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Willing to Give More People who derive at least half of their wealth from entrepreneurial ventures would give more money away if they knew that charities spent less on administrative costs and more on helping their clients. They are also more likely than other wealthy donors to give additional sums
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Contributed by Gene Barron on Mar 1, 2001
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Isn’t it strange that princes and kings
And clowns that caper in sawdust rings
And common people like you and me
Are builders for eternity?
Each is given a bag of tools,
A shapeless mass, a book of rules;
And each must make ‘ere life is flown,
A
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Contributed by Gene Barron on Mar 1, 2001
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A few years ago, the World Press Review carried a quotation from the National Concord of Lagos, Nigeria. That paper reported that twenty-six lakes have been found beneath the Sahara desert. The American space shuttle “Columbia” determined by echoes it received that there are miles and miles of
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Contributed by Mike Richardson on May 16, 2001
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A Church called a new pastor at 60 years of age. His first sermon was 15 minutes long. Kinda short but fine for the folks. The next week he preached for 20 minutes. That was Ok, too. But the following week he preached for an hour and 45 minutes. Boy the deacons pulled him off to the side
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Seeing the value?
An artist took a paint brush and painted a picture in two colors.
He called the picture ’BLUE AND GRAY."
The artist listened to a critic that couldn’t even paint and threw the picture in a corner and it gathered dust many years.
One day someone saw the picture and offered to buy
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 23, 2003
When a speck of dust blow into an eye, instinctively the eye is rubbed with a finger.
There is no debate with the finger about whether to help the eye.
Later, after pulling down the lid, causing the eye to water, the speck is washed out.
In a short time the eye is back to normal.
But
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jun 6, 2003
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Vacationing in Arizona, a group of British tourists spots a cowboy by the side of the road, with his ear to the ground.
"What’s going on?" they asked.
"Two horses, one gray-one chestnut, are pulling a wagon carrying 2 men,” the cowboy says.
"One man is wearing a red shirt and the other a black
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Aug 5, 2003
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"No local congregation will be what it should be, what Jesus prayed that it would be, what the Holy Spirit gifted it and empowered it to be,
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Sep 1, 2003
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"Some would tend to think that they aren't important, but without them the church is going to fail in its ministry and mission. And without them, those who try to exercise gifts of leadership and teaching and the like are destined to frustration and futility. These
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Contributed by Jeff Simms on Aug 11, 2004
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Rick Warren has said in his book “Purpose Driven Life” that there are 2 main problems when thinking about spiritual gifts. One is called “gift-envy”. This means that we compares our abilities and gifts to others. In doing that, we might feel tempted to feel jealous of others or feel dissatisfied
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Contributed by Richard Burkey on Jun 7, 2005
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J. I. Packer wrote, “The church is not to be like a bus, where passengers sit quietly and let someone else do the driving, but
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 29, 2005
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Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. I once read a news story about a lawsuit in Tennessee. It seems that an evangelist was being sued for $1 million by a woman who claimed the evangelist-healer tried to punch a demon out of her stomach. The punch knocked the lady over onto another woman whose
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 29, 2005
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We are living in a time in which millions of people are exploring alternatives to traditional Western Medicine. An “holistic health explosion,” it has been called. We realize, of course, that traditional Western Medicine is very valuable and, for most of us, when we get sick, it is the first place
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Contributed by David Thompson on Jul 30, 2005
Those of you who have sat close to me know that I can’t carry a tune, my tones are off. It makes my mind wander and probably yours too, if you sit very close to me.
I have to remind myself that it’s not the sound that comes from my lips, it’s
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