Contributed by Mark Haines on Mar 21, 2011
"When we sin, we are judged because in that moment of choosing sin we are actually electing the absence of God in our lives at that point. You see, [sin and salvation are] always relational. Sin separates us from God--that’s the point--sin is our embrace of the absence of God in our
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Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Jul 25, 2012
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ERASED
When we lived in Poland, I walked through one of the cemeteries in one of the cities. And as I was looking at the stones I was surprised to see many of the smooth stones scarred with a roughness right in the middle. Later I found out that the names had been gouged out because they were
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Aug 8, 2012
Maybe you’ve heard the story of the sheep in New Zealand named Shrek. He had escaped and evaded capture and shearing for six years. When he was finally discovered in his high mountain cave by Ann Scanlan, he was almost unrecognizable as a sheep. The first thing she did was to pin back his wool so
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Contributed by Mark Hensley on Mar 28, 2002
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Among the people from Eastern Europe, the Easter basket had nothing to do with candy and rabbits. Baskets were filled with symbolic things and taken to church to be blessed. There was bread in the basket to recall how Israel relied on God in the wilderness and to symbolize life. Horseradish was
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Thoughts on America from a Treasury of Bible Illustrations: William Arthur Ward wrote these moving words: “I believe in America. “I believe it became great because of its faith in God, its hope for independence, and its love for freedom. “I am grateful for America’s glorious past; I am awed by its
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 24, 2009
Sin separates us from God and from each other. I recently read about an interesting scientific phenomenon with fluorophores. Fluorophores are molecules that glow when they are excited by the right kind of light source. They’re usually found in amino acids and proteins. (There is an illustration at:
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Nov 19, 2002
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CHECKOUT – these words from Buchanan about borderland, they are powerful and very sobering;
Most Christian I know are stuck. We feel caught in jobs we barely endure and often despise, in relationships that plunder us and deepen rather than remove our aloneness, in activities that are soul
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"God’s Grace Shown To Us"
The Enemy of the world, Satan, was on the side of life’s road with a very large cage. The man coming towards him noticed that it was crammed full of people of every kind, young, old, from every race and nation."
Where did you get these people?" the man asked. "Oh,
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Contributed by Greg Warren on Apr 19, 2001
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LETTERS TO GOD FROM CHILDREN
Dear God, Did you mean for the giraffe too look like that or was it an accident? - Norma
Dear God, Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don’t you just keep the ones you have now? - Jane
Dear God, Who draws the lines around the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 2, 2002
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Leaders Learn from Their Mistakes
In his book Managing People is Like Herding Cats, leadership guru Warren Bennis observes that "Almost invariably, great leaders have had a significant setback, crisis or failure in their lives. Many of the leaders I studied faced adversity early in their lives.
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Adapted from “Can this be Christmas?”
Can this be Christmas?
What’s all this hectic rush and fuss?
Where do all these crowds go in such a hurry?
They speed by so fast they look blurry!
They sit at the lights getting ready to take flight!
They dash into the store and then flash out the
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Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Jan 13, 2003
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THE CALL FROM SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
In Paul Harvey’s “For What It’s Worth Department” there was a story about a man named Speedy Morris.
Speedy was a basketball coach for LaSalle University. He was shaving one day when his wife called out to tell him he was wanted on the phone by Sports
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 8, 2003
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[From Apostles and Prophets: The Foundation of the Church, by C. Peter Wagner, 2000, Regal Books, Ventura California, pp. 25]
In my book Churchquake! I say:
Of all the radical changes in the New Apostolic Reformation, I regard one of them as the most radical of all.
It is so important that I have
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