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  • Researchers Find That Multi-Taskers Perform ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 27, 2011
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    RESEARCHERS FIND THAT MULTI-TASKERS PERFORM POORLY So you think you can multitask? Texting while driving? No problem. Watching television and reading the Bible? No problem. Checking your email while listening to a spouse, a child, or a friend? No problem. In reality, however, according to a team ...read more

  • Positive Discipline

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Sep 29, 2011
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    POSITIVE DISCIPLINE Zig Ziglar says he looked into a mirror one day and realized he needed to lose a lot of weight. He really wanted to get in shape. As an incentive, he put a picture of a thin man on the refrigerator door. There are all kinds of gimmicks offered as motivators to dieting. You can ...read more

  • Orel Hershiser, Singer

    Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Sep 29, 2011
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    OREL HERSHISER, SINGER A number of years ago Orel Hershiser was pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers. They had just won the World Series, and Orel had been named the most valuable player of the series. One of the TV shows about the series showed him in the dugout just before the ninth inning ...read more

  • God Knows

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Oct 7, 2011
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    GOD KNOWS The receiving line at the memorial was very long as Jim and Steph had many family members that came from Texas and Georgia. Halfway through the line, I was introduced to Jim's sister, brother and nephew. They said "Are you the Brad Henry that wrote the devotional about my brother?" I ...read more

  • Trying

    Contributed by Jimmy Haile on Oct 7, 2011
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    TRYING "What are you doing, son?" the storekeeper asked a little boy whose eyes were on a large basket of apples outside the storefront. "Are you trying to steal one of my ...read more

  • Prevailing Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Scott Spencer on Oct 7, 2011
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    PREVAILING PRAYER Daniel Nash and Charles Finney were great evangelists in the early 1800s. On one occasion, when meetings had begun in a particular city, a group of young men confronted Charles Finney, openly announcing that they were going to break up the meetings. Finney and Nash decided this ...read more

  • Gluttony Pants

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011
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    GLUTTONY PANTS Chef Chris Cosentino, Food Network star and executive chef at Incanto restaurant in San Francisco, has created the Gluttony Pants for those of us who occasionally indulge and engorge without the post-meal awkwardness. The pants have three buttons, allowing you to expand the pants' ...read more

  • Knowing The Sound Of His Voice  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011
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    KNOWING THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE Brian Brown tells the story of being at the community pool with his family. Kids were screaming, playing, and splashing in the pool, music was playing, the lifeguard whistles were blowing and in the midst of the conversation, his wife shooshes him. He said, "What are ...read more

  • No Forgiveness Over Dinner

    Contributed by Eugene Morell on Oct 13, 2011
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    NO FORGIVENESS OVER DINNER In "What’s so Amazing About Grace," Philip Yancey tells a story about a man and wife who one night had an argument about how supper was to be cooked. The argument was so heated that they slept in separate rooms. Neither approached the other to say "I’m sorry" or to offer ...read more

  • Last Laugh

    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 14, 2011
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    LAST LAUGH Religion in its highest form is a belief in a being greater than themselves. There are some people who would deny this: they are called "atheists" and say that God in any shape or form is neither necessary nor possible, and so couldn’t possibly exist. When the Russians sent a ...read more

  • Worship Is More Than Experience

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 17, 2011
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    WORSHIP IS MORE THAN EXPERIENCE There was a woman who went on a short term missions trip to Kenya, helping the missionaries there. Before she left, she stopped at a remote village where she attended a medical clinic. As the native women outside the clinic began to sing together, she found herself ...read more

  • We Worship What We Are Becoming

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 18, 2011
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    WE WORSHIP WHAT WE ARE BECOMING "THE GODS we worship write their names on our faces, be sure of that. And a man will worship something--have no doubt about that, either. He may think that his tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of his heart, but it will out. That which dominates will ...read more

  • Let Me Relate A Bizarre Yet True Story, Before I ...

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Oct 25, 2011
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    Let me relate a bizarre yet true story, before I get started with my main theme. Before that… those of us who don’t know about, Charlie Chaplin, let’s put up our hands? Well, not many hands would go up, for most of us know that he was a huge movie star in the silent-picture era sending many (and ...read more

  • The Old Man And The Savior

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Nov 9, 2011
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    THE OLD MAN AND THE SAVIOR Jan Weinert wrote: "The old man came into the service shortly after it started. He sat at the end of my row, with two vacant seats between us. A noticeable hearing aid was in his ear, and he held the bulletin up to within inches of his thick glasses to try to read it. As ...read more

  • Worship And The Woman At The Well

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Nov 29, 2011
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    WORSHIP AND THE WOMAN AT THE WELL The Nelson Study Bible states: "By mentioning the two different worship sites, the woman was perhaps trying to shift the conversation away from the subject of her own sins to theological questions. Or perhaps she realized that she was a sinner (v. 18), and knew ...read more

  • Take My Wife...please

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Nov 30, 2011
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    TAKE MY WIFE...PLEASE A hooded robber burst into a Texas bank and forced the tellers to load a sack full of cash. On his way out the door, a brave Texas customer grabbed the hood and pulled it off revealing the robber’s face. The robber shot the customer without a moment’s hesitation. He then ...read more

  • Praying In Agreement

    Contributed by K. Edward Skidmore on Nov 30, 2011
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    PRAYING IN AGREEMENT Our individual prayers have great power. But there is even more power when we come together as a church and pray in agreement. Now, we know that in human terms total agreement is impossible. No two people can be in complete agreement … much less a whole congregation of ...read more

  • The Circle Maker

    Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Dec 4, 2011
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    THE CIRCLE MAKER Pastor Mark Batterson wrote a book called "The Circle Maker". He tells the following. The Book of Legends, is a collection of stories from the Jewish Talmud, when I discovered the true legend of Honi the Circle Maker. It forever changed the way I pray. I pray more. I pray with ...read more

  • Know Why You Worship As You Do  PRO

    Contributed by Tim White on Dec 5, 2011
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    KNOW WHY YOU WORSHIP AS YOU DO Why would some people buy a cat and tie it to the bedpost to show their reverence to God? Many years ago, a very poor holy man lived in a remote part of China. Every day before his time of meditation, in order to show his devotion, he put a dish of butter up on the ...read more

  • He Gave Everything Away

    Contributed by Johnny A. Palmer Jr. on Dec 7, 2011
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    HE GAVE EVERYTHING AWAY John Kluge was once the wealthiest man in America, he gave his 7,400 acre estate away estimated to be worth more than $45 million dollars. He is recognized for his generosity, yet ...read more