Contributed by Bob Soulliere on Feb 3, 2007
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In a far country lived a band of minstrels who traveled from town to town presenting music to make a living. They had not been doing well. Times were hard; there was little money for common folk to come to hear the minstrels, even though their fee was small. Attendance had been falling off, so
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Contributed by Anne Benefield on Feb 14, 2008
This past week I heard a man named Paul Peck speak. He talked about watching the riots in Los Angeles in April of 1992 following the acquittal of the four white officers who beat Rodney King. Paul watched in horror as African Americans burned down their own communities and businesses, but instead
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During his 1933 Inaugural Address, President Franklin Roosevelt sought to calm a troubled America in the throes of depression by saying, "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." Fear is a feeling of dread, alarm, panic and anxiety. Fear ranges from mild anxiety to panic attacks. The
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DAVID F. LLOYD in his essay “Rights vs Responsibilities” Summer 2001 Issue of Vision:
Legally, rights have never been so extensively defined. For starters, there are the rights of ethnic minorities. Then we have the rights of women. The rights of children. The rights of homosexuals. The right to
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Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Oct 11, 2009
PETER O’BRIEN says that Col 3:18 ‘is an appeal to free and responsible agents to voluntarily subordinate themselves to their husbands since this is entirely proper within the new fellowship
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 28, 2010
Our giving to God should not be a mindless impulsive response to him. The lesson here teaches that our giving should be a process that I call the DISC principle: deliberate, systematic, intentional, and carefully thought
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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During his days as guest lecturer at Calvin Seminary, R.B.Kuiper once used the following illustration of God’s sovereignty and human responsibility:
I liken them to two ropes going through two holes in the ceiling and over a pulley above. If I wish to support myself by them, I must cling to them
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Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Jan 14, 2008
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Romans 6:11 "So you should consider yourselves dead to sin and able to live for the glory of God through Christ Jesus."
Something that’s dead is unresponsive. I’ve brought one of my daughter’s stuffed animals today, a large dog. When she was little she called him James T. Bone. It’s not really
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Mennonite
Contributed by Melvin Newland on May 25, 2005
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ILL. There is an old story of a young boy who saw the 3 wise men coming to worship the baby Jesus. He watched in wide-eyed wonder as they presented their gifts of gold, frankincense & myrrh.
Oh, how much he wanted to worship the baby, too. But he had nothing to give, no gift worthy of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
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BIBLE CONFUSION
The little girl was sitting with her grandmother, who had presented her with her first little children’s Bible, in an easy-to-read translation, when she was very young.
Now, a decade or so later, the elderly lady was ready to spend a few sweet moments handing down the big old
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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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Methodist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 31, 2007
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Clark Clifford shares this reminiscence of his former boss, Harry S. Truman:
Every morning at 8:30 the President would have a staff meeting. One day the mail clerk brought in a lavender envelope with a regal wax seal and flowing purple ribbons. Opening it, the President found a letter from King
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Baptist
Shakespeare’s Henry the Fifth
In the Shakespearean play Henry the Fifth (which was also a movie a few years ago), King Henry comes against incredible odds on the battlefield.
In one scene you see hundreds of bowmen in the back lines sending a downpour of arrows arching over their own front
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Contributed by Dewayne Howard on Feb 4, 2003
Henry Blackaby once said, “Your life is the sum of the responses you have made toward God. Once God makes himself known to you, what you do next is your
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