Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 6, 2004
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Gary Richmond, a former zookeeper, had this to say: Raccoons go through a glandular change at about 24 months. After that they often attack their owners. Since a 30-pound raccoon can be equal to a 100-pound dog in a scrap, I felt compelled to mention the change coming to a pet raccoon owned by a
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Sep 21, 2004
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Phillip Yancey describes grace in his book What’s So Amazing About Grace. He writes, “Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more—no amount of spiritual calisthenics and renunciations, no amount of knowledge gained from seminaries, no amount of crusading on behalf of righteous
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Sep 21, 2004
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Well known Christian pastor Chuck Swindoll puts it this way: “To show grace is to extend favor or kindness to one who
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 5, 2004
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One evening mother was busy fixing supper. Her little boy came up to her and gave her a piece of paper. She dries her hands on her apron and reads.
For cutting the grass: $5.00 For cleaning up my room this week: $1.00 For going to the store for you: $.50 Baby-sitting my kid brother while
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 5, 2004
The sun is our nearest star. How big is the sun compared to our earth? A million spheres the size of our earth can fit into the sun. How far away is the sun from the earth? 93 million miles. If one inch represented 10 million miles, how far would I have to go before I reached the sun. I could
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 5, 2004
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Win Arn, a leading church consultant conducted a survey:
He surveyed members of nearly a thousand churches asking the question, “Why does the church exit?? The results? Of the church members surveyed, 89 percent said, “The church’s purpose is to take care of my family’s and my needs.? For many,
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 5, 2004
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A dialog from the once-popular sitcom, Seinfield. The dialog takes place between Elaine and her boyfriend.
Elaine asks, “Do you believe in God??
“Yes,?her boyfriend replies.
Elaine asks, “Is it a problem that I’m not religious??
“Not for me,?her
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 5, 2004
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Do you know the truth about forgiveness? One of my professors at Andrews Univ. was telling us that when he was working in Japan as a missionary, he met this one woman who was suffering terribly from guilt. She came to him one day and told him that she had had an abortion many years ago, and that
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 5, 2004
Dr. Brandon Centerwall wrote an article titled “TV and Violence” for the Journal of the American Medical Association vol. 267, no. 22. He found that following the introduction of television in the U.S., the annual white homicide rate increased by 98 percent from 1945 to 1974. While he doesn’t
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 19, 2004
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French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, after visiting America in 1831, said, "I sought for the greatness of the United States in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, her fertile fields, and boundless forests--and it was not there. I sought for it in her rich mines, her vast world commerce, her
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 25, 2004
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Richard Carlson is well-known for his best-selling series of books called Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff. According to this psychologist, happiness comes when we can lessen the gap between what we have and what we want. Our problem is that once we get what we want, we have a bad habit of letting our
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 25, 2004
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A pastor who lived for 18 years in a leper colony tell about an experience where a leper came running in from the field. The leper says to the pastor, “Look, look, one of my fingers fell off.? You are all aware of what happens when you have leprosy. You loose sense of pain, and your limbs begin
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 25, 2004
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There was a military officer who happened to stop by an island in the South Pacific. The military officer discovered that the island was inhabited by cannibals. Cannibals are humans who eat other humans. One day he came cross an old tribal chief. He saw the chief reading the Bible in the
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 25, 2004
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Ten, twenty years ago, we knew what sin was. Sin was sin and we called it by its right name. But in this day, in terms of modern pop psychology, sin is decreasing. What do I mean? A parent who kills their child is not seen as responsible because they themselves have been abused as a child. A
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 25, 2004
Dr. George Wald is a Harvard biologist who won a Nobel Prize. I would like to share with you what he wrote. “What one really needs is not the Nobel prize, but love. How do you think one gets to be a Nobel prize winner? Wanting love, that’s how. Wanting it so bad one works all the time. He
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 25, 2004
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In a book called Living God’s Love, author Douglas Cooper says, “the average person is programmed from birth to love only conditionally. Consequently, we grow up feeling that we have to earn any love we get. Earn it by our good behavior, by agreeing to let
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Contributed by Martin Kim on Nov 1, 2004
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Joni Eareckson, back in July of 1967, at 17 years of age, dove off a diving platform in the Chesapeake Bay. She hit the shallow bottom and broke her neck. She became a quadriplegic. She was paralyzed from the neck down. I will paraphrase what she wrote in one of her books. She writes
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jan 31, 2006
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"During the mighty movements of the Holy Spirit in the Moody-Sankey meetings in Dublin, the worldly father of C.T. Studd was gloriously saved. He invited some of his worldly companions to come to his home so that he could tell them the wonderful news. When one wealthy English sportsman arrived at
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Contributed by Jack Martin on Mar 24, 2007
One way to understand the difference between unsaved, saved but not yet filled with the Holy Spirit, or saved and filled with the Holy Spirit is to think of a dish pan filled with clean water and soap. The clean water likened to the Holy Spirit and the Soap the Word of God that changes our filth.
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