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 Gregg Bitter on Jan 18, 2003
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Remember the movie, The Field of Dreams. A farmer made a baseball field in a Iowa cornfield. And one of the scenes of the movie shows cars lined up coming to the field.
Isaiah picture people from every nation streaming to the Light of Israel, which is Jesus Christ. The Lord address spiritual
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Lutheran
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 20, 2008
37 THINGS TO SAY TO YOUR SPOUSE
A healthy marriage is a safe haven where we can relax and recuperate from the tensions of everyday life. We need to hear positive things from our mate. Just as I gathered together some friends to tell me what not to say to a spouse, so they also suggested what they
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Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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Back in the 1880’s Nietzsche declared that "God is dead," and before the turn of the Twentieth Century, Shaw and Wells chimed in saying the 20th Century would mark the end of the world’s "religious phase."
Yet, today a church now meets in Russia’s Museum of Religion and Atheism-the former center
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Baptist
Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
DOING CHRISTMAS DIFFERENTLY
Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz, tells of his pastor in Portland Oregon at Imago Dei Community. He and some his friend decided they wanted to do Christmas differently. So he stood up in front of his congregation and challenged them not to go into debt that
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Methodist
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When I was up in SUNDERLAND three months ago, when I heard Suzette Hattingh speak.
She told us how she held a crusade in Yapura on the island of Irian Jaya.
And the miracles that she saw. The Indonesian army offered the use of 110 trucks to bus people to the meetings free of charge.
Thousands
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Anglican
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 4, 2001
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A Methodist pastor says to a Baptist pastor, “If I immerse somebody just up to his ankles, it that enough?” “No,” answers the Baptist. “How about up to his knees?” “Nope.” “How about up to his shoulders?” “No sir!” “You mean I’ve got to get the water over the top of his head?” “That’s
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Aug 3, 2008
This passage from the Bible says that if a person “has” Jesus in his or her life, then they have “eternal life.”
What’s eternal life? The bottom line is that it means Heaven. Forever.
And how do we get that eternal life? By having Jesus in your life. This says that if we have Jesus, we have
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Contributed by Tom Lovorn on Jun 9, 2003
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A preacher was requested by family members to visit a man in a mental institution who thought he was Jesus. When the preacher introduced himself, the man replied, "Bless you, my son." The preacher asked if he were Jesus and he replied that he was. So, the preacher excused himself and said he
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Contributed by Paul Humphrey on Mar 19, 2006
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We cannot all be heroes,
And thrill a hemisphere
With some great daring venture,
Some deed that mocks at fear;
But we can fill a life time
With kindly acts and true;
There’s always noble service
For noble hearts to do.
We cannot all be preachers,
And sway with voice and pen,
As strong winds sway
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United Methodist
Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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In forty years of involvement in his church’s visitation program, Wilt Durant had led one person to Christ. You know what they say, if only one person comes to Christ its worth all the effort, right?
When he retired in 1992, he moved to Rogers, AR and joined Immanuel Baptist Church. One Sunday,
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Contributed by Jun Tadena on Aug 25, 2006
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The Power of Multiplication
On a wall in the Museum of Natural Science in Chicago there is a checkerboard with 64 squares. In the lower lefthand corner is a grain of wheat. The display includes this question: "If you doubled the amount of wheat as you move from square to square, how much would you
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