Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 1, 2013
RENEWAL AND NEW LIFE
Henry David Thoreau, in his classic book, Walden, told of a powerful custom of the Mucclasse Indians. Once each year, they had a village clean up called a "busk." First they would make new clothes for themselves as well as furniture and cooking utensils. They would keep all
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The exact dimensions of the New Heaven are measured by an angel and reported to be 12,000 stadia, the equivalent of 1,400 miles or 2,200 kilometers, in length, width, and height (Revelation 21:15-16). Even though these proportions may have symbolic importance, this doesn’t mean they can’t be
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 13, 2007
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New Every Morning
Yea, “new every morning,” though we may awake,
Our hearts with old sorrow beginning to ache;
With old work unfinished when night stayed our hand
With new duties waiting, unknown and unplanned;
With old care still pressing, to fret and to vex,
With new problems rising, our minds
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 25, 2007
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“Encouraging” The New Members
“Bill and Sue” had recently moved into the city, and had been visiting our church for several weeks. They made friends quickly, and possessed a variety of gifts and talents that would enhance the ministries of our church. Within a short time they decided that God would
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Jan 2, 2008
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Under New Management
A certain Army man had been a heavy drinker for 35 years. For all those years he had been angry; angry with everyone and everything. Finally, he encountered Christ and his whole life changed.
He was speaking once before a group of medical people. He told them of his
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A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other! In fact, here are some startling stats about typical resolutions for the new year in America:
• 27% break their resolutions by the first week of January.
• 31% lose their resolutions by the second week of January.
• 41%
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 31, 2001
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NEW ORLEANS (BP)--An explosive new study says some gay people can turn straight if they really want to. Robert L. Spitzer, a psychiatry professor at Columbia University who led the study, said he couldn’t estimate what percentage of highly motivated gay people can change their sexual orientation
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Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
We live, I believe, in a new time, a new age, in which the old ways and practices no longer work. This is 2009, not 1959 nor 1969 nor 1979 nor 1989 or even 1999. The assumptions about Christianity and the Church,
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