When we come to talk about the character of God, we realize that we cannot say everything the bible teaches us about God’s Character at once. We need some way to decide which aspect of God’s character to discuss first, in the same since, do we line up the characteristics by important, by power, or
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Chinese character for "righteousness" is most interesting. It is composed of two separate characters one standing for a lamb, the other for me. When "lamb" is placed directly above "me," a new character "righteousness" is formed. This is a helpful picture of the grace of God. Between me, the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sidney Sumida on Oct 6, 2009
                
                
                
                    DEPENDENT ON GOD
In the past few decades, there were some huge storms that hit our nation of which  were Hurricane Pamela, and Hurricane Katrina, to name a few... (and, yes, not to bias about gender, there was big bad Hurricane Andrew, too). Here in the islands, we have had our share of storms as
                    
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                    Illustration- Character
There is a story told among the Cherokee Indians…
One evening an old Cherokee Indian told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 wolves. 
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt,
                    
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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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                    The following thoughts are from Sy Rogers:
God is event and process oriented – Most Christians are only event orientated. 
But the development of a baby is a process caused by one passionate event in the bedroom.
Birth is an event but there is a process of growth and maturity. God will not zap a
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
                
                
                
                    GOOD GUYS, BUT NOT GOD'S GUYS
It is time for the NFL draft, and NFL teams are about to spend millions of dollars on unknown commodities called college players.  Some of them pan out and many don’t. In order to narrow the risk with so much money at stake, they are now looking at the character of
                    
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                    Leader Character: Of the 13 “character clusters” evaluated by the Christian Leader Profile, the Barna Research Group has identified the strongest attributes associated with Christians involved in church leadership are having a conscience that is sensitive to sin, morality, godly demeanor, humility,
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 30, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Quote: William Hershey Davis
•	"Reputation is what you are supposed to be; 
•	Character is what you are. 
•	Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; 
•	Character is what you have when you go away. 
•	Reputation is made in a moment; 
•	Character is built in a lifetime.
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 30, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One of the characters in the movie, Toy Story, is Buzz Lightyear, a new toy to Andy’s room. Buzz is an astronaut, with a lot of neat things attached to him.
	Buzz comes into the other toys’ lives thinking that there are no other Buzz Lightyears around. He is the only one.
	Woody, a cowboy toy, and
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
                
                
                
                    REPUTATION AND CHARACTER
Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next. The circumstances amid which you live determine your reputation; the truth you believe determines your character. Reputation is what you are supposed to be; Character is what you are.
                    
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                    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 3, 2011
                
                
                
                    C.S. Lewis: "The point is not that God will refuse you admission to his eternal world if you have not got certain qualities of character; the point is that if people have not got at least the beginnings of those qualities
                    
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