Contributed by Bruce Ball on Jan 19, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Today, I would like to talk about, not when we were saved, but how we continue to be saved.  And I am going to do that using the analogy of a set of instructions.
When I first bought my mandolin, I had never played one before.  With that mandolin, I bought a couple of ‘how to play the mandolin’
                    
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                    BEWARE OF JEALOUSY
Mrs. Wesley was extremely jealous of her husband. His work set him in the position of friend and counselor to many women. Among his helpers and in the institutions that were springing up under his care, women were employed, and each one was for his insanely jealous wife an
                    
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                    I was pumping and finally  my friend Sorin said, “You know Ovidiu, I don’t think there is any water left down there…  Oh yes, still there but deep down… And the good thing about the water that is deep down at 50 feet underground, is this: the deeper the water - the purer, the sweeter, the cooler
                    
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                    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 18, 2010
                
                
                
                    If a person sees a house on fire and does everything he can to rescue the occupants, he is heralded as a hero. And that’s the way it should be. Why is it, then, that a Christian who accepts what God says in the Bible about hell and tries to warn people is ridiculed as an alarmist?
We read about a
                    
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                    When we buried my father ten years ago (2000), my mother had him buried in his bathrobe and pajamas.  She wanted to communicate the truth that the Christian’s body is only asleep at death, that one day his body will awake, and there will be a resurrection!  The bathrobe and pajamas were a beautiful
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on May 14, 2010
                
                
                
                    I work in a building called THE SHALOM CENTRE in Sydney. Recently Kathryn, a Jewish girl said she found it unusual that we would call a building Shalom, since it is a Jewish term for saying HI AND GOODBYE. It literally means "PEACE BE WITH YOU". Shalom is a Biblical word.
This got me thinking and
                    
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                    JOHN STOTT ON TEMPTATION
"The command to get rid of troublesome eyes, hands and feet 
is an example of our Lord’s use of dramatic figures of speech.  What he was advocating was not a literal physical self-maiming, but a ruthless moral self-denial...to reject sinful practices so resolutely that we
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
                
                
                
                    WHAT AMERICANS BELIEVE
Even those who claim to be Born Again are not necessarily firmly grounded in the truths of the Bible. In his book which provides a statistical analysis of religious beliefs in America, George Barna cites several fascinating statistics which are based on a national survey.
                    
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                    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 9, 2011
                
                
                
                    THE QUEEN
Duke of Lancaster, Lord of Mann, Duke of Normandy, Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Garter (a dress shop?), Sovereign of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Sovereign of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Sovereign of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 13, 2011
                
                
                
                    MARGARET: THE HARD SOIL
Each week I give a devotion in each of the 8 dining areas of the Shalom Centre and Margaret (not her real name) is there, with ears which will not hear. Her heart is a fortress, cold, hard, defensive. The gates are huge, old and impenetrable, bolted with fear and pride that
                    
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                    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 15, 2011
                
                
                
                    THE STORMS OF MATTHEW 8
When I was a teen living in Okinawa, I remember some of my friends and I taking a boat from the main island of Okinawa to visit one of the smaller islands. It was during the typhoon season and though we were not in a typhoon, it was a really, really scary storm.
We were in
                    
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