Contributed by John Tung on Mar 28, 2007
The importance of the personal over the legal is seen in the fact that God wants us to be personally involved with our children, and not just legally fulfill our obligations to them. When our kids were younger, I remember Elizabeth telling me once before that when I am home I am home in body, but
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 13, 2009
"If, now, Christ is our brother, I should like to know what we still lack? Brethren in the flesh have common possessions, have together one father, one inheritance otherwise they would not be brethren... All that Jesus has gained on this great day of his resurrection he has not acquired for himself
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 28, 2010
THAT'S NOT FAIR
My grandson protested to his mother "IT’S NOT FAIR!" Of course he doesn’t know what "fair" is yet, but saying "It’s not fair!" somehow gives him a reaction and some leverage.
Not with God however. We may be very unfair on this earth that we rob of justice, but we can’t accuse God
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
50-SOMETHINGS FOR JESUS
At the age of 58, Tom and Elaine Samply cashed out their retirements and moved to the Czech Republic and opened a coffee shop called Common Grounds where he taught business principles to atheists. After they were there for six years, they had enough business that they
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Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
b. Last week a couple with two children and a grandmother stopped by for some assistance. They were traveling from Tennessee to Charleston, SC and I wondered how they ended up at our church. They had stopped several places and been told no or redirected somewhere else. The wife said they were at
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Wesleyan
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Norman V Peale wrote a book called, “The Power of Positive Thinking.” His manuscript was turned down by 18 different publishing companies. In his disgust he threw the manuscript in a trash can, but his wife Marquette went to get the manuscript out of the can. Rev. Peale dared her to, so she leaves
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Pentecostal
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: A few years ago I heard about a woman who called the Butterball turkey hotline. She had a turkey that had been in the freezer for a couple of years and wanted to know if it would still be okay to prepare it for their Thanksgiving Day meal. The operator told her that even though the meat
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 21, 2008
One day a dispute arose when some Grecian Jews (those Jews who lived adopting some of the culture around them while still trying to be faithful) saw that Hebraic Jewish widows seemed to be getting favorable treatment. Now we lived in this community together. Lots of variety and often diverse
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Contributed by John Herrmann on Nov 7, 2008
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Conrad Lehndorff writes in his East Prussian Diary, that the housewives still did their housework and their Easter baking and the theaters continued to show movies while the Soviet army, near but as yet undetected, launched its deadly pincers movement. “We go to work in the morning and sit in
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Lutheran
Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 15, 2009
When I first came to Geneva, I was struck by how many attractive older women there are here. I thought they must have been strikingly beautiful as young women. When we had our 40th anniversary, I got to see pictures of our lovely women. They were all attractive, still I realized that they had grown
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Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Feb 19, 2007
In 1987, I was called as a paramedic to a child hit by a car. As it turned out, it was one of my elders’ sons, Michael, who was only 5 years old. He was in critical condition with head injuries and needed to be transferred to a trauma center as soon as possible. I was still fairly new in my
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Baptist
Contributed by Doug Fannon on Mar 2, 2020
When I was the Sunday School director for the church I belonged to in New Mexico over 30 years ago, I remember asking one gentleman, an older, and supposedly a mature Christian, if he would teach a Sunday School class. I received the standard "churchy" answer I have heard time and time
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