Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 6, 2004
How can one not acknowledge the God who created the vastness of space and all of its marvelous wonders? Space is so vast that astronomers “…had to devise special units to keep their figures manageable. Their basic unit of distance is the light-year—the distance light travels in 1 year, or about
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Jun 6, 2002
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Listen - God says, don’t buy into the myth of more - thinking that having more (of something or someone) will make you happy.... Don’t buy into the myth of thinking that you are just one purchase, one buck, one promotion, one relationship, one accomplishment, one good time or one gut busting
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
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PRAYER DOESN'T CHANGE GOD, IT CHANGES ME
In a scene from Shadowlands, a film based on the life of C.S. Lewis, Lewis has returned to Oxford from London, where he has just been married to Joy Gresham, an American woman, in a private Episcopal ceremony performed at her hospital bedside. She is dying
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 18, 2002
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I am a skeptic about everything, including God and athiesm. I am not certain about issues of cosmology. Sometimes I believe that our universe is the result of random forces. Other times I believe that there must be some purpose or ordering force, though I do not begin to understand what or who it
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Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Aug 23, 2002
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Old John was a man of God and loved his village chapel. One day he was stopped by an acquaintance, who, by the way, was an ardent angler. "I say, John," said the angler, "I have often wondered what attraction there is up at the village chapel. You go week after week to the same old chapel, see the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 29, 2002
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To introduce God to our specific jobs, we need to think deeply about questions like these:
• What does it mean to both be a Christian and hold this job?
• How would I do my job differently if I were not a Christian?
• What biblical principles most apply to my daily responsibilities?
• How should
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Contributed by James Botts on Aug 29, 2002
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The Bible says that we can miss God’s mark of perfection with our thoughts, words, or deeds. In commission (what we’ve done wrong) and omission (what we ought to have done right). Imagine if you’ve only sinned 10, no 5, no just 3x per day in though, word and deed (commission and/or omission).
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Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Sep 25, 2002
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A poem - “You see God” (From twentieth Century Christian) You see God it is like this: We could attend church more faithfully if your day came at some other time. You have chosen a day that comes at the end of a hard week, and we’re all tired out. No only that, but it’s the day following
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Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Sep 26, 2002
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Erma Bombeck wrote this essay entitled, When God Created Women. “By the time the Lord made mothers, he was into his sixth day of working overtime. An Angel appeared and said "Why are you spending so much time on this one?" And the Lord answered and said, "Have you seen the spec sheet on her? She
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Nov 5, 2004
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Checkout this quote from; Your God Is Too Safe, about studying the word of God,
“Curious times, these. There is simultaneously a glut of the word of God and a famine of it, a drought and deluge. We have every translation of the Bible you can imagine – the NIV, the NEVG, the KJV, the NJKV, the
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Contributed by Shane Rodriguez on Nov 11, 2004
How different God’s pardon is from ours! So often we forgive as did the aunt of the little girl who had been good a whole week and asked some favor. "i know that you have been good all this week" said the aunt, "but you know you were bad last week." In a passionate burst of feeling the little one
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 14, 2004
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“Grace means that God is on our side and thus we are victors regardless of how well we have
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Ortberg states it this way, “God doesn’t just love you because he has to, he loves you because he wants to. God delights in you. Of course, that doesn’t mean God delights in everything you do. Your own mother doesn’t do that, if she’s at all healthy. But the fact that you
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 27, 2005
Nobody is exempt. David, a man after God’s own heart, succumbed to temptation after reveling in his success.
Build the right hedges of protection around you. (Refer to excerpt from "Hedges" by Jerry Jenkins)
"One of the major causes of marital breakups in the Christian community is the lack of
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DO WE HAVE THE TENDENCY TO OFFER GOD SMALL THINGS?
Sometimes we offer to God but a very little. Crumbs, scraps.
It has been calculated that in a typical 70 year life span:
Sleep ---- 23 years ----32%
Work ---- 16 years ---- 22%
TV ------ 8 years ------ 11%
Eating --- 6 years ---- 8%
Travel --- 6
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