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  • Love For God And Ones Neighbour Constitutes The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    ‘Love for God and ones neighbour constitutes the sum of Gods requirements for the Christian. The man who loves needs no counselling. Love cements relationships between God and man and man and man. While love attracts, fear repels. When love gives, lust grabs. What love builds, hatred destroys. With ...read more

  • Dallas Willard, In His Book The Spirit Of The ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 4, 2007
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    Dallas Willard, in his book The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives, writes, “Spirituality in human beings is not an extra or ‘superior’ mode of existence. It’s not a hidden stream of separate reality, a separate life running parallel to our bodily existence. It does ...read more

  • The Unknown Is An Adventure

    Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 15, 2009
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    THE UNKNOWN IS AN ADVENTURE Stanley Jones writes, "Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life; it gives us something to sharpen our souls on. The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. If we saw all the good things ...read more

  • Truth Needs To Be Sought, Found And Expressed ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 25, 2009
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    “Truth needs to be sought, found and expressed within the “economy” of charity, but charity in its turn needs to be understood, confirmed and practiced in the light of truth. In this way, not only do we do a service to charity enlightened by truth, but we also help give credibility to truth, ...read more

  • What Makes A Good ...

    Contributed by Timothy Gardner on Nov 7, 2009
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    "What makes a good church? If all the… …Lazy folks get up …sleepy folks wake up …Discouraged folks cheer up …Gossiping folks shut up …Dishonest folks fess up …Estranged folks make up …Depressed folks look up …Disgusted folks sweeten up …Lukewarm folks fire up …Sanctified folks show ...read more

  • What Was Mary Doing When She Had Her Angelic ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 9, 2010
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    What was Mary doing when she had her angelic epiphany, the one that changed the world forever? Was she deep in meditation, as the medieval paintings suggest? Maybe not. She surely wasn’t mowing the lawn, but I like to imagine her kneading bread, chanting a psalm and listening for the divine ...read more

  • Christ Has Risen—you Better, Too!

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Jun 4, 2010
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    CHRIST HAS RISEN--YOU BETTER, TOO! I heard about a church organist who overslept one Easter morning. She said, "The service was scheduled for 6:30. At 6:31, the minister called to see if I was coming. Since I live near the church, I was at the organ by 6:45. Then, a year later on Easter morning ...read more

  • We Are Told In Scripture To Work Out Our ...

    Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jun 2, 2010
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    We are told in scripture to work out our salvation. The interesting thing about this is that when we work we need a few tools and the better the quality of the tools the easier the job usually goes and the better the results. (Here I pulled a couple of nails out of a peice of wood with a jemmy bar ...read more

  • Make Them Thirsty

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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    MAKE THEM THIRSTY The young salesman was disappointed about losing a big sale, and as he talked with his sales manager he lamented, "I guess it just proves you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink." The manager replied, "Son, take my advice: your job is not to make him drink. ...read more

  • Who Would Serve God Without Heaven?

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jan 3, 2011
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    WHO WOULD SERVE GOD WITHOUT HEAVEN? Consider this statement from Paris Reidhead: "Lord Jesus, I’m going to obey you and love you and serve you and do what you want me to do as long as I live even if I go to hell at the end of the road because you are worthy to be loved, obeyed and served." Do we ...read more

  • On Self-Control

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 14, 2011
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    ON SELF-CONTROL Daniel Akst in a secular article called, "Whose in Charge Here?" wrote: "Life in modern Western cultures is like living at a giant all-you-can-eat buffet offering more calories, credit, sex, intoxicants, and just about anything else one could take to excess than our forebears ...read more

  • Freedom "For"  PRO

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 28, 2011
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    FREEDOM "FOR" From Robert Youngs: I have on my table a violin string... it is free. I twist one end of it and it responds. It is free. But it is not free to do what a violin string is supposed to do--produce music. So I take it, fix it in my violin and tighten it until it is taut. Only then ...read more

  • The Paint Covered Its Beauty

    Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jan 24, 2012
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    THE PAINT COVERED ITS BEAUTY A few years ago when I lived in Poland we were at a local museum which had a beautiful sculpture of Mary holding Jesus. For years it stood on a street corner before the city decided to clean it up and restore it. Up to that point no one thought it was anything special ...read more

  • Spiritual Arrhythmia  PRO

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Feb 25, 2012
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    SPIRITUAL ARRHYTHMIA The primary function of the heart is to supply blood and nutrients to the body. The regular beating, or contraction, of the heart moves the blood throughout the body. Each heartbeat is controlled by electrical impulses traveling through the heart. In the normal heart these ...read more

  • Not Ready

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Apr 9, 2012
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    NOT READY After a presentation on the Evidences of God in Science four physics professors came up to Hugh Ross afterwards. Hugh asked if any of them could deny any of what had been presented. They said they could not. He then asked, "Why are you not ready to accept the conclusions?" One said ...read more

  • Known By The Likeness

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    ((Bill Morgan?)) says that On a wall near the main entrance to the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, is a portrait with the following inscription: "James Butler Bonham--no picture of him exists. This portrait is of his nephew, Major James Bonham, deceased, who greatly resembled his uncle. It is placed ...read more

  • A Degree And A Half Routing Error

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Jun 22, 2007
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    *ILLUSTRATION* On October 31, 1983, a Korean airliner departed on a flight from Anchorage, Alaska to Seoul, South Korea. Unknown to the flight crew, the flight navigation system computer contained a degree-and-a-half routing error. At the point of takeoff it was unnoticeable, but as the 747 flew ...read more

  • I Was Watching A Biography Recently About Andre ...

    Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jul 1, 2007
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    I was watching a biography recently about Andre the Giant, a professional wrestler whose glory days were lived out in the WWF (World Wrestling Federation). The biographer spoke of significant challenges that Andre faced in life, being rejected because of his enormous size. He was well over 7 feet ...read more

  • It Is Not Wrong When We Seek The Favor Of Men, ...

    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jul 26, 2007
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    It is not wrong when we seek the favor of men, however, it is most important we strife to have the favor of God in our lives. How? 1. Study the Word of God. 2. Be a doer of the Word. 3. Pray daily and be filled continually with His Holy Spirit. 4. Then you can be led of the Spirit. 5. Tell others ...read more

  • A Tree Toad Loved A She-Toad  PRO

    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 6, 2007
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     | 1,824 views

    A tree toad loved a she-toad That lived up in a tree. He was a two-toed tree toad. While three-toed toad was she. The he-toad tree toad Tried to gain the she-toad’s friendly nod For the two-toed tree toad Loved the ground the three-toed tree toad trod, The he-toad tree toad tried in vain To gain ...read more