Contributed by David Moore on May 26, 2010
GOD-FANATICS
Did you know that an online survey of 20 000 football fans revealed that 51% said they would starve themselves for a week if that would bring victory in the upcoming World Cup to their national squad. More than 40% offered to give up dating for a year, 7% said they would gladly give
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 11, 2007
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It is said that Cyrus, the founder of the Persian Empire, once had captured a prince and his family. When they came before him, the monarch asked the prisoner, “What will you give me if I release you?”
“The half of my wealth,” was his reply.
“And if I release your children?”
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Contributed by Shawn Rose on Jul 8, 2008
An evangelist accompanied a missionary on a missionary trip overseas. While there, one of the natives that had given his life to the Lord asked the evangelist, "Preacher, if the Lord gave you two houses, would you give one of them to the Lord?" "Certainly," the evangelist replied. The native
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Aug 26, 2010
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A Beautiful Prayer
“I asked God to take away my pain. God said, ‘No. It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.’
I asked God to make my handicapped child whole. God said, ‘No. His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary.’
I asked God to grant me patience. God said, ‘No. Patience
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 18, 2010
A super-salesman once sold a complicated filing system to a thriving business. Three months later the salesman paid a visit and asked, “How’s the filing system working out?” “Magnificently,” replied the manager. “Out of this world!” “How’s business?” the salesman asked. Said the manager, “We had to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A.W. Tozer said something quite insightful in terms of overall service:
Before the judgment seat of Christ my service will not be judged by how much I have done but by how much of me there is in it. No man gives at all until he has given all. No man gives anything
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Contributed by Genesis Press on May 12, 2026
The touching story of Hannah and Samuel, her love for her son. Hannah was unable to have children, and wept bitterly. She made a vow to the Lord that she would give her son to God for his service. After Hannah gave birth to Samuel, she and her husband Elkanah journeyed every year to Shiloh to give
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Contributed by Andrew Hamilton on Sep 29, 2002
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Douglas Coupland, who coined the term ’Generation X’, concludes in his book Life After God, "my secret is that I need God - that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no
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Christian Missionary Alliance
Contributed by Ken Pell on Apr 6, 2012
Mother Teresa once said, "Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ...She gives most who gives with joy. The best way to show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 4, 2012
"The joy that I pursue is not the hope of getting rich with things from you. I have not come to you for your things, but for yourself. And this desire I now intensify and demonstrate by giving up things, in the hope of enjoying you more, not things. By giving to you what you do not need, and what I
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Contributed by Eric Stefanski on Aug 3, 2003
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Those who don’t understand the food that God gives, those who don’t see how deep their need is for it, also consider the Gospel and Sacrament as ’fleeting’, and they seek some new ’rush’ in worship, desiring an emotional high, no matter how lacking in nutrition such a meal is. It’s like the
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Oct 10, 2007
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”The Christian way is different: harder, and easier. Christ says "Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 14, 2002
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David Brainerd was an American colonial missionary to the Indians who died at the age of twenty-nine. His diary reveals a young man intensely committed to God. Brainerd once said to Jonathan Edwards: “I do not go to heaven to be advanced but to give honor to God. It is no matter where I shall be
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