Contributed by Alan Braun on Mar 22, 2002
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HAGGLING OVER THE PRICE
The author Rudyard Kipling wrote, “If you don’t get what you want, it is a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.”
How badly do you want to reach your potential and fulfill your true purpose in life? Are you hungry
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Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Apr 8, 2002
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Richard Foster:
“Service that is duty-motivated breaths death. Service that flows out of our inward person is life, and joy and peace. The risen Christ beckons us to the ministry of the towel. Perhaps you would like to begin by experimenting with a prayer that a number of us have used. Begin
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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The African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet. Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3-foot wall. The animals will not jump if they cannot see where their feet will fall. Faith is the ability to trust
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Philip Gill on Jan 11, 2003
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I am Baptised!
Apparently Martin Luther, the great 16th figure of the reformation used to take great comfort from these words. When it seemed to him that the whole church had left the precepts of the Gospel, when he was under scrutiny from Church officials as to the truth of his beliefs,
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Anglican
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I remember Billy Graham going on French television and being told by the commentator: "Dr. Graham, you have two minutes to prove to us God exists."
To which Billy Graham replied:
"I can’t do that but I can tell you what I do know:
For God so loved the world that he gave
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 3, 2003
In an article entitled, “Mosaic and Ancient Near Eastern Laws,” (from the www.theology.edu/Eqypt3) we read that the Code of Hammurabbi and the Mosaic code “differ in their moral code.” “In the Hebrew laws, a greater value is generally placed on human life, and the Babylonian code has nothing in it
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Church Of God
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 15, 2003
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Part of a song by Anointed-
if you say you’re sorry for all the stuff you do
Know that he is ready with a second chance for you
Praise the Lord He’s the God of Second Chances
You’ll be floored how His love in life enhances
You can be restored from your darkest
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 2, 2005
"When Spain led the world (in the 15th century), their coins reflected their national arrogance and were inscribed Ne Plus Ultra which meant "Nothing Further" - meaning that Spain was the ultimate in all the world. After the discovery of the New World, they realized that they were not the "end of
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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C.S Lewis: tells the story of a wasp enjoying himself sucking the goodness on the the jam whilst the rest of its body has been decapitated – The wasp continues sucking unknowing to its condition. He says it’s a picture of human nature today we enjoy the sweet pleasures of life yet we fail
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 14, 2007
"What do you want on your Tombstone?,"
Do you remember the 1995 ads where an executioner asks a condemned man. "Cheese and pepperoni," the man replies in a memorable television commercial for the fastest-growing frozen pizza manufacturer in the United States. Seriously what do you want on your
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 18, 2008
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Satan is a terrible taskmaster. Here’s a helpful quotation which summarizes his deceit: ‘He promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honour and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure and pays with pain; he promises profit and pays with loss; he promises life and pays with death’
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Baptist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 15, 2008
Loren Mead: The mission of God and His church is “to see that no pain is unshared, not hurt unnoticed, no hunger untouched, no loss grieved alone, no death unknown, and no joy uncelebrated…The Church is to identify itself with the suffering that creeps into every life, every home, every
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Pentecostal
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