Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 25, 2008
There is virtually no connection between the Temple and modern church buildings. As we will see later in the series, it really isn’t right to call a church building "the House of the Lord." It is okay in a figurative sense, just as our praise is not an offering in the sense of killing and animal
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
“If we don’t feel strong desires for… God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with small things and there is no room for the great.” (John Piper,
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 14, 2008
As Christians, we have to be careful that we remember justice, and not “just us …we watch out for “our kind” and nobody else. It is one thing to disagree as to what is in the best interest of others, it is another to not really care and to not make the effort to put oneself in their
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HOW'S BUSINESS?
Peter Drucker, as you probably know, is a management consultant without equal. He says in one of his many books that there are two questions that people in any organization ought to ask themselves -- whether it be a manufacturing plant, the sales division of a large
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 6, 2008
Back when I was about 12 years old, a new "snack shop" opened up in our neighborhood. It was a hamburger fast food business started by a local resident. The first day the shop was opened, food was on the house -- free. This was a way of getting attention and interesting
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Nov 14, 2008
It’s time that we punch a hole in the heavens and break through in hungry travail so the glory of God can begin to shine down on our city. But we can’t even get a trickle to flow down the aisle, much less
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 8, 2008
A church was having a break in problem so they had a new alarm system installed. When the alarm goes off, the alarm company calls the church, calls the pastor, calls the assitant pastor, and then calls the sheriff. We need alarms like that in our lives.
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jul 10, 2023
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As the storm raged, the captain realized his ship was sinking fast.
He called out, “Anyone here knows how to pray?”
A pastor stepped forward. “Captain, I know how to pray.”
“Good,” said the captain, “you pray while the
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Philip Yancey shared this in Rumours of Another World, pp.154-55:
Living in Colorado, I climb mountains. Colorado has 54 mountains rising above 14,000 ft and every summer I climb some of them. On a summer weekend in the mountains, I see casual hikers who have no idea what they are doing. In
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Contributed by David Parks on Sep 18, 2006
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NEVER GIVE UP
Haddon Robinson tells the following story. I hope you appreciate it as I did.
It was New Year’s Day, 1929, and Georgia Tech. and UCLA were battling it out in the Rose Bowl. Georgia Tech. fumbled the football late in the first half. Roy Riggles recovered for California. Picking up the
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Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Dec 19, 2009
Receiving confirmation for a significant event or activity is often important. When I was in the South African Air Force serving as an Air Traffic Controller, I used to tease the permanent force guys mercilessly. At a certain time each year they would receive news of promotions and new assignments.
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THE CIRCLE MAKER
Pastor Mark Batterson wrote a book called "The Circle Maker". He tells the following.
The Book of Legends, is a collection of stories from the Jewish Talmud, when I discovered the true legend of Honi the Circle Maker. It forever changed the way I pray. I pray more. I pray with
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The Treasury of Bible Illustration notes this: The First and Hardest Lesson - “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” says Robert Fulgham’s popular essay and book. In truth, one of life’s most important and hardest lessons comes to us long before kindergarten. This lesson is painful
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