"For all of its foibles—-lousy preaching, political infighting, self-centered focus, stagnation, a gaggle of special interest groups—-the pokey local church...is still the most fertile environment for spiritual development. In fact, there can be no genuine spiritual progress without a long-term
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Presbyterian/Reformed
In all knowledge and in every act of love the human soul experiences something "over and above," which seems very much like a gift that we receive, or a height to which we are raised. The development of individuals and peoples is likewise located on a height, if we consider the spiritual dimension
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Catholic
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
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All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell is terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or
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Brethren
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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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Were all role models, either positively or negatively, no matter what station in life we occupy. Its one of the things we attain simply by being
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"You have absolute control over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 3, 2015
Survivor Eva Hart remembers the night, April 15, 1912, on which the Titanic plunged 12,000 feet to the Atlantic floor, some two hours and forty minutes after an iceberg tore a 300-foot gash in the starboard side: "I saw all the horror of its sinking, and I heard, even more dreadful, the cries of
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Contributed by Robert Leroe on Apr 3, 2013
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Pastor Mark Driscoll states: "The only thing that gets me out of bed on Monday morning is the picture in the Book of Revelation of King
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Congregational
Contributed by Michael Gibney on Aug 9, 2002
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He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey, or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful.
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
Robert Fulghum writes, “All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit
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Baptist
Contributed by Brian Mavis on May 4, 2001
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WHAT DO YOU DO ALL DAY?
One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house. His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard.
The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Glenn Hickey on Jan 25, 2008
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It had been a good day in Mosul, Iraq. Five So. Baptist workers were making progress toward a water purification project. They had met with officials and laughed with new Iraqi friends. They were headed home for a night’s rest before starting again the next morning. But they never made it
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Baptist
Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
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In an interview with C-SPAN Sykes said: ""All of us in some sense can blame
somebody else for our problems. Mommy and Daddy are a good target, but also
we all want to be loved and we would wish that everything was suited for us,
that all of our needs were taken care of. That¡¦s what it was like
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