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  • I Met A Young Girl Who Was Brought Up In The ...

    Contributed by Ramon Canals on Jun 5, 2009
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    I met a young girl who was brought up in the church, had all the advantages of christian home, loving father and mother. But she wanted to experiment the world. She wanted to have more freedom than what her parents were giving her and so she came to NY and as she tried to board the subway somebody ...read more

  • A Pastor Tells The Story Of Visiting A Refugee ...

    Contributed by Rhonda Feurtado on Jun 23, 2009
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    A pastor tells the story of visiting a refugee camp at Eglin air force base in the 1970s just after the Vietnam war where he found hundreds of refugees huddled under tents. Some were learning English, some were filling out government forms, some being taught to cook. Children were playing games. In ...read more

  • Quote:

    Contributed by C Jordan on Jul 25, 2009
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    QUOTE: “Barnabas shines as one of the most mature, reliable, loveable leaders of the early church. And right here Luke shows us how Barnabas’ trusted ministry began—with a demonstrated freedom from the love of things, and a heart of love for the poor. He sold his field and gave all the proceeds to ...read more

  • The Teacher By Leslie Pinckney Hill

    Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 15, 2009
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    The Teacher by Leslie Pinckney Hill Lord, who am I to teach the way To little children day by day, So prone myself to go astray? I Teach them KNOWLEDGE, but I know How faint they flicker and how low The candles of my knowledge glow. I teach them POWER to will and do, But only now to learn ...read more

  • Justice Or Mercy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 23, 2009
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    JUSTICE OR MERCY A young lady who occasionally walked through the park after work, stopped to have her picture taken by a photographer on this particular day. She was very excited about her picture being taken. As she walked out of the park, she looked at the Polaroid picture in total amazement. ...read more

  • John Kevin Hines Is One Of A Handful Of People ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 25, 2010
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    John Kevin Hines is one of a handful of people who have survived an attempted suicide jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. He claims to have told himself that if any one of the people he rubbed shoulders with on the way to the bridge noticed he was distraught, and asked him what was wrong, he wouldn’t ...read more

  • Moreover, Benedict Tells Us What Decent Work Is. ...

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 2, 2010
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    Moreover, Benedict tells us what decent work is. It expresses the “essential dignity of every man and woman in the context of their particular society: work that is freely chosen, effectively associating workers, both men and women, with the development of their community; work that enables the ...read more

  • Need Or Greed

    Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Jun 2, 2011
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    NEED OR GREED Clovis Chappel in his book "Feminine Faces," wrote that when the Roman city of Pompeii was being excavated, the body of a woman was found mummified by the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. Her position told a tragic story. Her feet pointed toward the city gate, but her out ...read more

  • Last Laugh

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 14, 2011
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    LAST LAUGH Religion in its highest form is a belief in a being greater than themselves. There are some people who would deny this: they are called "atheists" and say that God in any shape or form is neither necessary nor possible, and so couldn’t possibly exist. When the Russians sent a ...read more

  • Johnny's One-Track Mind

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 7, 2011
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    JOHNNY'S ONE-TRACK MIND I'm like the little boy who was asked by his teacher, "Johnny what is your favorite animal?" He said, "Fried chicken!" Being a PETA supporter, she sent him to the principal's office. The next day she asked him, "Johnny, what it your favorite living animal?" He said, ...read more

  • Anger: Strength In Your Claws

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 12, 2012
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    ANGER: STRENGTH IN YOUR CLAWS The biggest lobster ever caught in Maine, a 27-pounder (12.25 kg) with claws tough enough to snap a man's arm, was released back into the ocean on Thursday after being trapped in a shrimp net last week, marine officials said. The 40-inch (one-meter) male crustacean, ...read more

  • Love Her!  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2012
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    LOVE HER! I recently heard a preacher speaking of his efforts to counsel a man who was having marital trouble. He said to the man, "The Bible says husbands love your wives." "But I do not love her anymore," he replied. "Then love her as your sister in the Lord." "But I don't think she is ...read more

  • The Door

    Contributed by Joe Bertone on Aug 27, 2012
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    THE DOOR There is a small metal door painted white in the side of a tiny mission church in Johannesburg South Africa. This door is changing lives. On it are painted the words “door of hope.” That is exactly what it is for various babies within the city. On average some forty to fifty babies were ...read more

  • Stress And Health Care

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 23, 2012
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    STRESS AND HEALTH CARE Dr. Don Colbert wrote a book called Stress Less in which he tackles the problem of stress in our society. Listen to a few observations he has made as a Medical Doctor. "Did you know that 75 to 90 percent of all visits to a primary care physician’s office are related to ...read more

  • God Pursues You  PRO

    Contributed by Lalachan Abraham on Jan 10, 2013
    based on 18 ratings
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    GOD PURSUES YOU God is constantly initiating and seeking man to come to him. Malcolm Muggeridge, socialist and philosophical author, wrote, "I had a notion that somehow, besides questing, I was being pursued." C.S. Lewis said he remembered, "...night after night, feeling whenever my mind ...read more

  • What Is Your Answer To Him?

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 27, 2015
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    At the beginning of the school year during recess I was on the playground looking for some of my friends. I couldn’t find them. I had two boys come up to me and asked, “Do you need a friend? We want to be your friends?” I said, “No.” Was I mean? No, I just didn’t know them. Through time, we ...read more

  • Sow Indiscriminately

    Contributed by I. Grant Spong on Jul 15, 2017
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    In the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13) Jesus spoke of the kingdom of heaven being like an indiscriminate sower. This contradicts theories surrounding church growth of targeting certain statistically measurable demographics. There is no such target audience in this parable. The seed of the kingdom ...read more

  • The Tug On The Kite

    Contributed by Daniel King, D. Min. on Jul 25, 2018
     | 7,447 views

    Main Idea: We cannot see God, but we know He is there because we can feel Him. Verse: “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10 NKJV). Illustration: A boy in Pakistan was flying his kite very high, so high it could not be seen. A man asked him, “How do you know your kite is up there?” The ...read more

  • Christ Emptied Himself

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 25, 2019
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     | 3,967 views

    Kenosis: “The term kenosis comes from the Greek word for the doctrine of Christ’s self-emptying in His incarnation. The kenosis was a self-renunciation, not an emptying Himself of deity nor an exchange of deity for humanity. Philippians 2:7 tells us that Jesus “emptied Himself, taking the form of a ...read more

  • Royalty Clothed In Rags

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Dec 2, 2020
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    “This is the way the Savior came into the world. He did not lay aside His deity; He laid aside His glory. There should have been more than just a few shepherds and angels to welcome Him—all of creation should have been there. Instead of collecting taxes, that fellow Caesar should have been in ...read more