Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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Watchman Nee:
"An obedient will and a harmonious will are very different. Obedience is related to actions, whereas harmony is related to character. The obedient will of a servant is seen in carrying out every order of his master.
"But the harmonious will is shown in the son who knows the father’s
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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CHOICE AS A DISCIPLINE
Your will enables you to choose. Choose wisely. He who marries the spirit of the age will soon find himself a widower.
God asks no one whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. The only choice you have as you go through life is how you will live it.
God
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Pentecostal
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CASUAL CHRISTIANS
Barna defines these folks as those who perceive their Christianity as "faith in moderation. It allows them to feel religious without having to prioritize their faith. Christianity is a low-risk, predictable proposition..., providing a faith perspective that is not demanding. A
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 28, 2009
DECISION WITHOUT DETERMINATION
Some choose and pray a prayer. This is the great heresy of the last hundred years. I made a choice when I was ten. But there is no determination. I have been convinced by the Lord that a decision without determination and effort is absolutely meaningless.
In
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Church Of God
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 3, 2009
THE DIRT RETURNS
Julie Ackerman recalls asking, "How did everything get so dirty so fast?" I grumbled as I dusted the glass tabletop. "I had the whole house clean a month ago."
"Cleaning is a way of life, not an event," my husband responded.
I know he’s right, but I hate to admit it. I want to
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Aug 14, 2009
BREAD TREE
Some might ask, 'If God intended man to live on bread, why didn’t he create a bread tree?' And the answer, in effect, is that God could have created a tree that produced crusty loaves of bread, but he prefers to offer us a grain and invite us to buy a field and plant the seed. He
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Presbyterian/Reformed
SEPARATE: STAYING IN RANKS
The word "separate" is a military term, and it means to "stay in ranks." My son Jason just graduated from an intensive 9-week school for Drill Sergeants (we Brownworths never seem to finish going to school!). He will now be responsible for training as many as 240 "raw"
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United Methodist
PUT SOMETHING IN FIRST
After we came here in US, I discovered that everybody around me were using something named "credit card" to buy things… We said, oh good, let’s go to a bank and asked them for tis wonder card… ziiip and pay for your gas, or for your church suit.
I went with one coworker, I
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 28, 2009
"It is a thing never to be forgotten that in the everyday duties of life, we make or mar a destiny, and we win or lose a crown."
William Barclay, The Gospel of
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Orthodox
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 12, 2009
RABBIS AND DISCIPLES
"Parables such as those Jesus used were extremely prevalent among ancient Jewish sages, and over 4,000 of them have survived in rabbinic literature...the rabbis of Jesus’ day spent much of their time traveling throughout the country...to communicate their teachings and
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 27, 2009
Commentator William Barclay told a story of a person chatting with a great scholar about a younger man. He said, "So and so tells me that he was one of your students."
The teacher answered, "He
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 27, 2009
Reginald Bibby (Canadian survey guru) defines discipleship as "activity that guides individuals to become spiritually mature zealots of Christ who then
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 6, 2009
FOLLOWING IN THE STEPS OF CHRIST
"Believers will never suffer for others' salvation, including their own. But they will suffer for Christ's sake, and His example is their standard for a God-honoring response. The word translated 'example' is hupogrammon, which literally means 'writing under' and
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