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"In prayer, you ask for things and give thanks for things. Why? Because you recognize that God is the author and source of all the good that you have had already, and all the good that you hoped for in the future. This is the fundamental philosophy of Christian prayer. The prayer of a Christian is
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Contributed by Larry East on Feb 13, 2009
Our faith in Jesus Christ and our love for Him shows how much we love God.
Let me illustrate. Let’s say that you tell me that you love me and that you care about me. But one day, my car won’t start, and I’ve got a really important appointment that I can’t miss. Now let’s suppose that I send my
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LIGHTS FOR OUR PATH
A couple of years ago, I went outside after dark to look at the stars in ways we couldn’t while back in Minnesota. I stepped from the porch, with the lights of course, and then I tripped on the water-hose. Down I went, taking my wife and daughter with me. Truth be known —
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Lutheran
Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Mar 14, 2008
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God is always true to His promises. Our trust is never misplaced when our trust is in Him. Frances Havergal, the noted hymn writer, loved the Word of God and the God of the Word. As she was dying at the early age of forty-three, Havergal asked a friend who was standing by her bed to read to her
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2001
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It is a testimony to our self-centeredness that we identify ourselves with Job. We are not like him; we are represented by his friends, his family, his enemies. The lesson of Job is not so much about bad things happening to good people
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Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 28, 2010
OUR WILL IS OURS
"We have no direct control over our feelings, but we have over our will. Our wills are ours, to make them God's. God does not hold us responsible for what we feel, but for what we will. In His sight we're not what we feel, but what we will. Let us, therefore, not live in the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Love of God is the root, love of our neighbour the fruit of the Tree of Life. Neither can exist without the other,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"God will give us opportunities to try our consecration, whether it be a true one or not. No man can be wholly the Lords unless he is wholly consecrated to the Lord; and no man can
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Sep 29, 2005
In the hard school of life God’s answer to our problems don’t come in the form of neatly pre-packaged solutions, like strips of shrink-wrapped capsules labelled for each anxiety we have, carrying a certificate of immunity from the hazards of life.
If I may give a personal illustration of this.
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