There was a TV documentary about the food we eat. Someone decided to test the quality of food in one of America’s most famous fast-food restaurants. The 30-day plan was to eat nothing but fast food – morning, noon, and night.
Tests were done prior to the experiment and would be done after
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FIRST-CENTURY FIRE
Billy Graham, that great and uncompromising preacher, once in a Revival meeting held at Los Angeles, shared a passionate message on the Early Church, outlining what needs to be done for the Churches of modern era to become more effective. While many were moved by it, some
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Contributed by Francis Balla on Sep 24, 2012
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GET ACQUAINTED WITH HEAVEN
"The man who is about to sail for Australia or New Zealand as a settler, is naturally anxious to know something about his future home, its climate, its employments, its inhabitants, its ways, its customs. All these are subjects of deep interest to him. You are leaving
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 3, 2012
Erik Weihenmeyer has led a remarkable life. He is the first blind person to reach the summit of Mt. Everest (2001). In 2008, he climbed his seventh summit highest peak on each continent). He has written books and produced a film of some of his accomplishments entitled, “Farther Than the Eye Can
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What is the Bible?
"THIS BOOK contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners and the happiness of believers.
Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable.
Read it to be wise, believe it to be
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Harold Camping made multiple false predictions of the return of Christ. He would have been in trouble if he had lived during Old Testament times.
Among the most prolific modern predictors of end times, Harold Camping publicly predicted the end of the world as many as 12
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How do you do that? I have a perfect illustration from my favorite book next to the Bible THE JOURNEY HOME by Orthodox Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein. I’ve shared excerpts from his book with you in the past. Although it is classified as fiction, it is based on authentic events and a genuine friendship
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 12, 2005
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Charles Colson told the following story in an address at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi:
I love the illustration about a man named Jack Eckerd. A few years ago I was on the Bill Buckley television program, talking about restitution (one of my favorite subjects) and criminal
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The Bet -- Anton Chekhov
We live in a world that knows little about what’s truly valuable. People all around us are pursuing things that have no lasting value. That pursuit is ably treated by Anton Chekhov in his classic short story The Bet. This story gives us great insight into the value system
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Pentecostal
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When I was in the Navy, Sailors told each other all sorts of stories about what happened on various deployments or on liberty. They were called sea stories, and were often far from being true. In fact we used say that the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story was that a fairy tale begins
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
Dr. Clarence Macartney illustrates this point by this story
Dr. Macartney claims he had a vision were he
Saw the King seated upon His throne
On either side of the throne, I saw the great angels
Uriel, Raphael, Michael, Gabriel
Before the throne stood another angel
The angel of the Book
And by his
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