Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 7, 2010
When I was in seminary, I heard an illustration that has stuck with me over the years. It began with a question, “Whose holding your trampoline?”
The image there is of a group a people stationed around the sides of the trampoline to keep you from falling off.
The purpose of the question was to have
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I remember the tears I shed at the Psalmody of Thy Church, in the beginning of my recovered faith; and how at this time, I am moved, not with the singing,
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Contributed by David Tack on Dec 22, 2011
"I define bitterness as 'internalized anger.' I cite the old adage, 'Bitterness does more damage to the vessel in which it is stored than to anyone upon which it is poured.'"
Ref: Sutton, Jerry. A
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Contributed by Keith Broyles on Oct 4, 2007
When I was associate pastor in Canton, I was often fascinated watching people at First Monday. There was a place on the First Monday grounds called the unreserved section. Most of us would call the vendors at this particular part of the grounds “junk dealers.” There were people who went to First
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Contributed by Edward Hardee on Nov 14, 2007
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As I was reading the newspaper the other day I came across a letter that had been written to dear Abby. It was from a young man named Paul. It reads like this, "Dear Abby: When I was in law school, I shared an apartment with three other graduate students who like me, held part-time jobs and has
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Nov 27, 2007
“I’m going to be forty this month, but I approached thirty with more apprehension, I think, and the sense of time gone by. I’ve had more time to learn about myself, ten more years.
“I no longer fool myself, not easily anyway. I know when I’m making excuses and when I’m making choices, and the
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sean Harder on Aug 5, 2011
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GIVE GOD THE BIG STUFF, TOO
I am mechanically inept and every once in a while I try to do some mechanical thing. Sometimes it's as simple as trying to put up a light fixture. Inevitably it fights back and doesn't go easily. I start getting frustrated and forcing the issue, usually making it worse.
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 3, 2008
I was using pot and drinking. I gravitated toward rock and eventually into heavy metal and thrash, because this music fed my negative emotions. In fact, there were specific songs that I couldn’t hear for several years later without having a response that put me emotionally back in that place.
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Contributed by Chip Monck on Feb 15, 2005
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In the book The God Chasers, Tommy Tenney writes, "I don’t know about you, but I am tired of just being ‘another somebody’ to the lost around me. I have made a decision. I made up my mind and set my heart to declare, ‘I am going to pursue the presence of God in my life. I am going to get so close
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There was an older man in my church in Texas who came to me with tears in his eyes after a sermon I preached on tithing. He said, "Pastor, thank you for telling our people the truth about how God can bless you when you are obedient to His Word."
He wiped a tear and said, "Pastor, I
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 3, 2002
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God Reaches Out to Find Us
During an Aug. 4 Sunday school class at National Presbyterian Church, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice described how she had drifted from her Christian faith -- and how God reached out and brought her back:
"I was a preacher’s kid, so Sundays were church, no
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Contributed by Brian Atwood on May 5, 2008
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"In God's Eyes," by Candace Carteen of Portland, Oregon.
By the time I was ten, I was totally ashamed of my father. All my friends called him names: Quasi-Moto, hunchback, monster, little Frankenstein, the crooked little man with the crooked little cane. At first it hurt when they called him
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 15, 2008
The early Church of God reformers believed that at a second point in time after we begin believing in Jesus, God Himself sends His Spirit to guide and direct in order to surrender our entire lives into His care. They found many people believed in Jesus but then experienced God in such a profound
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 4, 2003
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Author Max Lucado writes:
All of us occasionally do what is right. A few predominately do what is right. But do any of us always do what is right? According to Paul we don’t. "There is none righteous, no, not one" (Rom. 3:10, NKJV).
Some may beg to differ. "I’m not perfect, Max, but I’m better than
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