Contributed by Greg Buchner on Mar 8, 2005
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A quote from Cliffe Knechtle…
“Although I do not know why God allowed evil, I do know that he wants to destroy it. That is why there is hell.
Although I do not know why God allowed pain, I do know he wants to wipe every tear from our eyes and give us joy for eternity in his presence. That is why
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Jun 21, 2005
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Our favor with God would be enough if we thought that you would have:
Enough happiness to keep you sweet.
Enough trials to keep you strong.
Enough sorrow to keep you human.
Enough hope to keep you happy.
Enough failure to keep you humble.
Enough success to keep you eager.
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Contributed by Roy Carter on Dec 5, 2005
Louis Talbot tells a story about being in India where a lion and a tiger had both fallen into a pit. Of course everyone was gathered around to see if these two foes would do battle and which one would win. And Talbot says that they each circle around for awhile snarling and hissing and feigning
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
Hollywood Wants Religion The huge box-office successes of The Passion of the Christ and The Chronicles of Narnia have Hollywood mining religious congregations for possible new audiences. The 2006 Tribeca Film Festival sponsored a panel where film industry insiders talked about the apparent new
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A man and a woman in love long for a union, the natural result of which is offspring that are neither entirely the man’s, nor the woman’s, but bear the unmistakable marks of both. That union, Scripture boldly declares, has a spiritual parallel (Ephesians 5:31-32). Though this initially shocks our
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Mar 10, 2001
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I recently saw the film of the American classic ’Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and realised afresh that slavery is such a terrible institution, a blot on the human race. It has been a source of puzzlement why Paul did not condemn it outright, for here was his opportunity to do so. And yet he remained
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Baptist
“When I was a boy I used to hug a rubber hot water bottle in bed at night to beat off the chill air from the frigid Irish Sea. Comfort! One morning I woke up wet, cold, and miserable. The rubber hot water bottle had perished. It had slowly deteriorated, imperceptibly disintegrated and was
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Christian/Church Of Christ
This week I have been reading the book, “How to Forgive When You Don’t Feel Like It” by June Hunt.
She opened her book with the following Introduction, “Resentment...rage…retaliation. Ever struggle with forgiveness? Ever thought it was impossible? Ever knew you oughta but didn’t wanna? I believe
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ELF
In the Christmas movie Elf the title character discovers he was a human baby raised by elves. He travels back to New York City to find his bio-dad, in the process learns, and teaches others about caring. Will Ferrell describes his journey by saying, "I passed through the seven levels of the
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Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 7, 2009
Pride was deadly in the summer of 1986, when two ships collided in the Black Sea off the coast of Russia. Hundreds of passengers died as they were hurled into the icy waters below. The news became even more horrifying when an investigation revealed the cause of the accident. It wasn’t a technology
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 3, 2010
One day in Pittsburg, PA, a car was stolen. As the thieves began stripping the vehicle they came across papers identifying the owner as Fred Rogers, host of the children’s television program Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. They quickly reassembled the car, cleaned and vacuumed it, and returned it with
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AN EVERYDAY LADY
On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to obey a bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. At the time of her action, Rosa Parks served as the secretary of her local NAACP chapter. But even so, she acted as a private
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 11, 2011
SEXUALITY, SELF, AND IDENTITY
Michael Foucault, in The History of Sexuality: "Sexuality is a word that now serves a purpose like the word soul did in the Middle Ages. In that period, people believed that one's soul united the various aspects of human identity and gave significance to that
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