Contributed by C Vincent on Feb 13, 2009
John Ortberg in The Life You’ve Always Wanted speaks about Mable. She was in a state-run convalescent home, a place where people were left to die.
Mable lived 25yrs in a home. She was strapped into a wheelchair; half her face was eaten away with cancer, she was blind and almost deaf; she drooled
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Contributed by Doug Dayton on Feb 14, 2009
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THE ROSES THAT DO NOT BLOOM
In the most beautiful of gardens, even those tended by the most skillful of botanists, there is an occasional rose that buds, but never opens. In all respects the rose is like all the others, but something keeps it from blooming. It fades away - or disappears -
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Contributed by Robert Drake on Feb 21, 2009
ASHAMED OF MYSELF
A young man got up to give his testimony for Christ at a tent meeting. He was not very accustomed to speaking in public, and he stumbled over his words quite a bit. An atheist in the back of the crowd yelled, "You should be ashamed of yourself, standing up there and
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Feb 23, 2009
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STANDING OUT
I remember an experience as a 16-year-old, Salvation Army soldier. I was walking to the church from my house for Bible study. In those days, soldiers wore uniforms to every church function. On route to the church, there were 12 or 15 peers hanging outside the pool hall that I had to
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HOW YOU FINISH
James was excited as he turned the two hundred mark heading towards home. Two and three-quarter laps had gone and he was still in the lead. His one and only goal was to win this race and he was full of confidence that he could do it. His thoughts race ahead to the podium, the
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 9, 2009
You remember the Gatorade commercial with Michael Jordan and the tagline, "Be like Mike." Well, our goal as Christians should be to "be like Jesus." 1 John 2:5-6 puts it this way, "This is how we know
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 12, 2009
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YOUR FACE GIVES IT AWAY
There's a story of three prospectors who found a rich vein of gold in California during the gold rush days. They realized what a great discovery they had, and they decided, "We’ve a really good thing going here, as long as no one else finds out about it." So they each took
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Contributed by Bill Burress on Oct 23, 2009
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We know what a person is by their uniform. We can tell a policemen, or a chef, or a nurse by the way they are dressed. The Bible says when we accept Christ we put on Christ. We should put on Christ just
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 26, 2009
LIMITS. Write that down. Who do we need to accurately assess ourselves? Someone else.
Regular assessment is important because our limits regular vacillate. They change according to what is on our plate and our overall well-being. They depend on the season.
There are times in our lives in which we
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