Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 12, 2011
A WHITE MAN WOULD COME
At 2006 when the National Missionary Convention was held in Indianapolis, IN, the invited guest for the Bible study was a man named Mont Cox, a professor at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. He told a story I think I will never forget.
As a young man growing up he
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
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FROM MY MOTHER
From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.
Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States.
SOURCE: Celebrating Mothers, A book of
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Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 18, 2006
Demosthenes was the Greek orator who trained himself to speak publicly and clearly by filling his mouth with beach pebbles, then spoke so as to be heard above the ocean waves. Just so we have learned to self-speak so that we hear only our voices over the
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Contributed by Ken Pell on Apr 19, 2010
R.C. Sproul gives us a simple way to grasp God's holiness:
"The first prayer I learned as a child was the simple table grace: 'God is great, God is good, and we thank Him for this food.' The two virtues assigned to God in this prayer, greatness and
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Nazarene
Notice the great truths we learn about worship from the example of the Wise Men:
Worship is an act of those who are wise.
Worship calls for divine guidance.
Worship demands a separation.
Worship calls for concentration.
Worship calls for a commitment.
Worship brings great joy to the
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Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 9, 2002
William Rathje likes garbage. This Harvard-educated researcher is convinced we can learn a lot from the trash dumps of the world. Archaeologists have always examined trash to study a society. Rathje does the same; he just eliminates the wait. The Garbage Project, as he calls his organization,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 25, 2002
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THE TRUE CHRISTMAS LONGING
C.S. Lewis writes in “Mere Christianity”:
“Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give
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Mennonite
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Story: Some years ago when Johnny Carson was the host of the well known American chat show: The Tonight Show he interviewed an eight year old boy.
The boy was asked to appear because he had
rescued two friends in a coalmine outside his hometown in West Virginia.
As Carson questioned the boy, it
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Anglican
Contributed by Kyle Meador on Jan 22, 2001
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Martin Luther many years ago was looking for a way to help the people of his day learn to praise God in song. So he went into the pubs to find out what they were singing. He took a popular tune and set words to it… “A Mighty Fortress is
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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YES, THE CONCEPT OF THE TRINITY IS VERY DEEP, BUT INSTEAD OF TRYING TO UNDERSTAND ITS DEPTH, THINK OF IT IN THE WORDS OF THE ANGLICAN CATECHISM WHICH SAYS, "FIRST, I LEARN TO BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER WHO HAS MADE ME AND ALL THE WORLD. SECONDLY, IN GOD THE SON WHO REDEEMS ME, AND
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Ken Kersten on Nov 12, 2002
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A little boy that said to his dad, “dad, why is the sky blue?” I don’t know son. "dad, why is the grass green?" I don’t know son. Dad...etc. Finally the boy said, "Dad, do you mind me asking these
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