Contributed by Donn Heinrich on Apr 9, 2002
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Jonathan Edwards’ wife, Sarah Edwards, wrote to her daughter Esther shortly after his death. Her response to her loss was:
“What shall I say? A holy and good God has covered us with a dark cloud. O that we may kiss the rod, and lay our hands on our mouths! The Lord has done it. He has made me
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Contributed by Donald Stevens on Sep 30, 2004
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- Wesley taught about Prevenient Grace, Justifying Grace, and Sanctifying Grace.
- And even if we know about those forms of grace that Wesley emphasized,
- I think that we still have a hard time understanding what grace really is.
- I once heard it explained this way.
- Suppose that someone
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Methodist
Contributed by Stephen Wright on Jan 9, 2005
A man sat down to supper with his family, saying grace, thanking God for the food, for the hands which prepared it, and for the source of all life. But during the meal he complained about the freshness of the bread, the bitterness of the coffee and the sharpness of the cheese.
His young daughter
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Mar 19, 2003
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[Long-Winded Driving]
A pastor and his wife were driving to visit Grandma and Grandpa for Christmas.
Their daughter asked the inevitable question, “Are we almost there?”
The father said, “No, we are still 150 miles away.”
She asked, “Well, how long is that?”
“Well, honey, it’s about three more
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Contributed by Gary Huckaby on Jun 30, 2003
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Often when we sin, and get caught in the act by the Lord, and He ask us what we are doing, we reply, "Nothing!" "I wasn’t doing anything."
It is kinda like the time that I caught my oldest daughter (she was about 3 or 4 years old) eating jelly out of the Jelly jar. "Nikki, are you eating out of
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Baptist
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Philip Yancey writes in his book, Prayer, that
“… Keeping company with God also includes expressing the times of trial and frustration. In Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye keeps up a running dialogue with God, giving credit for the good things but also lamenting all that goes wrong.
In one scene he
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Mark Bauer on Aug 1, 2007
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Be rich toward God.
Grandparents are often accused of spoiling the grandchildren
Why?
The children see grandpa sitting on the floor
playing with his toddler grandchildren.
The son or daughter is shocked and jealous:
"Dad, I’m surprised.
You never got down on the floor and played with
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Lutheran
Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 8, 2007
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• A six-year-old boy came home with a note from his teacher in which it was suggested that he be taken out of school, as he was “too stupid to learn.” That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
• Alfred Tennyson’s grandfather gave him 10 shillings for writing a eulogy for his grandmother. Handing it to the
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Christian Church
Contributed by David Rumley on Apr 16, 2009
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: Arthur Matthews was serving as a missionary in China when the Communists took control. He spent years in house arrest with his wife and daughter, and his writings show what it’s like to embrace the plan and purposes of God in suffering.
"An escapist generation reads security,
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YOU ARE MY BEST GIFT
A daughter of a renowned preacher, who was used to gifts her loving dad used to purchase and bring for her after every overseas' trip, was once in for a major disappointment. Due to a mess-up in the airport customs, the gift was lost and her doting Dad landed home without a
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Apr 29, 2008
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THE ARREST
A police officer in a small town stopped a motorist who was speeding down Main Street. "But officer," the man began, "I can explain..."
"Just be quiet," snapped the officer. "I'm going to let you cool your heels in jail until the chief gets back."
"But, officer, I just wanted to
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Some people only thing about themselves.
Peter Loughman tells about a man he worked with. He said, I once worked with a guy who would, every year, place a call to a local florist on Christmas Eve and order two gift baskets, one for his teenage daughter and one for his wife. It was a quick call,
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Methodist
Contributed by Ryan Johnson on Mar 6, 2002
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Microsoft has formally launched the final revision of its Windows operating system for PCs. It’s called Windows "Me"—short for Windows Millennial Edition.
One feature of Windows Me that has caused a stir is its new "system restore" feature. How does it work? Suppose you suffer a system crash on
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 13, 2007
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There was one a Poet called Elizabeth Barrett a childhood accident had caused her to lead a life of invalid, she married Robert Browning in 1846…… In her youth Elizabeth had been watched over by her tyrannical father and so when she and Robert were married, their wedding was held in secret
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Baptist
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FALLEN HUMAN NATURE
The fate of the women from Judges 19 touches the most troubling question of our modern time. Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel describe the most traumatic memory of his life, a scene from the year 1945, when he and his family were sent to the concentration camp by the German
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Seventh-Day Adventist
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