Contributed by Jay Winters on Jan 10, 2008
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Almost every culture has a New Year’s celebration. The ancient Romans celebrated the new year with the birth of Janus, the two faced god who could look back into the past and forward into the future. They exchanged gifts, not because they were overjoyed with each other, but as a method of bribery
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 21, 2008
Colorado Rockies (USA Today article 6-1-2006)
By the time the sun rose Dec. 4, 2004, Rockies management had vowed the direction of the organization would change. Pitcher Denny Neagle had been charged with soliciting a prostitute, another embarrassment for a franchise that had not been competitive
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 5, 2008
"Stephen Kuusisto grew up feeling a stigma about being legally blind. For him, sight consisted of a kaleidoscope of shapes, colors, and shadows. Privately he would press his face close to the page of a book and memorize street names in an exhausting attempt to appear more able to see than he really
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Contributed by Mike Cleveland on Aug 17, 2008
In John 6:40 Jesus says, “For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
But wait a minute, there is something within every person that prevents us from looking to Jesus. It is the belief that we’re
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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INFALLIBLE AND INERRANT
For practical purposes the words infallible and inerrant are interchangeable. When we apply them to the Bible, what we are saying is that only those who accept as from God all that Scripture proves to tell us, promise us, or require of us, can ever fully please him. Both
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Contributed by Michael Walther on Jun 20, 2011
DARWIN KISSED AND CRIED OVER EVOLUTION
Shortly after Charles Darwin and his wife Emma were married, Emma wrote Charles a letter. In her letter Emma warned Darwin about believing things that can’t be proved and of recognizing the limitations of our minds... That there are things "which if true are
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 30, 2010
THE SECOND COMING IN THE BIBLE
Biblical prophecy provides some of the greatest encouragement and hope available to us today. Just as the Old Testament is saturated with prophecies concerning Christ’s first advent, so both testaments are filled with references to the second coming of Christ. One
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 13, 2008
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From George Foremans book -God is my corner
“Ultimately your belief in God will meet resistance, which forces you to either shut up or speak up.”
After giving his testimony at Robert Schuller’s church, the Crystal Cathedral, he panicked when he discovered it would be broadcast nationwide.
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Wesleyan
The History of WWJD
Wikipedia encyclopedia states this about the common abbreviation WWJD: The phrase "What would Jesus do?" (often abbreviated to WWJD) became popular in the United States in the 1890s and again in 1990s as a personal motto for thousands of Christians who used the phrase as a
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 5, 2025
[187]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – MY FINAL DESTINATION
What is your final destination? “Well,” say some, “death is the end of it all. There is nothing after death. Evolution placed us here and will see our end recycled.”
Those who deny an eternal spirit in man just ignore the bible’s message –
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Contributed by Glenn Durham on Sep 30, 2008
John Flavel: "How dangerous it is to join anything of our own to the righteousness of Christ, in pursuit of justification before God! Jesus Christ will never endure this; it reflects upon His work dishonorably. He will be all, or none, in our justification…. Christ is no half-Savior. It is a hard
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Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 16, 2009
John Piper put it this way:
God intends for the afflictions of Christ to be presented to the world through the afflictions of his people. God really means for the body of Christ, the church, to experience some of the suffering he experienced so that when
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Contributed by John Beehler on Apr 16, 2003
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On one occasion Michelangelo turned to his fellow artists and said with frustration in his voice, "Why do you keep filling gallery after gallery with endless pictures on the one theme of Christ in weakness, Christ on the cross, and most of all, Christ hanging dead?" he asked. "Why do you
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Contributed by Doyle Welborn on Apr 6, 2013
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BAPTISM: THE PEN IN THE BOOK
Baptism is an illustration of what it means to be "in Christ." Being placed into Christ when we are saved is like being placed into water, completely covered. We are not seen except through the water, as we are not seen by God except through Christ. When God the father
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