God often answers prayer in a different way than we had in mind. I heard one time about a dad who heard his young son praying by his bed one night. The dad stopped at the door and heard the boy praying intensely, over and over again, “Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo.” The next day, the dad asked his son
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A pastor bought a female parrot that became quite a problem. The only thing the parrot could say was, "Come on baby, let's kiss! Come on baby, let's kiss!" She was quite carnal.
The pastor wanted a more spiritually-minded parrot, so he looked around for help.
After much
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God has already given us the answer to our question for tragedy – God lets bad stuff happen because He is good. Without the goodness of God there would not be any free choice for you and me. We would be like robots, serving God by His will alone, and not our choice. The fact that a good God, who
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Contributed by Bruce Ball on May 26, 2009
In JAMES 5:15, God promises us that a prayer offered in true faith will even make the sick person well. Let’s take that model of prayer and hold it up against the way we pray today. Most of us, being honest, pray something like this: ‘God I want you to make me well.’ And then in the back of our
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 10, 2006
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C.S. Lewis wrote, “In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell is itself a question: ‘What are you asking God to do? To wipe out past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses
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Contributed by Alan Stokes on Dec 9, 2000
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The movie Shadowlands is about C.S. Lewis’ relationship with his wife Joy. In the movie, Lewis’ colleague’s praise him and affirm that C.S. Lewis’ faithful prayers were getting God to help his wife. In response C.S. Lewis says that when he prays because he can’t help himself not to get any gain
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 6, 2001
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I read about a small Oklahoma town that had two churches and one distillery. Members of both churches complained that the distillery was giving the community a bad imagine. And to make matters worse the owner of the distillery was an out spoken atheist. He didn’t believe in God one bit. The church
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Contributed by Gary Merillat on Jun 4, 2001
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A young girl had to pass through a bad neighborhood. As she went down a dark street she noticed a shadowy figure stalking her. She was gripped with fear, but to her relief the stalker did not attack. Later, she read of another young lady who was attacked that same night in that same place. The
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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When my wife and I were at Dallas Seminary back in the early 1960s, we lived in a little apartment that was part of a small group of apartments that have since then been destroyed, I am happy to say. Hot and cold running rats--all the joys of home were there. In the summer the weather came inside,
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