Contributed by Tony Abram on Apr 17, 2008
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The Spirit of God is always the spirit of liberty; the spirit that is not of God is the spirit of bondage, the spirit of oppression and depression. The Spirit of God convicts vividly and tensely, but He is always the Spirit of liberty. God who made the birds never made birdcages; it is men who make
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Contributed by Greg Nance on Apr 28, 2008
CHARLOTTE'S WEB: TEMPLETON THE RAT
How many of you have seen or read Charlottes Web? Remember the rat? He was a very resourceful fellow, but do you remember what he always wanted to know whenever he was asked to contribute to saving the pig? "What’s in it for me?” He didn’t care about others
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Illustration: “Turnaround”
Gordon Macdonald states, “Repentance is not basically a religious word. It comes from a culture where people were essentially nomadic and lived in a world with no maps or street signs. It’s easy to get lost walking through the desert. You become aware that the countryside
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Jesus willingly put aside His divine glory and became the lowest of humans, a poor carpenter from a backwater town in Galilee. He suffered and because he obediently suffered the death of a slave, he was crowned with glory and honor. The idea was to bring many of God’s children to the same glory,
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Catholic
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 8, 2009
When we try to figure everything out instead of trusting God, we get cynical and miss out on miracles.
"The Logical Song" by Supertramp:
"When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well they’d be singing so
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Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 13, 2018
Note: this story is told by me - Jim Butcher of Madison WV.
I want to tell you a story about an insight that God gave me into John 14:1-4, the passage where Jesus speaks of going to prepare a place for us. This is the story of something that happened to me several years ago while I was in
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2009
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DIVORCE NEGATIVELY AFFECTS CHILDREN: STATS
Children get emotionally scarred and traumatized from divorce.
Children and Divorce: A report on educating students from divorced and single-parent homes by the NEA Standing Committee on Instruction and Professional Development:
The majority of research
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REMISSION
While a graduate student at Indiana University and also serving as youth minister at the North Central church in Bloomington, I had an experience I will never forget.
I woke up early on this particular Sunday morning to get to the building in time to drive one of the church buses to
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