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It’s as impossible to imitate or copy Kingdom life without Kingdom birth as it is for a fish to live out of water and breathe air like a human being. It is not a matter of trying harder – or attending “fish church”. That poor fish can try and try till it is blue in the gills and it
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United Methodist
Contributed by Louis Gibson on Jun 28, 2010
B.C. = BAD COMMUNICATION
Poor communication can led to all kinds of misunderstandings.
A rather old fashioned lady was planning a couple of weeks vacation in Florida. She also was quite delicate and elegant with her language. She wrote a letter to a particular campground and asked for
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Contributed by Rob Morton on Jun 5, 2001
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In 1993, social scientist Nicholas Zill reported that children of divorced parents are, regardless of their economic circumstances, more likely to have poor relationships with their parents, drop out of high school and receive psychological help.
Uses the following statistics to support his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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A pastor had gathered a selected group of workers to train them to witness for Jesus. A young worker was complaining to a veteran caller about one of the people he had visited. "I’ tried to tell him about Jesus, I tried to tell him about the love Jesus had for Him. I tried to tell him that Jesus
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 26, 2008
John Suk writes, “Soldiers of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst from her Berkeley, California, apartment on February 4, 1974. In return for her release, Patty’s kidnappers demanded that her father, Randolph Hearst, give millions of dollars to the poor.
“On
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Baptist
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 3, 2001
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One family habitually prayed, "Come Lord Jesus be our guest and let this food to us be blessed. Amen" One day the smallest boy in the family looked up at his Dad and said, "Dad, every evening we ask Jesus to come and be our guest, but He never comes. His Father said, "We can only wait for Him to
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 5, 2009
TRUE POVERTY
The second theme in our passage is to strengthen and support the weak and the suffering. My friend at the Gazette also mentioned visiting his daughter in Kenya when she was a Peace Corp volunteer out in the desert areas in the western part of the country. He said that trip had
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 25, 2002
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The great Scottish Bible expositor Alexander MacLaren once wrote: ‘we may have as much of God as we will. Christ puts the key of the treasure-chamber into our hand, and bids us take all that we want. If a man is admitted into the bullion vault of a bank and
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Mennonite
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
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Toyohiko Kagawa, the Japanese Christian who spent his life working with and for the poor, was speaking at Princeton. When he finished his talk, one student said to another, "He didn’t say much, did he?" A woman sitting nearby leaned
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Toyohiko Kagawa, the Japanese Christian who spent his life working with and for the poor, was speaking at Princeton. When he finished his talk, one student said to another, "He didn’t say much, did he?" A woman sitting nearby leaned
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 22, 2012
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NOT ALLOWED TO DIE
Back in March of 2008, the mayor of a city in SW France had a problem. It seems his village was running out of space. Not in housing, nor in the retail district, nor even at City Hall. It seems they were running out of space... in the cemetery. There was no room for any more
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 4, 2008
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Shane Claiborne tells about how his little community of faith received some money. First, they won a lawsuit against the police of New York for misconduct. Shane with several hundred people had protested the arresting of people for sleeiping outside by sleeping outside. They were arrested, charged,
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Church Of God
Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 6, 2006
Statue of Liberty- “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
Shouldn’t that be the
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