Contributed by Richard Wafford on Oct 18, 2007
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Perseverance reveals genuine faith. Because Christ lives in us, we can remain courageous and hopeful to the end. We are not saved by being steadfast and firm in our faith, but our courage and hope do reveal that our faith is real. Without this enduring faithfulness, we could easily be blown away by
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Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Feb 22, 2008
A Chinese farmer who had cataracts removed from his eyes at a Christian mission clinic. A few days later, the missionary doctor looked out his window and noticed this farmer holding the end of a long rope. In single file holding to the rope were several dozen blind Chinese who had
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Someone (Hugh Black) has put it this way: “At the end of life we shall not be asked how much pleasure we had in it, but how much service we gave in it; not how full it was of success, but how full it was of sacrifice; not how happy we were; not how ambition was gratified,
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Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 18, 2009
GOSSIP: SUBTLE POISON
Charles Bridges in his commentary on Proverbs explains it this way: "We may seem to make light of the tale brought to our ears, and wholly to despise it. But the subtle poison has worked. 'Suppose it should be true. Perhaps, though it may be exaggerated, there may be some
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Contributed by Greg Bond on Dec 28, 2009
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ABOUT "AMEN"
Then, of course, there is the Amen. It signifies faithful and true. Some suppose it is taken from the initial letters of adoni melech neetnem: My Lord, the Faithful King. In the Greek, it means, "So be it," or "Let it be so."
The main point is that Jesus says to end our prayer with
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
STEPS OF BIBLE STUDY
Bible study starts with Observation: What does it say? Then we move on to step 2 with Interpretation: What does it mean? Then we move on to step 3 with Correlation: How does it fit with the Bible as a whole? Finally, we end with Application: How do I use it in my life?
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 25, 2010
In 1896, H. G. Wells published a book titled The Time Machine, an imaginative tale of a scientist who builds a machine that can transport someone through time. The time traveler is preoccupied with the future, not the past. Like many scientists, he believes “progress” will enable the human race to
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Independent/Bible
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Video Illustration: Movie Pay It Forward.
Clip is from the beginning of the movie were a reporter becomes the recipient of a random act of kindness after his car is smashed at a police domestic scene. The reporter is given a new jaguar by a stranger to replace his old wrecked mustang. He responds
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Contributed by Michael Bolin on Sep 10, 2010
How many of you remember, on August the 5th, the bus crash that killed two people and injured band students on both buses? The news reported the 2 buses, with high school band students, were going to an amusement park when they slammed into a freeway wreck that happened right in front of them,
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United Methodist
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Picture a man departing from Cincinnati on his way to San Francisco, turning his car toward the east instead of the west. He realizes his mistake, but does not want to turn around; and so, in spite of regrets and resolutions and protestations that he wants to go to the Pacific coast, he one day
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 13, 2005
In The Effects of Divorce on America by Patrick F. Fagan and Robert Rector, we are told that American society may have erased the stigma that once accompanied divorce, but it can no longer ignore its massive effects. As social scientists track successive generations of American children whose
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