Contributed by John Weeks on Dec 9, 2006
I have visited Japan three times in the past several years. It is a fascinating place of great contrasts – primarily – great beauty contrasted with great sadness. You see from my observation, the Japanese culture is one of materialism, self-satisfaction, rigid order and sexism – all of this
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JESUS LOVES ME
"Jesus Loves Me" is one of the most well-known Christian hymns. This hymn was originally a poem that was included in a novel. The poem was spoken to a dying child to bring them comfort. A musician later added the music, and since 1860 it has become one of the most well-known
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Lutheran
Contributed by Jay Winters on Jan 13, 2008
In 1865 Walt Whitman, an American poet wrote one of the most familiar lines of poetry in the world, in the opening lines of his poem, “Song of Myself.”
In that poem, Walt Whitman speaks as I can only imagine Jesus will speak on that day that He returns to every one of us here Baptized into His
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Lutheran
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 12, 2002
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[Gandhi Can’t Compare to Christ, Citation: Michael Green, The Message of Matthew (IVP, 2000), p. 141]
Author Michael Green writes:
Only Jesus fully understands God the Father.
Great people have discovered and taught many true and noble things about God.
Nobody has known him with the intimacy of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
U.S. Population The U.S. is the fastest growing industrialized nation in the world, growing by 2.8 million people a year (a fertility rate of 2.05). Although 12% of the U.S. population is 65 or older, higher fertility rates and immigration keep America younger than Europe. About 40% of our
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Sep 26, 2011
MARRIED PEOPLE NEED FRIENDS
The University of Chicago conducted a study where they found that couples that stayed together through adversity had friends who wanted them to stay together and who had a low opinion of divorce. By contrast, married people who spend time with divorced and bitter people
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 6, 2007
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Believers throughout church history – the early church fathers, the Reformers, the Puritans – have been inspired by Scripture to reduce spiritually to two lists known as “the seven deadly sins and the seven virtues” of saintliness. The sin list includes pride, envy, anger, sloth, avarice, gluttony
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Pentecostal
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A dear lady in the church I serve shared with me a poem she cut out of a magazine over 60 years ago. It has the spirit of what Dr. Graham’s mother felt about being a mother:
A Mother’s Prayer
Sing me no eulogy of praise,
Give me no hallowed stool;
Just let me be my children’s friend,
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Fanny Crosby, blinded by an illness at 6 weeks of age, would grow to write over 9,000 poems and hymns. One of her many hymns begin this way:
Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it,
Redeemed by the blood of the
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
Canadian poet John McCrae was a surgeon in World War I. On December 8, 1915, he published this poem to commemorate the deaths of thousands of young men who died in Flanders during the grueling battles there.
Flanders covered southern Belgium and northwest France.)
Legend has it that he was
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Pentecostal
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Come with me if you will to the snow covered mountain paths of Oberndorf, a small village in Austria.
It is a cold Christmas Eve morning in 1818.
As you look across the mountains you will see the local vicar Father Joseph Mohr (1792-1848), winding his way along the path to the village of Arndorf
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Anglican
Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Apr 8, 2002
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The whole area of service is a very important one in the Christian life. The importance can be seen in the difference between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea in the Holy Land. The two bodies of water are connected by the Jordan River in a direct north-south line along the Great Rift Valley.
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John Sutherland Bonnell, the great preacher of a generation ago, has suggested five questions which are useful in evaluating Christian effectiveness and commitment.
Look Closely at them to judge your strengths and weaknesses as a disciple of Christ.
1. Does my life witness each day to the power of
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