Contributed by Vernon Murray on Mar 11, 2004
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Some time back, my father-in-law told me of an experience he had in the wilderness of West Virginia. He was strolling through a field when he heard the joyous chirping of a robin. He enjoyed its melodious praise for a while before his eyes caught sight of the bird. It was perched high in a wild
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The following true story is from the life of Louis XIV of France: One Sunday when he and his royal party arrived at church, no one was there except Archbishop Fenelon, the court preacher. Surprised to see all the vacant seats, the King inquired, "Where is everybody?" Why isn’t anyone else present
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Contributed by Steve Miller on Jan 4, 2005
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SACRIFICIAL LOVE:
(Poem by Ruth Bell Graham)
Had I been Joseph’s mother
I’d have prayed
protection from his brothers
"God, keep him safe.
He is so young,
so different from
the others."
Mercifully,
she never knew
there would be slavery
and prison too.
Had I been Moses’ mother
I’d have
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Feb 3, 2005
"I am trying to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said
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Sexual Addiction is from the dark side and those who struggle with it need deliverance. This is only possible by surrendering your life over to the Lord Jesus Christ – Lets look at the symptoms of a sex addict:
1. Sexual acting out despite serious consequences and repeated attempts at
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Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Sep 8, 2005
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Gordon MacDonald shared about a time when he and his daughter, Kristy attended the New Year’s Eve celebration at the InterVarsity Urban Missionary Convention in 1976. The night closed with a Communion Service. After the benediction, 17,000 students began to head for the arena portals and their
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Feb 26, 2006
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ILLUSTRATION: After World War II, a group of German students volunteered to help rebuild an English cathedral that had been severely damaged by German bombs. As work progressed, they became concerned about a large statue of Jesus, whose arms were outstretched and beneath which was the inscription:
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Contributed by David Parks on Sep 18, 2006
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Priorities: Are You Going Too Fast?
A number of years ago, a Navy jet fighter plain shot itself down over the deserts of Nevada while testing a new cannon mounted on its wing. The plane was flying at supersonic speeds but the cannon shells were subsonic. What hap¬pened was critical. The fighter
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Contributed by Nathan Parker on Mar 10, 2007
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Life Examples: Abraham: The Man of Endurance (Gen. 21:1-3)
Call Abraham not only a man of faith (Gal. 3:9), but a man of endurance.
The starting gun sounded when God promised Abraham a son in his old age, and Abraham "believed in the LORD" (Gen. 15:5-6). Buy a year came and went, and no child
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Contributed by Nathan Parker on Mar 10, 2007
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Life Examples: Hosea: A Longing for Intimacy (Hos 11:8-9)
Without questioning God, Hosea obeyed Him and took the prostitute Gomer to be his wife. Though she wandered and repeatedly slipped into unfaithfulness, Hosea obeyed the Lord and did not cast her way.
The moving poetry of Hosea reveals the
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Contributed by Jim Kane on May 17, 2007
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However, Gordon MacDonald has provided a very clear set of descriptors in understanding what it means to fully follow the Lord.
(10A) The first descriptor is spectator. MacDonald notes that there many spectators around Jesus because they were curious about what He had to say and offer. They were
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A farmer went into his banker and announced that he had bad news and good news. "First, the bad news...""Well," said the farmer, "I can’t make my mortgage payments. And that crop loan I’ve taken out for the past 10 years -- I can’t pay that off, either. Not only that, I won’t be able to pay you the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Author Zig Ziglar writes:
The longest 24 hours of my life were those after my daughter’s death. When making the funeral arrangements with her husband and his parents, I had to listen to a salesman who was an incessant talker and who told us 30 times he wasn’t a salesman. Twice while we were making
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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In the Russian Orthodox Church. the standard greeting is: "Christ is Risen!" to which someone would reply: "He is risen indeed!" Years ago, when the Communists began to take control of Russia, a Communist party official came to a village to try and convert its residents there to Communism. He
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