Contributed by Todd Catteau on Dec 22, 2023
                
                
                
                    
Can you believe it? Another year is in the books. I don’t know about you, but as magical and wonderful this time of year is, it is exhausting. I’m tired!
And the fact is that it’s not just this time of year. I find myself getting weary and tired often. Life is like that. It can wear you down.
                    
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                    Clark Pinnock (Flame of Love, chapter 5)	“salvation is union, conversion is awakening to love… Love woos – it does not compel.  Conversion is not coerced.  God convicts and moves us towards intimacy.  His Word is powerful, but there must be a response to it.  God does not overpower but saves those
                    
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                    Contributed by Brad Bailey on Aug 3, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Jerome was a Church Father who translated the Greek manuscripts into Latin and put the Bible in the language of the people.  He purposefully lived in Bethlehem where Jesus was born.  One night while living in Bethlehem, Jerome had a dream that Jesus visited him.  The dream was so real to him that
                    
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What Those Oats Can Do
Henry Crowell, founder of the Quaker Oats Company and a significant contributor to the work of Moody Bible Institute knew how to use money wisely. As a young man, he received Christ as his Savior. When he began his business career in a little Ohio
                    
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                    Contributed by John Tung on Mar 28, 2007
                
                
                
                    “The fallacy of misplaced concreteness” is a concept developed by Alfred North Whitehead, a philosopher who specialized in mathematics.  And an example of what this says is that in a 2-dimensional world, giving the x and y axis location of a point is sufficient to precisely locate that point.  But
                    
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                    In the movie “Facing The Giants” the coach challenges one of the players to give his best effort. The young player says that he will – but the coach pushes him to promise to give it everything he’s got. The player promises that he will give his best effort. To ensure that he will "give it all he’s
                    
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                    Contributed by Aurora Alonso on Sep 14, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Have you hugged your child today? How can you hug someone if he or she is not close to you?  You need to be close up in order to give them a hug, right? Well , God wants to give us a BIG BIG Hug, but i ask you Has God Hugged You today? If not Why? Is it because you have not gotten close enough to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    L. T. Jeyachandran is executive director of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Singapore. He gives this important insight: “The image God has given us in the Trinity is an image of three co-eternal, co-equal Persons giving themselves to one another in eternal self-effacement. The glory of
                    
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                    Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on May 9, 2023
                
                
                
                    On Mother’s Day we give to moms 
A tribute they are due.
This is your special day, Mom-- 
A day we give to you.
Because today’s your day, Mom,
You truly deserve our praise -
And some recognition
On this, your Mother’s Day.
A million trillion thanks we give, 
For those you never heard.
Gazillion
                    
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                    Mike Murdock notes this from his book Leadership Secrets of Jesus page 209:
i.	He starts with scripture verse “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Galatians 6:7.
ii.	Everything begins with a seed to sow! Someone plants a small acorn. It becomes
                    
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                    Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 9, 2011
                
                
                
                    IT'S NOT THE PIANO'S FAULT
One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. 
Life is about the same. The discord is there, but so is the harmony. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 23, 2007
                
                
                
                    	Richard Wurmrand spent 14 years under communism imprisonment and torture Rumania 1945. He started a underground church bringing Russians to Christ. “A flower if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its
                    
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                    Contributed by David Schaal on May 20, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A natural example of this point can be found by looking at the two seas in the Holy Land. The Sea of Galilee freely receives and gives out water. It has an abundance of life, nurturing many different kinds of fish and plant life. The water from the Sea of Galilee is carried by way of the Jordan
                    
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