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Churches present state-- Barna did a recent pole and 90% of the USA claims to be Christian. He then did another pole and asked certain Christian concepts - Here are the results:
He asked Christians what Jesus’ Great Commission was from Matthew 28:19,20 - 86% responded with the wrong answer or did
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Contributed by Larry Wilson on Oct 7, 2011
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DEACONS AND LIGHTS
In our church, we have someone that does the maintenance and replaces light bulbs and things like that. They do not want their pastor to do this for two good reasons:
1) I know very little about maintenance, and my church knows that I know very little.
2) They don't want the
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Contributed by Richard Francis on May 19, 2007
For me the scariest verse in the Bible is: Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ’Sir, open the door for us.‘ To die and be told by Jesus I don’t know you that is a reality to awful to contemplate, I know it will not happen to me,
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Clive Calver tells the story of his mother-in-law who had Alzheimer’s Disease - him and his wife were contemplating bringing her home - they went to visit not knowing if she would even recognize them. Clive told her that he would pray for her and if she wanted she could pray after he did. Her
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Jim Kane on May 25, 2004
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Eric Reed in this past week’s Leadership Weekly e-mail column related the following story.
“After Easter last year, a woman approached a pastor I know and asked, "So what happened with Jesus after the Resurrection?" "Well, he ascended into heaven and he’s still alive," the pastor said.
"I know he
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Contributed by Roy Carter on Dec 5, 2005
And near the end of Book 3 of The Chronicles The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as Edmund and Lucy find that they have to go back to their world and will not be coming into Narnia anymore
Lucy sobs, “It isn’t Narnia, you know, it’s you. We shan’t meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 3, 2009
Simply put the person asking for bread in the middle of the night is not admirable but is rude. He does not know or does not care about shame.
By the way does everyone know what BFF is? It is part of the new lingo of texting, which is kind of like shorthand. BFF is “Best Friends Forever.” And now
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 26, 2012
WHERE ARE YOU?
But to be able to get where you’re going, you first have to know where you are. I learned this over Thanksgiving when I was in Atlanta. We used our Garman to get around as we were unfamiliar with the area. Garmans are great because all you do is enter the address of where you want
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Contributed by Todd Catteau on Jan 19, 2009
Ever play a board game and try to play without reading the rules? You figure you can figure it out as you go. And then you get to a situation that you don’t know what to do. Err one has a different idea, people start getting mad, people quite the game, call others names, cheaters. Why the
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Contributed by Larry Thompson on Jun 6, 2002
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Last week I read in the advice column in the paper about a couple who was celebrating 50 years of marriage. The husband wrote that someone commented, ¡§Ken, 50 years is a long time.¡¨ He immediately responded: ¡§Not nearly as long as it would have been without her.¡¨ I couldn¡¦t get the man¡¦s
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Oct 30, 2007
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As I was growing up with a younger brother and sister, one of our favorite games to play was baseball. We had a plastic bat and ball, and we would team up with some of the neighborhood kids and play ball in the back yard.
On one particular occasion my mom took our bat away from us because we were
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Contributed by Ricky Johnson on Jun 15, 2008
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The musings of a child through the years:
4 years old: my Dad can do anything
7 years old: my Dad knows a lot, a whole lot
9 years old: my dad doesn’t know quite everything
12 years old: Oh well, naturally Dad does not know that either
14 years old: my Dad is so out of step with
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Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Jan 18, 2010
Claiming Forgiveness
How do we know our sins are gone in God’s sight? Most of us know we have been born again. We see the difference. But how do we know we are forgiven? We know it only by taking God at His word and claiming it by faith.
Emperor Napoleon, riding through his ranks fell
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