Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on May 31, 2011
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JAPAN'S SEA WALL
New York Times, April 16, 2011: So unshakable was this town's faith in its sea wall and its ability to save residents from any tsunami that some rushed toward it after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northeast Japan on the afternoon of March 11. After all, the
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labor of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 4, 2002
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REAL PEACE
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start.
So far today, I have finished 2 bags of chips and a chocolate cake.
I feel
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 18, 2008
In his book, Maximizing Your Effectiveness, Aubrey Malphurs says, ‘most people have a profound inner desire to accomplish something of importance with their lives during their brief stay on planet earth. They want more than anything to
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Church Of God
Contributed by Glenn Durham on Aug 13, 2008
Kent Hughes, who pastored in Chicago, tells something which happened to a dear friend. This lady was a missionary on furlough after a particularly difficult season of service. Now, for the first time since they had been missionaries, they had bought a place of their own to rest and recover. The
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Tim Hbc on Apr 9, 2008
Christian psychologist Dr Gary Collins writes that depression may be as mild as a “passing period of sadness that follows a personal disappointment" and in its severer forms can be overwhelming “feelings of despair, fear, exhaustion, immobilizing apathy,
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Baptist
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Definition of Joy: “A delight in life that runs deeper than pain or pleasure… it is not limited by nor tied solely to external circumstances. Joy is a gift from God, and like all of his other inner gifts it can be experienced even in the midst of
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Baptist
Showalter states, “I define forgiving as the elimination of all desire for revenge and personal ill will toward those who deeply wrong or betray us. This elimination usually brings an inner peace of heart and the freedom of not having our lives
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Swindoll states, “ Solitude has nurturing qualities all its own. Anyone who must have superficial sounds to survive lacks depth. If you can’t stand to be alone with yourself, you have deep, unresolved conflicts in your inner
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
We "must distinguish between the error, which must always be rejected, and the person in error, who never loses his dignity as a person even though he flounders amid false or inadequate religious ideas. God alone is the judge and the searcher of
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Catholic
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One can change the time on a clock either by moving the hands or by moving the main wheel. And just as it is better to change the time by moving the inner mechanism, so it is better to move a man - whether oneself or another person--by influencing his consciousness.
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Wilson Mcmahon on Feb 28, 2007
Short and Long Term Survival
(from E-Sword)
Here is a spiritual insight from Charles A. Lindbergh: "Short term survival may depend on the knowledge of
nuclear physicists and the performance of supersonic aircraft, but long term survival depends alone on the
character of man. We must
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Church Of God
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