Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 20, 2004
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Whenever people expend themselves, they want results. If they lay down their life, they want someone’s life raised up. If they empty themselves, they want someone to be filled. They want their sufferings to bear fruit.
If this doesn’t happen, they’re tempted to give up. The refusal of the gift
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
Strong Small Churches - The bigger a church grows, the worse it becomes both in quality and in its capability to reach new people. This surprising finding comes out of a Germany -based Institute of Church Development study of churches worldwide. In churches with attendance of less than 100, 31% of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
How to Get the Most Out of Your Bible
In Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Kathleen Norris recounts the story of a South Dakota rancher and his bride who received an expensive Bible as a wedding gift from his grandfather. They wrote a thank-you note and stowed the Bible away on a closet
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
A story I recently read reminds of one other thing we can do with God’s Word. A missionary in Africa gave a Bible to a local tribesman. The man hugged it. He expressed great appreciation for the precious gift.
A few days later, the missionary saw the same man again. To his dismay, the Bible
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Contributed by Kevin Karhoff on Mar 23, 2013
MAX LUCADO: GRACE IS GOD AS A HEART SURGEON
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart – poisoned as it is with pride and pain – and replacing it with his own. Rather than telling you to change, he creates the change. Do you clean up so he can accept you? No, he
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jan 16, 2005
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During the time I was a police officer there was a dispatcher who was no more than a co-worker and casual friend to me. Near Christmas time one year, I walked into the dispatch center and she lifted a package from the table next to her and gave it to me. It was a Christmas gift, and it was
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Orthodox
Contributed by David Schaal on Sep 10, 2003
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BRING THEM TO JESUS
Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, famous evangelist, said that the New Testament records tell of forty people, each suffering from the same disease, who were healed by Jesus.
Of this number, thirty-four were either brought to Jesus by friends, or He was taken to them. In only six cases
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We will find that sometimes that there are people who have not been healed because they have not forgiven someone. A person who has not forgiven another could wind up being physically sick or sick in spirit and attitude or even both. There is the story of a young lady who had anaemia and the
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 14, 2001
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Even back then I was searching for hard evidence of God as an alternative to faith. And one day found it-on television, of all places. While randomly flipping a dial, I came across a mass healing service being conducted by Kathryn Kuhlman. I watched for a few minutes as she brought various people
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 15, 2006
The cost of travel can be expensive. We belong to almost every club and program that gets us award travel. Here is the good news. The trip to the City of God is FREE.
gIt is the gift of
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