Contributed by Tim Smith on Jun 16, 2013
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Dave Navarro has written an article entitled, "The 5 People Who Secretly Control Your Life." In it, he says, what you may not realize is just how many people influence your life, feeding you ideas about what is "right," "wrong," "good," "bad," and practically every other subjective decision-making
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 15, 2021
In 1983, one man prevented a nuclear war between the USSR and the USA. Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile had been launched from the United States, followed by up to five more.
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 13, 2022
Jacob was told to lay down his idols and come back home to Bethel to serve God. Is there an idol in your life that you need to forsake. How do you know if something is an idol in your life? Here are 3 ways we can we identify or recognize the idols in our lives:
1. The feeling of: If I have
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 8, 2009
William Barclay said: "In the Christian life we have the presence of Jesus. He is...the goal of our journey and the companion of our way...the one
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Contributed by David Tack on Jul 30, 2009
A surgeon may take a man’s life into his hands and perform a most delicate operation on his brain. But that is nothing compared to a pastor, who has people’s spiritual well-being in his hands. It is the difference, not just a
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Contributed by Gerald Steffy on Aug 28, 2009
Corrie ten Boom lived through the terrible life of Nazi concentration camps, a place where hope was lost for many people. She survived to tell her story of unfaltering faith and tight-fisted hope in God. She saw the face of evil up close and personal. She saw some of the most atrocious and
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Contributed by Chris Gowen on Jan 17, 2010
Noah walked with God because his life was lined up with God's ways. No one can walk together except they be agreed. Two men were trying to get a piece of furniture through a doorway. After much frustration and energy was expended, the men stopped and looked at each other with a puzzled look. It was
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I sold life insurance for many years, and since that time I have presided at many funerals. Few of those souls knew when they were going to die. The elderly grandmother didn’t know that her grandson was going to kill her for some drug money. The three boys I gave diplomas to didn’t know that
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IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER- by Erma Bombeck
(written after she found out she was dying from cancer).
I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day.
I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose
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Contributed by Mark Haines on Apr 15, 2011
You did not make the cross effective in your life by faith. The cross became effective in our life by
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 13, 2025
[081]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FIERY BIRTH OF LIFE
THIS POEM IS STRICTLY COPYRIGHT. IT MUST NOT BE ALTERED OR TAKEN. IF IT IS USED I WOULD APPRECIATE KNOWING THAT. The use in the Lord’s service is why I wrote it.
I have had some of my efforts stolen and reproduced in other’s names. This has
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 20, 2025
[232]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - REFLECTIONS ON THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
The poem explores some aspects of our faith. Each stanza makes a statement beginning with "What".
STANZA 1 – Christ is glorified, and one day we will share in that glory.
STANZA 2 – As perfect Man Jesus helps us in our
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Contributed by Timothy Archer on Feb 27, 2004
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I learned a great life lesson once from some scraggly college kid whose name I don’t even know. I was 8 or 9 years old and was taking swimming lessons from the Red Cross. The day came for our swim test to pass from Advanced Beginners to Intermediate, and we each took our turn trying to do the
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Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Jun 14, 2011
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I WISH I COULD LIVE LIFE OVER AGAIN
I remember when I was an assistant pastor in TN visiting a man who had lived his whole life in sin and selfishness. He finally came to the Lord in his sixties. When he was diagnosed with cancer, I went to visit him at his home shortly before his death.
The day
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Contributed by Daniel Owens on Jan 8, 2008
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I heard a story about a 98 year old man who had been a Christian for years and years.
He was 98 years old and someone asked him,
"Is it easier to live the Christian life NOW, than when you were younger?"
And this old Christian gentleman
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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