Contributed by Lin Smalec on Dec 8, 2005
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Jesus himself said to his disciples, “[L]et your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works, and give glory to your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16)
This is a concept that is sometimes a challenge for us. In fact I recently read about a little girl who came home from
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 2, 2008
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"God's 'glory' is how we describe the sum effect of all of his attributes: grace, truth, goodness, mercy, justice, knowledge, power, eternality--all that He is. Therefore, the glory of God is intrinsic; it is as essential to God as light is to the sun and as wet is to water. You don't make the sun
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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CELEBRATION FIRES
During the dark winter of 1864, at Petersburg, Virginia, the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee faced the Union divisions of General Ulysses S. Grant. Late one evening one of Lee's generals, Major General George Pickett, received word that his wife had given birth to a beautiful
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My first pastoral appointment was the Marissa and Zion United Methodist Charge in St. Clair County, Illinois, about forty miles southeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Zion had only three members and no electricity or running water. In past decades light had been provided in the sanctuary by kerosene,
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Methodist
Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Jan 15, 2007
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Like a stone on the surface of a still river
Driving the ripples on forever
Redemption rips through the surface of time
In the cry of a tiny babe
- Bruce
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"When decisions have to be made, dont look back and wonder what I would have done. Look up, and the light will come to do
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within, every
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 19, 2006
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Stephen R. Adams wrote these words:
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is peace;
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is love;
There is comfort in life’s darkest hour,
There is light and
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Contributed by David Flowers on May 17, 2005
It reminds me of the true story of a 37 year-old man in the Soviet Union who astonished friends and neighbors one day. He had been thought dead for eighteen years, when one day he emerged from under a pile of goat poop shrieking, “I want to work! I want to live!”
His neighbors were astonished
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Nov 2, 2005
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"’What’s that?’ said Lucy, clutching Susan’s arm. ’I - I feel afraid to turn around,’ said Susan; ’something awful is happening.’
The rising of the sun had made everything look so different - all colours and shadows were changed - that for a moment they didn’t see the important thing. Then they
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Contributed by John Petty on Aug 22, 2008
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"LIVING LIFE UPSIDE DOWN" by Russ Lee
John has a new way of looking at life
He’s tired of his job, his kids and his wife
He says the secret to his success
Was in leaving and finding himself
Now he’s someone to somebody else.
And you say we’ve risen to a new age of truth
You’re calling it a
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 5, 2007
There is always a thrill in belonging to a noble company. Eric Linklater in his autobiography tells of his experience in the disastrous March retreat in the First World War.
He was with the Black Watch. They had come out of the battle with one officer, thirty men, and a piper left of the
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