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There was a farmer who had three sons: Ron, Don and Little John. All had their names on the church roll, but none ever attended church or had time for God. Then one day Don was bitten by a rattlesnake. The doctor was called and did all he could to help Don, but the outlook for his recovery was very
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on May 20, 2002
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Title: God Moves in a Mysterious Way
The hymn God Moves in a Mysterious Way has been a source of great comfort and blessing to many of God’s people since William Cowper wrote it in the 18th century. Yet few people know of the unusual circumstances that led to its composition.
William
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Contributed by Joel Pankow on Jun 3, 2004
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True peace with God comes to us when God says to us, “you are one ugly person. I can’t stand to look at you. Your breath stinks, you’re out of shape, and you aren’t worthy of me. Here, take this outfit of righteousness - put it on. Keep it on. Take these works of my Son. Take this holiness
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A.W. Tozer writes in the Pursuit of God: “If God is present at every point in space, if we cannot go where he is not, cannot even conceive of a place where He is not, why then has not that Presence become the one universally celebrated fact of the world? The patriarch Jacob, “in the waste howling
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Contributed by Chris Jordan on Jan 5, 2008
QUOTE: “If God has spoken, listen! If God has recorded his words in a Book, search its pages with a believing heart. If you do not accept it as God’s inspired word, I cannot invite you to pay any particular attention to it; but if you regard it as the Book of God, I charge you, as I shall meet
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Contributed by Greg Warren on Apr 19, 2001
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LETTERS TO GOD FROM CHILDREN
Dear God, Did you mean for the giraffe too look like that or was it an accident? - Norma
Dear God, Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don’t you just keep the ones you have now? - Jane
Dear God, Who draws the lines around the
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 7, 2009
CONFESSION: SIN HURTS GOD
If you’re part of a big family, you probably remember those times when a little nephew would come up and slug his older uncles. The nephew’s mother probably chided him, but I can almost hear the uncle say, "No! That’s all right. The kid’s got to flex his muscles once in a
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 15, 2009
1938 God Moves In Mysterious Ways
At age 32, William Cowper passed through a great crisis in his life. He tried to end his life by taking laudanum. Then he hired a horse-drawn cabbie, ordering the driver to take him to the Thames, intending to throw himself from the bridge. It was one of London’s
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Contributed by Bob Gillchrest on Dec 29, 2008
Surprise is a metaphor for God's response to all Earth's heartache. God sprung a surprise on the whole world that first Christmas morning. The Jews wanted a big, burly, handsome, Messiah ready to gather an army and defeat
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Contributed by Paul Clemente on Nov 14, 2022
Genesis 8:1-18 Devotional
v1: Can God forget things? Why or why not? – God IS Omniscient (all knowing), otherwise, He would not be God!
The Hebrew word for “remember" is zakar = to remember, to recall, bring to mind!
v1-3: How did God stop the flooding? – stopped rain from the sky, closed
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Mar 13, 2010
DOES GOD HAVE THE SAY?
WE HAVE JUST MOVED TO SYDNEY NSW from the Whitsundays in Queensland, Australia. I didn't come seeking a better position, certainly not better scenery or more money. We don't even have our own house to live in at present. When we moved, we moved because we knew that God was
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Our faith in the God of Creation is NOT blind or without reason. As Believers we don’t need to fear looking at the evidence around us. Allan Rex Sandage is the leading Observation Cosmologist in the world by pretty much all accounts. He spent his career quantifying the expanse of the universe,
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