Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 11, 2001
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I once read something that said if you wanted to trace anger back to its source, just use AHEN.
I don’t mean a chicken, but the acronym A-H-E-N
When you see Anger (the “A”) it is usually covering a Hurt (the “H”)
If you peek under that Hurt, you’ll see you had an
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jun 16, 2001
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C S Lewis, in his book "The Screwtape Letters", imagined that he could overhear what a chief tempter in Hell was saying: "It will be an ill day for us," the tempter says, "if what most humans mean by ’Religion’ ever vanished from the Earth. It can still send us the truly delicious sins. The fine
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Baptist
Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 1, 2007
Lester Lecroy was one of 12 children. He grew up in a home of very meager means. He was a rambunctious, but dependable young man. While cooling off after a hard days work in a creek at a little place we called the Iron Bridge on Cotton Hill Road in Eufaula, Alabama Lester Lecroy lost his life at
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 19, 2007
Worthy of praise is actually one word, our word "Halal." The word can mean to shine, to praise, to boast, or to be worthy of praise, as in this instance.
A good illustration would be a piece of iron that is magnetized. The magnet comes across iron shavings that are immediately drawn to it. God is
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Richard Goble on Feb 17, 2008
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The Bible is a universe of revelation facts which have no meaning for us until we are born from above; when we are born again we see in it what we never saw before. We are lifted into the realm where Jesus lives and we begin to see what he sees. Oswald Chambers (1874-1917). Edythe Draper, Draper’s
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Baptist
Contributed by Joe La Rue on Feb 21, 2008
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Just this past week (Feb 17-23, 2008), a new book was published by self-styled spiritual guru Deepok Chopra called “The Third Jesus.” In this book, Chopra wrote, “I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as he proclaimed, a saviour. Not the saviour, not the one and only Son of God.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 18, 2009
INTELLIGENCE ISN'T ALWAYS SMART
A French nuclear submarine and an English nuclear submarine ran into each other without knowing it this week. Clearly, having modern technology and intelligence does not mean you are smart. You would think with all the technology and intelligence in the world, our
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 12, 2007
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Dr. Michael. Denton, senior research fellow in human molecular genetics at the university of Otago in New Zealand has concluded, “ All the evidence available in the biological sciences supports the core proposition…. That the cosmos is a specially designed whole with life and mankind as its
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Baptist
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 14, 2007
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Dr. Michael. Denton, senior research fellow in human molecular genetics at the university of Otago in New Zealand has concluded, “ All the evidence available in the biological sciences supports the core proposition…. That the cosmos is a specially designed whole with life and mankind as its
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Baptist
Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jan 29, 2013
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WE ARE LIKE WHAT WE WORSHIP
N.T. Wright observes, we "become like what we worship; we take on the character of our object of worship. Those who worship money become, eventually, human calculating machines. Those who worship sex become obsessed with their own attractiveness or prowess. Those who
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Congregational
Contributed by Tim Smith on May 12, 2013
WORDS CAN KILL
Matt Roush in USA Today writes, "The tongue has the power of life and death..."
That may sound a bit extreme. I mean how can words kill anyone? But consider Karen Carpenter, the popular singer from the 1970’s who died in 1983 of heart failure as a result of complications with
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Methodist
Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 26, 2009
Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was impeached by the state House by a 114 to one vote. After racing back to his Chicago home before the vote could deprive him of a ride home on the state plane, Blagojevich once again said he was the victim of a rush to judgment.
"And the fight goes on," he told
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Christian Missionary Alliance
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WESLEY’S CONVERSION
John Wesley become a priest in the Church of England before he had become a Christian. His conversion story is very interesting:
Not long after the first Moravian missionaries came from Germany, Wesley had left for the West Indies, Wesley found himself on board a ship with a
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Anglican