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"The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come it is now when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of
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Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Feb 10, 2009
When you used to go to McDonalds and you ordered a coffee you a few choices. Black, Cream, Cream and Sugar. Regular of Decaf.
If you go to McDonalds today you got more choices. They’re now moving forward with McCafe
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Christian Missionary Alliance
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 15, 2010
OUR DEFIANCE
Imagine a molecule...and atom, a proton. The size of that proton might be the size of planet Earth compared to the universe. Now imagine a tiny man on that proton so small that he is equivalent to one man on earth. He is shaking his
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
A MODEL HUSBAND
A husband came down to breakfast and was delighted to hear his wife say, "Darling you are a model husband."
Now he was so flattered by the remark that later on that day he decided to look up the meaning of the word in his Oxford dictionary. He
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Brethren
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
GOD CHANGES THINGS
It was the late Donald Barnhouse the American pastor and author who stunned his congregation by saying, "Prayer changes nothing." The church was packed full of people, yet you could have heard a pin drop. Now his comment was
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Brethren
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The church service ended at the Lutheran Church in New Sweden, Maine as everyone “passed the peace.” It was the first Sunday after Easter, and the 50 people in attendance headed to the fellowship hour to have some coffee. Some of the people complained that the coffee was bitter, but people
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Methodist
Contributed by Steve Malone on Apr 5, 2004
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In my studies this week I came across these words from a book in my office called, The Jesus I Never Knew, by Philip Yancey.
As my class in Chicago read the Gospels and watched movies about Jesus’ life, we noticed a striking pattern: the more unsavory the characters, the more at ease they seemed
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Perryman on May 10, 2006
W.A.Criswell, long-time beloved pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, told a story about an evangelist who loved to hunt. The man bought two setter pups that were topnotch bird dogs. He kept them in his backyard, where he trained them. One morning, an ornery, little, vicious
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 22, 2006
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In a Japanese seaside village over a hundred years ago, an earthquake startled the villagers late one autumn evening. Being so accustomed to earthquakes and not feeling another follow, they soon went back to their activities without giving it another thought.
An old farmer was watching from his
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Fred Craddock tells the following story about his family. "My mother took us to church and Sunday school; my father didn’t go. He complained about Sunday dinner being later when she came home. Sometimes the preacher would call, and my father would say, "I know what the church wants. Church doesn’t
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Disciples Of Christ
Paul never stopped being a ring leader for Jesus and as I have been reading about the founding of this nation in America neither did the Colonial pastor’s in America and the majority of its government leaders.
These ring leaders for Jesus paid the price for their faithfulness to the Gospel and the
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Jul 9, 2001
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Many years ago there was an emperor who was so fond of new clothes that he spent all of his money on them. He did not give himself any concern about his army; he cared nothing about the theater or for driving about in the woods, except for the sake of showing himself off in his new clothes. he
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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When I was at the KTIS pastor’s appreciation dinner last week – Dr. Gary Smalley shared how he was a recovering Hedon. He defined that hedonism is the old playboy philosophy of life. When I typed in the word Hedonism on a google search to attain its definition a website came up called “Hedonistic
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 27, 2008
Illustration: The brick
A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar.
He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.
As his car passed, no children appeared.
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Here is a modern example of the tragedy of not listening, a modern example of the measure you measured with being measured back to you. In this particular case it’s a college girl pleading with parents to listen. But I think I have already said enough to indicate that it has to work both ways. This
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 29, 2010
Everywhere I look people offer me rewards if I buy this or shop at their store, or buy petrol at certain petrol stations. I am rewarded on my credit card if I buy a certain amount using their card. People at the Super Market ask me “Do you have a rewards Card?” Buy one get one free. We bought a
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LOVE IS FACE-TO-FACE
By Erwin Raphael McManus in SOUL CRAVINGS – PREQUEL, pp. 28ff:
"I once met a girl named Kim, and I fell in love. I pursued her with my love and pursed her with my love until I felt my love had captured her heart. So I asked her to be my wife, and she said no." I could feel
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