Contributed by Michael Brown on Mar 11, 2008
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One Word
I sat down one day and began to think about what word I would choose if I could only choose one word to describe myself; one word which would describe me better than any other word.
Many words immediately began to pour into my mind. I could think of so many aspects of my life that I
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Contributed by Stephan Brown on Aug 26, 2002
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HEAVEN'S GATEWAY
I recently made a trip to Ellis Island in New York. Ellis Island was once the biggest immigration processing center in the U.S. It processed thousands of immigrants a day. All of these immigrants left their homelands through much difficulty to come to “the land of promise.” They
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Assembly Of God
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PATIENCE MAKES IT HAPPEN
"The history books are full of stories of gifted persons whose talents were overlooked by a procession of people until someone believed in them. To name a few ...
"Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read". Einstein became one of
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United Methodist
Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jun 11, 2004
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This is a true story. Two guys in a church, Paul and William decided that they really wanted to become godly men. So they started meeting with one another to pray and encourage one another; they even set goals for themselves and their behavior, and then were accountable to the other one.
Paul
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Baptist
Contributed by Steve Malone on Sep 9, 2004
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Bill Hybels writes the following in his book, ‘Courageous Leadership,’
Ten years ago I sat in a little restaurant during my summer study break and wrote these words; The local church is the hope of the world and it’s future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
For the first time, I
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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The life of Andrew Urshan is remarkable to say the least. There is a biography of him available from the Pentecostal Publishing House that every one ought to read. He wrote that his own disappointments had turned into being God’s appointments. There came a song from his own hand that was
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Sep 18, 2005
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Fred Craddock, who taught at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, once said: “To give my life for Christ appears glorious. To pour myself out for others ... to pay the ultimate price of martyrdom — I’ll do it. I’m ready, Lord, to go out in a blaze of glory. We think giving our all to
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Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Oct 11, 2005
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Quoting the English preacher John Daniel Jones: He lived from 1865-1942, this is from his sermon The Sovereignty of God
In our absorption in the thought of God as Father, we have almost lost sight of the fact that He is the Holy Sovereign, ruling the world in righteousness. The result has been
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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Fathering Is Hard Work: According to the 6/10/03 issue of Family Circle magazine in its national poll of fathers finds:
· 94% feel building a family is the hardest and most important thing a man can do.
· 71% say fatherhood is more demanding than they expected, while 88% say fatherhood is more
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Most Neo-Pagans have the following factors in common:
• Their religion was almost or completely wiped out in the past and has since then been reconstructed from ancient information sources
• They are either duo-theistic or poly-theistic in nature (recognizing a goddess and god or many gods.)
• Most
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Contributed by Larry Thornton on Nov 23, 2006
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Encouragement: -- There were four boys, all brothers, walking along the banks of a stream, and playing as they went. Like most boys, their idea of fun was to go as far into danger as they could, and at length one of them fell into a deep place. He could not swim, but immediately his brother who
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 10, 2006
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The news carried the story this week of a faithful father. James Kim was an editor for CNET. CNN reports: “On November 25 the Kims had begun a drive home to San Francisco, California, after a Thanksgiving vacation in Oregon. They missed a turn and found themselves stranded in snow and lost on
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Methodist
Contributed by Kent Kessler on Apr 8, 2007
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That reminds me of what happened to a tribe in the jungles of East Asia, when missionaries showed them the Jesus film. It was a big deal when I was in Seminary and one of my friends was a missionary telling me about all that was going on with the Jesus Film. The movie was being shown as an
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Methodist
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 26, 2010
GOOD FOR GOODNESS' SAKE
“You better watch out, you better not cry
Better not pout I'm telling you why - Santa Claus is coming to town
He's making a list and checking it twice; Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice
Santa Claus is coming to town
He sees you when you're sleeping - He knows when
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 28, 2011
STAYING IN THE SHALLOW END
He stays at the shallow end of the pool for a long time, refusing invitations to come out into the deeper water, even with his dad. But after a long time considering it, my grandson Zion Brave Bennett thrusts himself into the pool, swimming underwater and then
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Aug 29, 2011
WHO IS THIS GUY?
Chuck Colson relates this interesting story in his book How Then Should We Live?:
"In William Steig's Yellow & Pink, a delightfully whimsical picture book for children, two wooden figures wake up to find themselves lying on an old newspaper in the hot sun. One figure is painted
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Methodist
A DIFFERENCE IN WORLDVIEW
It was one of those awkward moments in a friendship -- when you feel like you should speak up, but you're not sure how your friend will react. I was a teenager -- just finishing up high school, thinking about the future. My best friend and I were preparing for a day of
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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