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  • The Tea ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
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    The Tea Cup There was a couple who used to go England to shop in a beautiful store. This was their 25th wedding anniversary. They both liked antiques and pottery and especially tea-cups. They said, "May we see that? We’ve never seen one quite so beautiful." As the lady handed it to them, suddenly ...read more

  • Kids And Global Warming

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 4, 2009
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    KIDS AND GLOBAL WARMING This past April, the Washington Post interviewed a 9-year-old who said the Earth is "just starting to fade away." In 20 years there will be "no oxygen" he said, and he’ll be dead. The Post went on to say, "for many children and young adults, global warming is defining their ...read more

  • Green Efforts

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 4, 2009
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    GREEN EFFORTS The news told of a hotel in California trying to be as "green" as possible. So they took out Gideon bible from the rooms, and put ...read more

  • Abortion And Global Warming?

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 4, 2009
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    ABORTION AND GLOBAL WARMING? The most widely read scientific journals Science and Nature have an article on the effects and dangers of man-made global warming almost weekly. Outlandish statements are rampant, such as: "A well-known environmental spokesperson warns that future sea-level rise will ...read more

  • Jon And Kate Plus 8

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
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    JON AND KATE PLUS 8 The are known from TLC’s show about their lives "Jon and Kate Plus 8." Kate couldn’t have children, so they went to a fertility clinic and had twins. They wanted another one, so they went again. This time she had 7 fertilized eggs. She was told to selectively get rid of ...read more

  • On Dateline Nbc Friday December 26, 2008 ‘a Twist ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
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    On Dateline NBC Friday December 26, 2008 ‘A Twist of Fate’ From Publishers Weekly In a widely reported incident in 2006, Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak, students at an evangelical college in Indiana, and their families were victims of a ghastly mistake: the wrong girl was identified as the ...read more

  • Darwin's Start

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
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    DARWIN'S START It was because of the death of his daughter that Charles Darwin couldn't make sense of a loving God. This seemed to put him on his path to finding a way to take God out of the creation story. (Source: ...read more

  • Good Guys, But Not God's Guys

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
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    GOOD GUYS, BUT NOT GOD'S GUYS It is time for the NFL draft, and NFL teams are about to spend millions of dollars on unknown commodities called college players. Some of them pan out and many don’t. In order to narrow the risk with so much money at stake, they are now looking at the character of ...read more

  • Love Is Patient And Kind. Sometimes We Need To Be ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
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    Love is patient and kind. Sometimes we need to be careful what we say and learn to think on our feet to say positive things about people. The story is told about a 6’ 10 “ Texan who walked up to the counter at McDonalds, slammed down his big fist and said to the girl behind the counter, “I want ...read more

  • Love Them Like Jesus

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
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    LOVE THEM LIKE JESUS Dr Tom Hermiz in his book on Holiness tells of being in a motel room in Columbus Ohio before preaching three times on Sunday at a missionary conference. The people in the next room had a loud party, and at 1 am he called the front desk, and they called the room. But it was ...read more

  • Is It Possible For God To Cleanse Me From All ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Apr 1, 2009
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    “Is it possible for God to cleanse me from all sin and enable me (for any extended period of time) to live above known, willful, and conscious sin?” A young lady asked, who had been raised in a holiness church. Dr Hermiz asked two questions. Is the atonement of Jesus inadequate to enable us to ...read more

  • An Asbury Student On Holiness

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Apr 1, 2009
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    AN ASBURY STUDENT ON HOLINESS page 64 Hermiz, Asbury College Student A student came to Dr Hermiz after a revival at Asbury and said, "I didn’t believe in Holiness, so I went to the library with my bible to prove you wrong. But I couldn’t, so back in my room I prayed to God. 'If this is real ...read more

  • In His Book I Surrender, Patrick Morley Writes ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Apr 1, 2009
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    In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church’s integrity problem is in the misconception “that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior.” ...read more

  • In 1540 Martin Luther's Friend And Assistant, ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 13, 2009
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    In 1540 Martin Luther’s friend and assistant, Frederick Myconius, became sick and he was expected to die. As he lay there on his death bed he wrote a farewell letter to Luther. And when Luther got it he sent back the reply: ‘I command thee in the name of God to live, because I still have need of ...read more

  • Karl Barth (Swiss Theologian) – ‘to Clasp The ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 13, 2009
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    Karl Barth (Swiss theologian) – ‘To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising ...read more

  • Leonard Ravenhill ‘the Church Has Many ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 13, 2009
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    Leonard Ravenhill ‘The church has many organisers, but few agonizers; many who pay, but few who pray; many resters, but few wrestlers; many who are enterprising, but few who are interceding… Tithes build a church, but tears will give it life. That is the difference between the modern church ...read more

  • The Praying ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 14, 2009
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    The praying hands Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely to keep food on the table, the father, who was a goldsmith by profession, had to work almost eighteen hours a day and he took on any other paying work ...read more

  • Jean Nicholas Grou, Who Was A Jesuit Priest In ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 14, 2009
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    Jean Nicholas Grou, who was a Jesuit priest in the 1700s. He wrote, ‘Let your suffering be borne for God; suffer with submission and patience and suffer in union with ...read more

  • One Day, I Woke Early In The Morning To Watch The ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 14, 2009
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    One day, I woke early in the morning to watch the sunrise. Oh the beauty of God’s creation is beyond description. As I watched, I praised God for His beautiful work. As I sat there, I felt the Lord’s presence with me. He asked me, "Do you love me?" I answered, "Of course, God! You are my Lord and ...read more

  • The Salvation Army Was Holding A Convention. ...

    Contributed by Paul Green on Jul 14, 2009
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    The Salvation Army was holding a convention. Morale was at an all-time low. The organization had hit rock bottom. They did not know what to do. They sent a telegram to their founding father, William Booth, asking for any advice he could give on how they could get back on their feet. William Booth ...read more