Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Aug 21, 2009
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ZACCHAEUS AND THE DRAGON'S DEN
Imagine Zacchaeus before The Dragons Den, (TV show where businessmen invest their millions). Imagine the corrupt entrepreneur Zack making his pitch. Duncan Bannatyne and the other dragons are not going to invest there millions into such a dubious character (rip him
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Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
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BAD TASTE
Treating each other in graceless ways is like putting salt in another person's drink. You're sitting there, your friend goes to the bathroom, and while he's gone you pour salt into his soda. And when he takes a sip he gets a terrible taste in his mouth.
God says, "Don't do this
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 30, 2009
When I first began dating Marylu, she was a waitress. Fortunately, I was brought up with good etiquette, & knew to tip 15% for good service. Now the protocol is 20%, and I try to do that, if the service is good. If not, I leave less.
This week, an interesting story broke out of
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 30, 2009
When I first began dating Marylu, she was a waitress. Fortunately, I was brought up with good etiquette, & knew to tip 15% for good service. Now the protocol is 20%, and I try to do that, if the service is good. If not, I leave less.
This week, an interesting story broke out of
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Contributed by Chris Jordan on Dec 5, 2009
FLEEING UNTO JESUS, NOT AWAY FROM HIM
(JESUS IS ANOINTED BY MARY AT BETHANY)
"I heard (this story) from a friend who works with the down-and-out in Chicago:
"A prostitute came to me in wretched straits, homeless, sick, unable to buy food for her two-year-old daughter. Through sobs and tears, she
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Contributed by Chris Jordan on Dec 12, 2009
"Because God is gracious, therefore sinful men are forgiven, converted, purified and saved. It is not because of anything in them or that ever can be in them that
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
The next plague in Exodus 9 is a severe electrical thunderstorm with hail. I remember as a kid looking out over the field near our house and seeing a brown cloud of what looked like dust billowing it’s way towards me. The sky took on a brown tinge that seemed to paint the whole atmosphere and
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Contributed by Ken Kersten on Jan 15, 2010
FROM THE BALCONY
A man lay sprawled across three entire seats in the movie theater. When the usher came by and noticed this, he whispered to the man, "Sorry, sir, but you're only allowed one seat." The man mumbled but didn't budge. The usher became impatient. "Sir, if you don't get up from there
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Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Jan 18, 2010
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LUCKY
Adrian Rogers says,
"God doesn't change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us."
He tells of the words in a paper: "Lost Dog" Small yellow dog- scarred with mange; two ears gone from
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
Quote: Church Pastor and author A. W. Tozer said:
"Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving."
Quote: The late Reformed scholar Louis Berkhof is more to the point when he says:
"Grace is the unmerited
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
It does not matter where He places me or how. That is rather for Him to consider than for me. For the easiest positions, He must give grace; and in the most difficult, His grace is sufficient. So, if God places me in great perplexity, must He not give me much guidance? In positions of great
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
ALWAYS MORE TO FOLLOW
C. H. Spurgeon had an illustration he would use to depict ‘grace’.
A large sum of money was given to a man called Rowland Hill; His job was to distribute the money to a particular Christian pastor. Thinking that the amount was too much to send all at once, Hill forwarded
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 12, 2009
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HOW GOD TREATS REPENTANT SINNERS
When Billy Graham was driving through a small southern town, he was stopped by a policeman and charged with speeding. Graham admitted his quilt, but was told by the officer that he would have to appear in court. The judge asked, "Guilty, or not guilty?" When Graham
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Contributed by Jim Mazzulla on Jul 18, 2011
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PAUL AND FREEDOM
Paul uses the word FREEDOM 28 times in the Pauline Epistles 10 times in this Epistle to the Galatians. Paul uses the word grace 100 times in his writings. Among all the other writers of the New
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 29, 2011
David Seamands, a counselor, says this:
"Many years ago I was driven to the conclusion that the two major causes of most emotional problems among Christians are these: the failure to understand, receive, and live out God’s grace and forgiveness; and the failure to give out that love,
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