Contributed by Tim Gibson on May 18, 2001
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Once I was praying for one of my Church members and the Lord gave me a picture of him carrying a sack with something kicking inside it. The Lord’s voice came very clearly saying ’Tell them to offer the person they are carrying as a burden to Me’ - this member said that he had been carrying
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Nov 15, 2002
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IN EVERY SITUATION
There are, in every situation, two factors: there is what happens, and there is how we take what happens.
How we take what happens goes back to what kind of person we are, and what kind of belief we have about life as a whole.
SOURCE: Purpose in Chaos,
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Contributed by Scott Jensen on Dec 18, 2007
C. H. Spurgeon claimed that 98% of the people he met, including criminals he visited in England’s prisons, told him that they believed the Bible to be true. But, the vast majority had never made a personal, life-changing commitment to Jesus Christ. For them, “believe” was not an active
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Lutheran
Contributed by Neil Richardson on Mar 12, 2008
In the film ’The Shawshank Redemption’, the main character Andy Dufresne risks his life by speaking personally to the brutal chief prison guard. But by giving the man some sound financial advice, he secures a break with some beers for his fellow prisoners, although he himself does not drink a
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Baptist
Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 19, 2008
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HEALTHY BENEFITS OF FRIENDSHIP
A in depth study revealed that people with friends enjoy better health, live longer, are happier and find greater fulfilment in life. Time spent with friends will ENRICH our lives & make us healthier – it acts as medicine to help boost the immune system against both
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 9, 2008
Among Christian adults 64% believe male/female cohabitation outside of marriage is acceptable.
55% of Christian adults believe a good person can earn his or her salvation. 44% believe Jesus Christ committed sins while on earth.
91% of students from evangelical churches do not believe in absolute
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on May 17, 2008
The bottom line: if we are going to have God's blessing. If God is to lavishly pour out his goodness in our personal and corporate lives, it includes our response to our financial resources and our willingness to purify our behaviour in this regard. People that do not take God's instruction
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a
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Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
A mother knows she’s been home too long for the following reasons:
1. She begins to talk to Barney as a real person.
2. She forgets which one is real – Mister Rogers or King Friday.
3. She cries for a wedding on Sesame Street.
4. She is one of the congregation
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Church Of God
Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 29, 2011
THE DEFINITION OF GRACE
George Stansberry to a group of Bible college students: "If you leave this service today and see a needy person on the street and give him a dollar, that is unmerited favor. He did nothing to deserve it. But if you leave here and go to your car and find a man breaking
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Napoleon Bonaparte said, "I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius upon
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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Who Is Leading People To Christ? Recent Barna research finds that among Christians who embraced Christ before their teen years, half were led to Christ by their parents, with another 20% by some other friend or relative. 7% accepted Jesus in response to a minister’s personal prompting and 12% cited
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Contributed by Ellis Wedel on Jan 4, 2007
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Are You a Good Showcase?
Gutav Dore, the famous artist, once lost his passport while traveling in Europe. When he came to the boundary post between two countries and was asked for his passport, he fumbled about and finally announced, "I have lost it, but it is all right. I’m Dore, the artist.
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