Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jun 10, 2009
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John Newton, the writer of Amazing Grace, said –
"What will it profit a man if he gains his cause, and silences his adversary, if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 17, 2008
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A song by Tome Wuest called Fuel says, “You are the fuel our spirits burn, the oil, the light, the flame, the fire, we are burning. You are the faith, the hope, the love, the peace, the joy, the life, the One, we are
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Church Of God
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 17, 2003
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"Most everyone knows of the newspaper comic strip called “Family Circus”. It pokes fun in a gentle way at the typical family life in a home with several very young children.
I remember one that started out with the mother giving the oldest boy, who appears to be about 6, something to take to the
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Orthodox
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2004
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PRUNING WITH A PURPOSE
I have a lilac tree in my back yard – beautiful white flowers. Well I decided it needed a little bit of pruning, so I got out some cutters and – well, the truth is I hacked it up. I didn’t really know what I was doing, but it had overgrown my clothes-line and needed to be
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A story is told of a teacher who asked a class of students, ‘What would you wish for if you had one wish?”
One enthusiastic student shouted out, “Mama, I would wish for a big house for my family and myself.”
Another student proudly stood up and said, “I would wish for lots of land, to plant an
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Adventist
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 14, 2011
"MAKE ME!"
They had behaved badly in class but they were equally disruptive in the detention room, swearing, acting tough and defying anything I said with a smart comment. Unacceptable behaviour. I have never really had a problem with anger, but the closest I came was in that classroom. Teaching
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The story is told of two brothers who grew up on a farm. One went away to college, earned a law degree, and became a partner in a prominent law firm in the state capital. The other brother stayed on the family farm.
One day the lawyer came and visited his brother, the farmer. He asked, “Why don’t
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 24, 2007
Remember to look at the possibilities in the area you see. (You see some things but don’t actually look at them.) We used the FedEx logo during our Gripped For Greatness campaign last year. We asked if you saw all you were looking at.
Between the last two letters of FedEx you can see an arrow
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Pentecostal
We don’t want to do things that make the devil glad, makes the Holy Spirit sad, or dooms our brother or sister to feeling bad. Rather, we want to make the devil run, magnify the Son, and learn
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Christian/Church Of Christ
MacDonald states, "We can be thankful that Scripture deals openly with failure. The defects of the saints are not edited out. The dark sides of people who made a difference in their generations are there for all to see: King David’s
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Don Jones on Mar 1, 2008
The missionary Adoniram Judson said, "I do not want to be like a Paul...or any mere man. I want to be like Christ...I want to follow Him only, copy His teachings, drink in His Spirit,
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Baptist
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