Contributed by Paul Durbin on Feb 16, 2003
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I’ve read that Michelangelo, the great sculptor and painter, was pushing a heavy rock
up a small incline to his work area so that he could do some sculpting. A neighbor
watched him for over an hour as he worked to get this rock in place. Finally he asked,
"Michelangelo, why do you labor so
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Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Jan 10, 2010
I once took a graduate level class on the psychology of learning, and in that class we talked about the way people learn. And I remember one time we were talking about babies and how they perceive certain things. It was kind of amusing actually, but they did a study where they would sit a baby
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Independent/Bible
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I am going to paraphrase what Paul W. Powell, in The Complete Disciple, wrote as he described this condition: "Many churches today remind me of a group of farmers trying to gather in a harvest while they sit in the machine shed. They go to the machine shed every Sunday and they study bigger and
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Dec 12, 2003
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I stood by the grave of Irene Picket. Irene was 91 years old and had out lived her husband and children. She had an abrasive personality and a sharp tongue. That meant she had few friends. As her pastor I had visited her and had learned to love Irene. She was terribly interesting. She had been
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People have pursued joy in every avenue imaginable. Some have successfully found it while others have not. Perhaps it would be easier to describe where joy cannot be found:
• Not in Unbelief — Voltaire was an infidel of the most pronounced type. He wrote: “I wish I had never been born… (and at his
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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I heard a story about a little boy that was to have heart surgery. The surgeon sat beside the boy's bed and his parents sat across from him. The surgeon said to the little boy, "Tomorrow morning, I'll open up your heart." The little boy interrupted the surgeon and said;
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Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jan 19, 2004
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On a flight to a large city, I was able to tune in the tower on the radio as we were landing and overheard a flight controller telling a pilot to remain in a holding pattern because there was a plane coming in that needed to land immediately. The pilot replied that he thought he could land and
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 24, 2002
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I read a story once about a farmer in southern Louisiana who captured a mallard duck and tied it with a cord to a stake at the edge of a pond. Through the winter the mallard swam around with the domestic ducks and even ate from the hand of the farmer. When Spring came, all of the other wild ducks
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Wesleyan
Theologian J.I. Packer: "…think of it this way. It is as if the Spirit stands behind us, throwing light over our shoulder on to Jesus who stands facing us. The Spirit’s message to us is never, 'Look at me; listen to me; come to me; get to know me,' but always, 'Look at him, and see his glory;
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Contributed by Tim Shepard on May 12, 2007
I’m going to share with you some startling facts; facts that you may not even be aware of. According to a 2004 Gallop Poll 76% of all Americas claim to be Born Again Christians. The same
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