Contributed by Amanda Wilson on May 6, 2004
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Faith says the post-modern person, comes in a variety of different wrappings but inside each is the same gift. So everyone should be free to enjoy his or her own expression of the same cosmic truth. God is a god of variety not uniformity so faith need not require that there be a single way to God.
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
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Andrew Murray was going through a personal trial. One morning while he was eating breakfast, his hostess told him there was a woman downstairs that was going through a great trial and wanted to know if he had any advice for her. Murray handed her a piece of paper he had been writing on and said,
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Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Feb 25, 2009
Radio personality Paul Harvey tells the story of how an Eskimo kills a wolf. The account is grisly, yet it offers fresh insight into the consuming, self-destructive nature of sin. "First, the Eskimo coats his knife blade with animal blood and allows it to freeze. Then he adds another layer of
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Contributed by James O. Davis on Oct 30, 2003
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Some time ago, in Los Angeles, there was a person called the “Human Fly.” This man could literally climb the sides of department store buildings and slide along the walls without help from any outside force. He was a master. That’s why they called him the “Human Fly.”
One Friday afternoon, a
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 10, 2010
Radio personality Paul Harvey tells the story of how an Eskimo kills a wolf. The account is grisly, yet it offers fresh insight into the consuming, self-destructive nature of sin.
“First, the Eskimo coats his knife blade with animal blood and allows it to freeze. Then he adds another layer of
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Baptist
Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Jan 19, 2010
Now to a Jewish person, any time the word “sacrifice” was used, they would’ve immediately thought about the lambs that were sacrificed at the temple. Those sheep were raised up, they were fed, taken care of and protected, for the sole purpose of the sacrifice on the alter of God. That’s what a
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Contributed by Jerry Pawloski on Mar 9, 2005
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The hero is a person who has the desire to go after the goal and want to win it. They realize that he may not be able to do everything that the rest of their friends are doing but it is worth it for the crown. They realize that they must get in the race and not just be a spectator. They also know
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One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is
isolation. If we look closely at other kinds of poverty, including
material forms, we see that they are born from isolation, from not being
loved or from difficulties in being able to love. Poverty is often
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 26, 2004
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Grieving Person: It is so depressing being out of work so long, sometimes I wonder if life is worth living. Not that I’m planning on committing suicide or anything, but this really gets me down.
Right Response: I don’t blame you for feeling the way you do. It is bad, and I would probably have
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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New Barna Research has discovered that a person’s lifelong behaviors and views are generally developed when they are young – usually prior to reaching teen years. The research showed 4 critical outcomes. First, a person’s moral foundations are generally in place by the time they reach 9. Their
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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John Wesley: Desired personal holiness, but felt like a failure.
A serious man speaking to John Wesley, "Sir, you wish to serve God and to heaven? Remember that you cannot serve him alone. You must therefore find companions or make them; the Bible knows nothing of solitary religion."
Wesley's
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Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Nov 15, 2002
Lois Stahling is the most thankful person I know. Lois goes to our church at Oak Hills. When Lois was in the prime of her life she had a stroke and was confined to a wheel chair. She is still mentally alert but she cannot walk and do a lot of other normal activities. She lives in a convalescent
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 22, 2002
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Lee Eclov tells the story of one such person. “People came early one Christmas Eve for the 11:00 pm service at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, in New York City. Among them was a recovering alcoholic, six months sober, who slipped into the eleventh row. This was his first Christmas since having
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