Contributed by David Yarbrough on Jan 21, 2002
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EVERYTHING I NEED
“I have everything I need for joy!” Robert Reed said.
His hands are twisted and his feet are useless. He can’t bathe himself. He can’t feed himself. He can’t brush his teeth, comb his hair, or put on his underwear. Strips of Velcro hold his shirts together. His speech drags
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 25, 2010
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My youngest grandson had a birthday party not too long back. It was a pirate party so all his mates came dressed in pirate gear - eye-patches, head scarves, etc. At the door we presented every pirate with a plastic blow-up sword, which looked good but caused no damage at all. They wielded their
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Contributed by Bret Toman on Dec 22, 2011
HEZEKIAH'S STORY
Laos 2001. Hezekiah's life had been so transformed that he had to tell someone. When he returned to the village he grew up in, he told the 35 relatives and villagers who met him and demanded to know why he had converted to Christianity, "Jesus is the only way I can be saved from
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Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
JESUS FREAK: HEZEKIAH
Laos 2001. Hezekiah’s life had been so transformed that he had to tell someone. When he returned to the village he grew up in, he told the 35 relatives and villagers who met him and demanded to know why he had converted to Christianity, "Jesus is the only way I can be saved
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jan 13, 2008
Opportunity: Billy Graham
In his autobiography, Just as I Am, Billy Graham tells about a conversation he had with John F. Kennedy shortly after his election:
“On the way back to the Kennedy house, the president-elect stopped the car and turned to me. ‘Do you believe in the Second Coming of Jesus
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Contributed by Michael Gibney on Aug 5, 2002
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I recently heard of four scholars who were arguing over Bible translations. One said he preferred the King James Version because of its beautiful, eloquent old English. Another said he preferred the American Standard Bible for its literalism, the way it moves the reader from passage to passage with
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 29, 2007
How do some people seek guidance from God?
> Signs – like a falling star, a chance meeting between people, something in a fortune cookie…
Here’s something that I think would be good for a fortune cookie:
“Stop trying to find your fortune in a cookie and go get a job!”
> Random Bible Openings –
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Our text from Romans assures us that the Holy Scriptures bring us encouragement and hope. All our hymns we are singing today affirm the encouragement and hope we receive by being “People of One Book.” I read the daily devotional for March 14 in Kenneth W. Osbeck’s devotional guide AMAZING GRACE:
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Methodist
Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jul 2, 2023
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A missionary to the American Indians was in Los Angeles with an Indian friend who was a new Christian. As they walked down the street, they passed a man on the corner who was preaching with a Bible in his hand. The missionary knew the man represented a cult, but the Indian saw only the Bible. He
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a. Here are a series of quotes from the Founding Fathers warning us not to forsake the Bible and its teachings these quotes are form the same website above and from lectures by Peter Marshall on Restoring America: “The very men who WROTE the Constitution admit that this nation and its Judicial
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Jul 1, 2006
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“One of the basic characteristics of infancy is a lack of self-control. Not only do babies need diapers, they must be carried because they lack the necessary control and muscle coordination to sit up much less walk or run. If babies are healthy and normal, in time they will develop more and more
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Sep 27, 2006
“After a violent storm one night, a large tree, which over the years had become a stately giant, was found lying across the pathway in a park. Nothing but a splintered stump was left. Closer examination showed that is was rotten at the core because thousands of tiny insects had eaten away at its
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Contributed by Rick Boyne on Oct 9, 2012
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There was a missionary in China who rode the bus everyday with the people. She was very friendly and open with her faith and dearly loved the Chinese. Trying to obey the oppressive Chinese law, she wouldn’t pass out Bibles indiscriminately, but always give one to someone who asked her, usually
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