Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Oct 29, 2002
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I think the lead story for the Money section of the September 23rd issue of USA Today is a great example. The long piece chronicled some of the problems facing Japanese bankers. Bad debts for that country’s banks rose 29% in the last fiscal year to $350 billion, and that may be only a partial
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 4, 2003
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I’d like to ask you a few questions as we begin our time together today… They are real easy questions to answer. OKAY – here we go.
Is every soft drink the same?
Is every french fry the same?
Is all music the same?
Is all fried chicken the same?
Is all make up the same
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Apr 20, 2003
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When I was flying back from the Middle East, the aircraft flew high over the Egyptian desert where there was nothing but yellow sand and then there came into view the River Nile. On either bank of the river there were broad bands of green vegetation. The river brought life. There was moisture
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 16, 2003
John Piper (Let the Nations Be Glad, 1993,p.12)quotes Charles Misner, a scientific specialist in general relativity theory, who expressed Albert Einstein’s skepticism
The design of the universe ... is very magnificient and shouldn’t be taken for granted. In fact, I believe that is why Einstein
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Evangelical Free
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Lord,
Thank you for this Thanksgiving Day. Thank you for all the many many blessings you bestow on us each and everyday. Thank you for the little things we over look from day to day. Lord, I pray you feed the ones today less fortunate. Draw up real close to them and let them know how very precious
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 3, 2005
A number of people think of Satan as the personification of evil. Like Uncle Sam is the personification of patriotism, the devil is the representation of all evil. Or they think that people are evil and need no one to tempt them. But if they could, just for a moment, have the curtains of this seen
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Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Dec 27, 2005
‘Every year at Christmas, James Baxter watches people rip apart his company’s product and throw it away. All the hours of creative design and careful manufacturing are gone in a flash. And he has no regrets. As president of the nation’s largest maker of Christmas gift-wrap, Mr Baxter says, “What
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Contributed by Manuel Amparo on May 10, 2006
I was reading a few days ago of a young man who, in applying for a position, handed to his prospective employer a recommendation from a minister. The business man handed back the recommendation with the question, “Haven’t you something from some one who knows you on week days?”
Too many look
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Seventh-Day Adventist
In this case they are not only withholding their tithe – they are withholding their INVESTMENT in themselves and God’s people. They are choosing to remain a “fruitless, wild vine” or a “lone-wolf Christian”. Undisciplined and re-writing the Bible to fit their situation – they go from place to
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 8, 2007
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Quote from Generation Me by Jean Twenge- Young people have learned these self-lessons very well. In a letter to her fans in 2004, Britney Spears, 23, listed her priorities as "Myself, my husband, Kevin, and starting a family." We don’t have to hear that twice to get the point. We take it for
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The Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, in announcing the death of Princess Alice on 14th December 1878 to the House of Commons, told this touching story.
“The little daughter of the Princess was seriously ill with diphtheria.
And so the doctors told the princess not to kiss her because
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Anglican
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 7, 2009
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GO BEYOND THE CROSS
Every year, thousands of people climb a mountain in the Italian Alps, passing the "stations of the cross" to stand at an outdoor crucifix. One tourist noticed a little trail that led beyond the cross. He fought through the rough thicket and, to his surprise, came upon another
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Apr 19, 2009
TOURNIER ON FAITHFULNESS
Faithfulness means that we admit our sin whenever we are tempted to depend upon something other than God. In this admission, the first step toward authentic repentance, something marvelous takes place. As Swiss psychologist Paul Tournier once shared, "The sense of guilt is
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on May 20, 2009
DAD, ARE YOU GOD?
One day after church, the pastor asked his little boy what he learned in Sunday school. The lad said, "I learned that God loves me more than anything else in the whole world."
"What else did you learn?" asked his dad. "I learned that when I’m bad, He spanks real hard."
"What
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Dec 17, 2009
In the 1988 film Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman’s character is based on a real-life autistic man named Kim Peek. Peek has total recall of more than 9,000 books. When he attended a performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, he stood up near the end and loudly ordered, “You’ve got to stop it, stop it,
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