Contributed by Richard Wafford on Oct 18, 2007
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What God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit endeavored to do in the Garden of Eden has come full circle.
It wasn’t that God made a mistake in the garden and just corrected it.
No, he brought to himself created beings who withstood the evil and temptations of this sinful world to truly
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Contributed by John Young on Nov 23, 2004
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One Sunday morning, while sitting next to her first grade daughter in church, Susan Wright noticed the little one looking at the open Bible in her lap. In a low whisper, she asked, "Did God really write that?" Susan quietly whispered back, "Yes He did." Looking down at her
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Back in the late 1940’s, in an appearance at a Hyde Park "Speaker's Corner," Catholic author and publisher Frank Sheed had described the extraordinary order and design in the universe. A persistent heckler retorted by pointing out all the world's ills, and ended shouting, "I could make a better
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 18, 2009
INTELLIGENCE ISN'T ALWAYS SMART
A French nuclear submarine and an English nuclear submarine ran into each other without knowing it this week. Clearly, having modern technology and intelligence does not mean you are smart. You would think with all the technology and intelligence in the world, our
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 11, 2009
WHAT AMERICANS BELIEVE
In the Barna Report: What Americans Believe, 1991, George Barna, the church statistician, states that there is "a great deal of ambivalence among Americans with regard to their beliefs. For instance, while 62 percent of the respondents said they have made a personal
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Keith Foskey on Apr 4, 2005
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“The Protection of the Bible”
Martin Luther made this statement: “Mighty potentates have raged against this book, and sought to destroy and uproot it – Alexander the Great and princes of Egypt and Babylon, the monarchs of Persia, of Greece and of Rome, the Emperors Julius and Augustus – But have
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 7, 2006
ILLUSTRATION: A mother sat at church next to her first grade daughter one Sunday morning and noticed her little one looking at the open Bible in her lap. After a few moments of looking intently at the Bible, she whispered to her mom, "Did God really write that?" The mother quietly whispered back,
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Donny Granberry on Oct 21, 2008
A man is in the barber shop getting a haircut. As he is leaving, the barber points out a man who is homeless, filthy, dirty, unkept and says, "Do you see that man?"
He replied, "Yes, I see him."
The barber said, "There is not a God, because if there was, he would not allow him to live so
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Contributed by Klaus Mehrl on Mar 28, 2005
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Have you ever watched the classic MGM movie Ben-Hur? The story was originally written by a civil war general – General Lew Wallace, who as boy was raised in a Christian home but as a man was indifferent to religion. He was a dreamer, a romantic, and a seeker of fame and fortune. Wallace rose
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Jun 5, 2003
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If, however, we believe that we are the product of a Creator who made us and set us free, we will conclude as William Ernest Henley in his poem, "Invictus":
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul....
It matters
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Contributed by Charles Worth on Aug 7, 2009
SUBJECTIVE TRUTHS
The following story actually happened to me in 2005 at a state wide meeting. We had a wonderful time of fellowship the first night, a time of worship and a great message. My spirit was soaring until breakfast on the second day. As I came into the hotel dining room several of my
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Contributed by Thomas Clawser on Oct 18, 2004
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In the year A.D. 303, the Roman Emperor Diocletian issued a decree that he hoped would extinguish the spreading flames of Christianity. One of his primary objectives was the seizure and destruction of the Christian Scriptures. Later that year, officials enforced the decree in North Africa.
One
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