growth results from every member of the body fully using his spiritual gift, in submission to the Holy
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Contributed by Gary Kelly on Nov 16, 2011
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Unity is a heart condition of a regenerated believer that is empowered by the Holy Spirit and bears the fruit of kindness, compassion, peace-making, forgiveness, humbling
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Aug 5, 2003
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"No local congregation will be what it should be, what Jesus prayed that it would be, what the Holy Spirit gifted it and empowered it to be,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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It seems odd that certain who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 28, 2011
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OUR "IN JESUS" VOICE
I'm always intrigued by the phrase some parents and care-givers use with children: "Now children, we need to use our 'indoor' voices."
What Ephesians 4 is saying is that when in the church (not the building) we need to use our "in Jesus" voices.
Those voices need to lift up,
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Contributed by Steve Greene on Apr 12, 2007
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Remember false guilt attacks the person and the Holy Spirit attacks the problem.
A young boy was going to spend the evening at a friend¡¦s house. His father asked that he call home once he arrived so that the father could be assured that his son had arrived safely.
As the evening wore on, this
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Nazarene
Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Nov 19, 2005
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Southern Baptist Leader, Carl Bates, said, "We are so well manned and eqipted in our churches that the Holy Spirit could leave and it
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Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 14, 2011
THE SOUND AND WIND
The sound and wind symbolize the awesome power the Holy Spirit possesses! The Holy Spirit fills every believer with the same force and strength that was evidenced that day at Pentecost.
I have seen the power of the wind. I remember as a teenager in Okinawa, about once every
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Contributed by Ian Johnson on May 15, 2006
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In 1979 I was living in a town called Te Aroha in New Zealand, We had a wind storm which destroyed many homes- one gust was so strong that it wound the wind meter off the scale (over 200 MPH) no one believed their home would be damaged when they built them but that night over 50 homes were
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Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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Spiritual Health Checks
(True Devotions)
Rick Warren wrote, "The key for churches in the 21st Century will be church health, not growth." When a congregation is healthy, it will grow spiritually and enjoy the benefits of a live, vibrant relationship with Jesus Christ. A healthy Christian
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