Contributed by Jim Miller on Nov 3, 2003
                
                
                
                    In "Witness," (Harrison Ford, Kelly McGinnis). John Book is a Philadelphia policeman protecting an amish boy who has witnessed a murder by another policeman. Near the end, Book is leaving the farm, the reason the grandfather gives his daughter is that "He’s
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Dec 2, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    John Stott said about this in his book “The Cross of Christ” that “only one act of pure love, unsullied by any taint of ulterior motive, has ever been performed in the history of the world, namely the self-giving of God in Christ on the cross for undeserving sinners.  That is why,
                    
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                    Admittedly we all have trouble listening.
Maybe we are watching our favourite TV programme, and our husband or wife is talking to us about something that is important to them.  
As they talk, we may mumble, “Hmm”, “Yeah”, and “Uh Huh”.
Until they finally give
                    
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                    Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 25, 2007
                
                
                
                    Shut Up, He who guards his lips guards his soul.
A Church in Kansas City has as its slogan:
Wake up, sing up, preach up, pray up and pay up, but never give up or let up or back up or shut up
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 18, 2007
                
                
                
                    D. L. Moody preached one Sunday night in Chicago. He asked the congregation to think about the message a week and come back.  That night Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lantern and the great Chicago fire ensued.  Hundreds of people
                    
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                    Contributed by Tony Abram on Nov 16, 2007
                
                
                
                    C.H. Spurgeon once said, "Prayer pulls the rope down below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly; others give only an occasional jerk at the rope. But he who communicates with
                    
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                    Contributed by Don Jones on Dec 12, 2007
                
                
                
                    We no longer need to run from ourselves or our past.  We can look at who we are through the eyes of God and face the day with the presence and power He gives us.   One teenager remarked after receiving Christ, "I never
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
                
                
                
                    Now if you are like me, you have found reading through Leviticus and other front-end Old Testament books to be a bit tedious with all of those laws. Let me give you a big picture view of all those laws: They describe the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
                
                
                
                    : (I came across this on a website this past week). To me, it’s a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, ’Hey, can you give me a hand?’ You can say,
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on May 17, 2008
                
                
                
                    The most crippling time for the church is summer time and vacations. People are traveling and spend their tithe, or drop it in a church they are visiting. Too many come home and having been away for weeks over the summer, have no sense of obligation to “make up” the shortfall in
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 29, 2008
                
                
                
                    David Branon asks, "Have you ever locked your keys inside your car? Mailed an envelope without putting the payment check inside? Baked a recipe without adding one of the main ingredients? These are the kinds of things we all
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 24, 2008
                
                
                
                    Some Jewish rabbis write up Isaac and Jacob and Rebekah as saintly and filled with good intentions.  For example, one Rabbi writes, "…we read of Isaac’s plan to give his son Esau the material blessings, so that he could protect and support
                    
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                    Contributed by David Tack on Sep 19, 2010
                
                
                
                    Revival is the workings of God.  Faithfulness to the ordinary with expectations to the extraordinary should be considered when dealing with the astounding workings of our miraculous God.  By ordinary I mean: Bible preaching, prayer, and evangelism are fundamental necessities.  Faithfulness in these
                    
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                    Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Apr 15, 2013
                
                
                
                    SEEING BEYOND THE SHUTTERS
Jeseph Jennings, when on the verge of that glorious world to which Frances has gone, exclaimed "Beautiful! What a morning." 
His weeping wife, not seeing what he saw, said, "Shall I open the shutters to give
                    
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                    “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness . .               2 Peter 1:5-6
The Greek word for godliness is sometimes translated as piety.  Both words have
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Jean Nidetch, a 214 pound homemaker desperate to lose weight, went to the New York City Department of Health, where she was given a diet devised by Dr. Norman Jolliffe. Two months later, discouraged about the 50 plus pounds still to go, she invited six overweight friends home to share the diet and
                    
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                    Contributed by Joel Vicente on Jun 7, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    DO IT ANYWAY
While we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith (Galatians 6:10).
    People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
    ………Love them anyway.
    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior
                    
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