Contributed by Ken Pell on Sep 13, 2010
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I recently had a nursery operator inform me that keeping my young fruit trees tied up so that the wind would not “damage” them was, in actuality, damaging them! They told me that the strong winds strengthened the fibers of the tree’s trunk and limbs so that it could withstand the fury of nature.
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Nazarene
THE FREE-FOOD TREE
One year, a tree on the campus of Green Acres Elementary School, near Santa Cruz, California, bore strange fruit—mostly sandwiches, but sometimes a cookie, a cupcake, an apple or an orange.
It came into full bearing from a seed planted by teachers Sophie Farrar and Sandra Enz,
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Baptist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 3, 2009
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Kaiser Medical has a slogan called, "Thrive": They are promoting health as more than just getting by, but living well. Knowing God is not just about getting by, or even getting to heaven. There must be more! His Spirit
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 28, 2011
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OUR "IN JESUS" VOICE
I'm always intrigued by the phrase some parents and care-givers use with children: "Now children, we need to use our 'indoor' voices."
What Ephesians 4 is saying is that when in the church (not the building) we need to use our "in Jesus" voices.
Those voices need to lift up,
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
We have an extra bedroom in our house where guests can stay. Often times I have to tell my boys when there is a guest I the house, “Don’t go back there; there is someone back there. Don’t make so much noise, because we have a guest sleeping.” We try to make it easy for the guest to be at
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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ETERNAL LIFE
If you are Christian, eternal life does not simply mean going to heaven for eternity. Eternal life means a never-dying spirit that has already sprung to life in you! In other words, eternal life starts NOW! Your life that lasts eternally in the next world is the same life that begins
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Contributed by Peter Lobmiller on Apr 28, 2008
• We believe in one God-Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Creator of all things.
• We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, died, was buried, was resurrected, ascended into
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Scott Bounds on Dec 20, 2009
This body is like this glove. The hand represents the spirit. As long as the hand is in the glove, the glove can move and work. The hand is the real life inside. When we die and go to be with the Lord, we lay the glove down. The spirit, which is
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Church Of God
Let me give you another example of how God is on the move.
Haiti is a state that made a pact with the devil three hundred years. It is renown as a centre of witchcraft, voodoo and satanic worship. In 1991 Christians went to the most traditional satanic voodoo field in Haiti and were "violent in
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Anglican
Contributed by David Korsen on Dec 13, 2005
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INTRODUCTION
Let’s have a little fun together...
-I want each of you to think of a number between 1-9.
-Now multiply that number by nine.
-Add the digits of your answer together (if 35, 3 + 5 = 8).
-Now subtract five.
-Now if A=1, B=2, C=3 etc., what letter is represented by the number you have
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Holiness inspired by the word of God thus belongs in a way to the prophetic tradition, wherein the word of God sets the prophet’s very life at its service. In this sense, holiness in the Church constitutes an interpretation of Scripture which cannot be overlooked. The Holy Spirit who inspired the
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Catholic
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