Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 11, 2001
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Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there’s no immediate danger, no need to overreact. When Apollo 12 took off, the spacecraft was hit by lightning. The entire console began to glow
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 6, 2002
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For hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus, the Jews had been expecting a deliverer, a messiah, to help them to get rid of foreigners who had invaded their land. About 200 years before Jesus came, a wicked king of Syria, called Antiochus oppressed them. He had forbidden the worship of God
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Contributed by Lynn Malone on Aug 8, 2005
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A mother was putting her little four-year-old daughter to bed for the night. The child was afraid of the dark, and the mother, on this particular occasion, with her husband away, was fearful also.
When the light was out, the child caught a glimpse of the moon outside the window. “Mommy,” she
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 6, 2008
Have you ever tried to count the stars?
Itss impossible, you cannot do it.
Look into the sky on a clear night, out of the glare of streetlights, and you will see a few thousand individual stars with your naked eyes.
With even a modest amateur telescope, millions more will come into
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Baptist
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HOPE IS
Hope is faith in the immutable promise that miracles prevail when the darkness tries to win-out with cries of despair. Hope is a gift from God that helps us yearn, and live a life that believes and moves with the pledge of a better tomorrow. And what’s more, hope springs-forth
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Lutheran
Contributed by John Quigley on Mar 1, 2005
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E. M. Bounds writes in "The Possibilities of Prayer" : "THE ministry of prayer has been the peculiar distinction of all of God’s saints. This has been the secret of their power. The energy and the soul of their work has been the closet. The need of help outside of man being so great, man’s natural
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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There is a story about a man who had to cross a wide river on the ice. He was afraid it might be too thin, so he began to crawl on his hand and knees in great terror. He thought he might fall through at any moment. Just as he neared the opposite shore, all exhausted, another man glided past him
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 23, 2009
‘Pagans’ leaves us with some fascinating possibilities. We must be careful not to read too much into it but touching down on the options opens our eyes to a different way of understanding ‘pagan’ language. Douglas Harper shows how in classical literature a pagan was a word used to refer to the
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 7, 2010
Bound by Tradition
Warren Wiersbe tells us, “Over the years I have seen churches . . . flounder and almost destroy themselves in futile attempts to embalm the past and escape the future. Their theme song was, ‘As it was in the beginning, so shall it ever be, world without end, Amen.’ Often I’ve
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 8, 2011
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A HIJACKING PARABLE
Think of the human race aboard a hijacked jet-liner flying through time. God himself directed its takeoff from the divine control-tower. The initiator of all evil, whom we call the Devil, Managed to get a boarding pass.
When the plane reached its cruising altitude, the Devil
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Brethren
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I am…
BLESSED when I come in and BLESSED when I go out (Deut 28:6)
SAFE wherever I go (Psa 91:11)
REDEEMED from the hand of the enemy (Psa 107:2)
The SALT of the earth (Matt 5:13)
The LIGHT of the world (Matt 5:14)
VALUABLE! (Matt 10:31)
Exercising my AUTHORITY over the enemy (Luke 10:19)
VALUABLE
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Baptist
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One Sunday, a monk was invited to speak about the ‘love of God.’ He waited until it is dark and proceeded in the altar with a lighted candle. He first illumined the crown of thorns then the two hands that are nailed after that he continued to light the spear wound in the side and lastly he put the
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Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jul 20, 2003
ILLUS.: We moved back to Pittsburgh, my home, in 1973 at the height of a petroleum crisis. All unnecessary lighting was turned off to conserve energy. Everyone thought we would have a drab Christmas that year. However, the Old World custom of the luminary was revived and it turned into one of the
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Whitemarsh states, “The founding fathers envisioned the growth of a mighty nation under God. Governor William Bradford expressed their hope”…As one small candle may light a thousand so the light here kindled hath shown unto man, yea in some sort to our whole
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 14, 2008
We are not meant to live in darkness. We were created to live in the light—in God’s light. I worked with a young lady several years ago whose boyfriend surrendered to the darkness. He blew his brains out with a shotgun just as she entered their bedroom. It was devastating. I knew the guy.
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 17, 2006
We should not be frustrated by mysteries; we should delight in them. We don’t have to figure everything out. In an essay titled “Meditation in a Toolshed,” C. S. Lewis describes an experience he had inside a dark toolshed. The sun was brilliantly shining outside, but inside the shed only a
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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I heard a scientist explaining the mystery of "black holes" in the universe. They are stars which have collapsed and so do not emit light but nevertheless are a powerful force although not visible. The scientist likened it to a dance floor, with the ladies in white dresses and the men all in
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