RESOLUTIONS THROUGH THE YEARS
Has anyone decided what your New Year’s Resolutions will be for 2011? Before you do it, let’s take a look at how Resolutions tend to work out… Here are some examples:
2007: I will read at least 10 books this year
2008: I will try to finish the book I started last
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I KNEW MY FATHER WAS PLEASED
It reminds me of a story that Jonathan Goforth (1859-1936) the great Canadian missionary in China, used to tell.
Jonathan’s father put him in charge of one of the family farms at the age of 15. He drew special attention to one very large field, which had become choked
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Anglican
Contributed by David Owens on Mar 14, 2011
ENGAGING GOD'S POWER
Spiritual growth and success is a partnership with God.
Paul captured this idea in Philippians 2:12-13, where he wrote: "continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose." We work
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Contributed by Mark Adams on Aug 13, 2011
DEFICIENCIES
I want to tell you about a weird thing that used to happen a lot to sailors during the 1600s. Vessels were getting more sea worthy, and adventures were taking people farther and farther from home. You might be on the same ship with the same people, with the same person cooking for
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ON THE WAY TO THE FAIR
A man was going to the county fair one day with a pig under one arm and a chicken under one arm, and a basket on his head. He came to a crossroads and didn’t know which way to turn. While he stood there deciding, an attractive young woman approached him, heading the same
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Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 27, 2011
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NUK NUK NUK
As you know our 12-year-old son Chase is autistic. I have introduced both our boys to a very intellectual series of programs called The Three Stooges. The problem with Chase being autistic is he can do a "Nuk Nuk" almost anywhere at anytime. So the slapstick has started at our house. I
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 5, 2011
TWO FACES
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Frank and Louie the cat was born with two faces, two mouths, two noses, three eyes — and lots of doubts about his future.
Now, 12 years after Marty Stevens rescued him from being euthanized because of his condition, the exotic blue-eyed rag doll cat is not only
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 21, 2011
THE LOST (AND FOUND) BAPTISTERY
Supposedly, it was constructed around 1828; sometime between then and about 1930 it was forgotten and unused till discovered in May of 2002. No one knows for certain when the open air baptistery of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Fort Gaines, Georgia, was last used.
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Visit of some of our Church members to a Departmental store to buy gifts for orphans/widows during Christmas season...
Last Christmas, the womenfolk of our Church went to a reasonably distant Departmental store to buy gifts for the widows/orphans/Sunday school children of our Church. When, they
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Contributed by Thomas Clawser on Dec 3, 2011
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WISHING VS. HOPING
Eugene Peterson (Living the Message: Daily Help for Living the God-Centered Life) points out that what a lot of people call hope is in reality something different. It's wishing, not hoping: and wishing and hoping are not the same thing.
"Wishing," Peterson says, "is something
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WOMEN AND PROVERBS
From Chronological Life Application Bible:
"Proverbs has a lot to say about women. How fitting that the book ends with a picture of a woman of strong character, great wisdom, many skills, and great compassion. Some people have the mistaken idea that the ideal woman in the
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In August 1995, the church I pastored made the decision to do a major renovation on our thirty-five-year-old sanctuary. The first step was to put together a crew of people to do internal demolition. Around forty people showed up to take care of this task.
Dust was everywhere as we ripped up
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