MacDonald states, "We can be thankful that Scripture deals openly with failure. The defects of the saints are not edited out. The dark sides of people who made a difference in their generations are there for all to see: King David’s
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Violence puts the brakes on authentic development and impedes the evolution of peoples towards greater socio-economic and spiritual well-being. This applies especially to terrorism motivated by fundamentalism[69], which generates grief, destruction and death, obstructs
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Catholic
Contributed by Ken Pell on Oct 18, 2010
In the 13th century the world thought that the earth was flat. This was a commonly declared falsehood that people took as truth. It had consequences. It inhibited exploration, produced fear, etc. When some started challenging the falsehood and said the earth was
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Nazarene
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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FACT VS. FAITH
A pastor was speaking to his people on the relationship between fact and faith.
He said, "That you are sitting before me in this church--is fact. That I am standing here, speaking from this
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Brethren
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A grandmother was telling her granddaughter goodnight when the little girl said, "Mommy and Daddy are entertaining some very important people downstairs."
"You’re right," Grandma agreed, "But how did you know?"
"Just
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Peter Bines on Sep 22, 2005
John Newton wrote to a young minister advising that God leads his people through distresses, including a sense of their sinfulness. And His purpose? To: ’…preserve in you a due sense of your own unworthiness, and to convince you, that your
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Paul Newell on Dec 4, 2006
Mike Yaconelli, in his little book, Messy Spirituality writes, “Spirituality is about doing the tiny work of God, little acts, small responses to God’s presence in our lives. Every week, my church shows me
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Baptist
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 6, 2007
John Wesley provides the most convicting analysis on what it means to be a true servant: “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at
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Baptist
Contributed by John Cuddeford on Oct 18, 2002
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THE MUSE OF GOOD FRIDAY?
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
SOURCE: W.
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 24, 2008
Some say fish have a six second memory. So, when one fish gets caught on a hook, only six seconds later, all his fish friends are ready to get hooked again. People are like that. They see
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Pentecostal