Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Feb 10, 2008
Each of our days are measured in the 24 hours it takes for the Earth to rotate on its axis. A year is the time the Earth takes to revolve around the Sun, about 365 and a quarter days. That’s why every four years an extra day at the end of February is added – well that’s not quite true because if
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 18, 2008
Another result is that we pervert our assignment to care for the earth. Humans have misunderstood the use of having dominion over the earth as a license to do what we want with the earth. After all, since it is all going to be incinerated (rather than purified by a refiner’s fire), then let’s use
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When Benjamin Franklin, one of our founding fathers, served as the Ambassador to France, he occasionally attended what was called The Infidels Club -- a group that spent most of its time searching for and reading literary masterpieces.
On one occasion Franklin read the book of Ruth to the club,
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 8, 2008
“Love for our neighbor consists of three things: to desire the greater good of everyone; to do what good we can when we can; to bear, excuse and hide other’s faults”. (Barton, B. B. (1993). John.
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 25, 2008
The home should be the place where our spiritual life and everyday life meet. Recover the sacredness of the family table. Throughout history, mealtime, especially the dinner meal, has been considered a sacred time. Remember when the disciples shared a meal with the risen Christ? It was at the meal
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Church Of God
Our solar system bears witness to orderly, careful design. Consider the slant of our earth, tilted at a 23° angle. If it wasn't so tilted, we would lose not only our seasons, but life itself, as the vapors from the ocean would move north and south, piling up continents of ice.
Or the distance to
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on May 3, 2008
YOURS, MINE AND OURS: CROCK-POT STEPFAMILIES
Video Clip - Yours, Mine and Ours (2005 version) = 3:23
Clip shows husband and wife announcing they were married without telling the children beforehand and shows the children fighting and Dad reacting badly.
But the hammer is no answer and no better a
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 3, 2008
"Our lives should always be the first things to speak; and if our lips speak more than our lives, it will avail very little. So often the tragedy has been that people proclaim the gospel in words, but their whole life and demeanor has been a denial of it. The world does not pay much attention to
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Contributed by David Dewitt on May 12, 2008
Our society has adopted the use of an ancient Greek word as a type of prefix. The Greek word is mega which means great. Think about it. We use mega a great deal.
• Mega-mall
• Megabytes
• Mega-size drinks
• Megachurches
I argue that we need to be people
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Contributed by Anne Benefield on May 28, 2008
Earlier this week, I was talking to our music director, Jim Turk, about this sermon. I told him that I was going to challenge you to live out your faith. I told him a story about myself that makes me very self-conscious. It is a story I had never told anyone else. I explained to Jim that it was
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 9, 2008
Our cultural advertising motto is “sex sells.” Sex sells clothes, cars, food, beverages, even exercise equipment. “You can have the body that you have always wanted.” While they show two “perfectly” chiseled bodies using their equipment (always one male and one female), the message is that once you
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Malcolm Britton (one of our Readers) has a wonderful definition of sheep. He says: “From the day they are born, assuming they are born alive they are looking for ingenious ways
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Anglican
Contributed by David Moore on Jul 11, 2008
If someone ran through the door of our church tonight and cried out, “There is an exothermic oxidation of a combustible substance resulting in rapid, persistent chemical change which is releasing heat and light, accompanied by flame.” We might wonder what the problem is. But if they just should
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Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
“God’s Hand Upon Our President, Pt. 2”
Proverbs 21:1 says; “The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD; He directs it like a watercourse wherever He pleases.” Proverbs 21 is a powerful truth that must be grasped so Christians may pray in faith that God is fully able to put into effect His
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Contributed by Michael West on Oct 2, 2008
He is our desperate need: 2 Peter 1:3-4
Without Him, we are lost. Without Him, we are like a toy that needs batteries…
We were born into this world blind to the truth of God—
I Corinthians 2:14. Without Him, we would have remained full of corruption. With Him, we now
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Oct 7, 2008
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Our churches today need to be a spiritual house. Many times our churches have become a social house where as one old preacher said:
We traded our upper room into the board room,
the fire of the Holy Spirit for a warm heater,
our prayer meetings for chicken dinners,
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 24, 2008
The recent problems in our economy can be used as a wakeup call for us all. Maybe this current anxiety will turn many eyes toward God. The church is often at its best in tragedy and calamity. In 1867, many banks and factories were closing in America. Because of these problems, Jeremiah Lanphier
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Christian/Church Of Christ