Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Apr 27, 2009
SEARING OUR CONSCIENCE
My dad had a ‘76 Honda Accord. One day, the "service engine" light came on. He said, "Here, I’ll show you how we fix that," and he pushed the key into a slot right below it that reset it. The light went off, but I'm not sure that was the point of it being there in the
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on May 6, 2009
Religion of itself will only make us like the Pharisees, a contradiction of Christianity. No man can save himself. Nothing that we can offer can change a sinner to a saint! I remember seeing a carton showing a scholarly man sitting on top of a great pile of books, looking at himself in a mirror,
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Contributed by Richard Francis on May 10, 2009
Peterson observed further “The story of David is not a story of what God wants us to be, but a story of God working with the raw material of our lives as he finds us” and he also then writes “Naivety regarding sin is dangerous as we follow Jesus, but an obsession with sin is decidedly unhealthy. It
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on May 19, 2009
A family was having a lot of problems with ants. The ants were everywhere and would attack anything that looked like food. One day, some ants got into the salt shaker, but they were dead. Perhaps one ant said to the other, "Hey look, it’s sugar!" In
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on May 19, 2009
When a worker at an AT&T building in San Jose, California, took it upon herself to clean out an office refrigerator during her lunch hour Tuesday, the smell from the moldy food was so noxious that it sent 28 of her co-workers to the hospital and prompted the evacuation of all 325 people in the
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Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jun 2, 2009
The apostle’s teaching is that life for the non-Christian is a living death. He is spiritually dead […] There is no stronger term than ‘death’. How categorical he is! You cannot say anything beyond saying that a man is dead. It is not ‘almost dead’, he is actually dead; it is not desperately ‘ill’,
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by David Baeder on Jun 10, 2009
ALLURE OF LUST AND GREED
Last night they had another one of those Dateline stings. In the sting, an undercover agent poses as a 13-15 year old on the internet, in one of those on-line chat rooms. Almost every man who came to a house to meet an underage girl for immoral purposes had seen previous
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 22, 2009
NOT "WHY?" BUT "WHAT?"
I remember a particular counseling session years ago where three of us were trying to encourage a change of personality and a change of behavior in a spouse.
Dr. Jay Adams, in his book on direct, biblical counseling, said the purpose is not to find out why a person sinned,
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 3, 2009
THE DIRT IS ON THE INSIDE
A young boy asked his mother if he could help her wash the windows. She welcomed his offer and told him to begin with the one in the kitchen because it was the dirtiest. He went outside and worked diligently until he thought it was clean. Then with a dry cloth he rubbed
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 28, 2009
CONFESSION WITHOUT CHANGE
Four preachers met for a friendly gathering. During the conversation one preacher said, "Our people come to us and pour out their hearts, confess certain sins and needs. Let's do the same. Confession is good for the soul." In due time all agreed.
One confessed he liked
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 28, 2009
CONFESSION AND CONTRITION
Metro News (Ottawa). It tells how in 2008, 22 people died from eating cold cuts processed by Maple Leaf Foods. To his credit, Michael McCain, the Maple Leaf CEO, owned up to the fact that the meats were contaminated with listeria at his company's plant in North York.
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 9, 2009
*** In the lower part of South Carolina is a very poisonous snake called the coral snake. It’s venom is very potent and very deadly. However, those people who live in that area rarely die from the bite because they know a secret.... "shake it off’. You see, while the venom is very deadly, the coral
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 9, 2009
*** A mailman got a new route. On the first porch he came to he was confronted by a ferocious-looking German Shepherd poised to jump. The mailman approached the mail
box and the dog sprang straight up, 5 feet, and landed in the same place, the mailman
was relieved to see the dog keep his distance.
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Contributed by Tim Adams on Dec 1, 2009
2 Corinthians 7:1,“Let us cleanse ourselves” - that means we would do a good job if we were just as fond of straightening our own selves out as we are to find the faults of others. It is God’s Holy Spirit that will do the work but we must enter in to an active cooperation with God on this matter.
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