Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
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ILLUSTRATION: BY LIFE OR BY DEATH
John Piper, in his book, “Future Grace”, reprinted a letter by Carl Lundquist, former president of Bethel College and Seminary. In 1988, the doctors told him he had a rare form of cancer which invaded the skin over his entire body and ended his life three years
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CONSISTENT LIFE
I recently heard of four scholars who were arguing over Bible translations. One said he preferred the King James Version because of its beautiful, eloquent old English. Another said he preferred the American Standard Bible for its literalism, the way it moves the reader from
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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ETERNAL LIFE
If you are Christian, eternal life does not simply mean going to heaven for eternity. Eternal life means a never-dying spirit that has already sprung to life in you! In other words, eternal life starts NOW! Your life that lasts eternally in the next world is the same life that begins
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Nov 13, 2008
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RUNNING FOR LIFE
Recently I read a fable about a dog who loved to chase other animals. He bragged about his great running skill and said he could catch anything. Well, it wasn’t long until his boastful claims were put to the test by a certain rabbit.
With ease the little creature outran his
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Contributed by Bledar Valca on Dec 29, 2008
ONE LIFE
One single life has value and is important to God. Think of how God saved the world (or His people) through one person:
Noah found favor in the eyes of God when the whole world thought evil all the time.
God raised Joseph from the prison to save the world from famine.
God used Moses to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 5, 2009
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CHOOSING LIFE
Two paraplegics were in the news recently. One was Kenneth Wright, a high school football star and later an avid wrestler, boxer, hunter and skin diver. A broken neck sustained in a wrestling match in 1979 left him paralyzed from the chest down. He underwent therapy, and his doctors
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Dec 27, 2022
The Stage of Life
The world is as a stage,
Humans merely play their part.
They have an appointed entrance
and a time they shall depart.
In life, a person fulfills roles
in many scenes along the way,
parts set by the great Director,
who has written and produced the play.
Questions of
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Contributed by Chris Jordan on Mar 16, 2008
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ILLUSTRATION:
On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a little life-saving station. The building was primitive, and there was just one boat, but the members of the life-saving station were committed and kept a constant watch over the sea. When a ship went down, they
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A Bug's Life (Disney)
Overview -- Hopper explains to his gang that one ant may be harmless and unable to stop them, like throwing one seed at a gang member. Hundreds of ants joined together, though, could bury them as surely as hundreds of seeds do. This speech rallies his gang to crush the ants'
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