Contributed by Clyde Grimes on Jan 7, 2003
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One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
’Tis the set of the sail and not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through life:
’Tis the set of
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Christian Missionary Alliance
Contributed by Mark Hensley on Feb 13, 2003
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An average person’s anxiety is focused on:
40% -- things that will never happen
30% -- things about the past that can’t be changed
12% -- things about criticism by others, mostly untrue
10% -- about health,
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Baptist
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on May 7, 2003
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OUR PERSISTENT PRAYER
Billy Graham said, “Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask.” Have faith in the God of the dream; let’s ask God to bring the dream to completion. God’s answer is ready;
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Denn Guptill on Sep 15, 2003
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Two little boys were walking home from Sunday School where the lesson had been on the Devil and one asked the other “What do you think of this devil business?” “Well” replied the other boy, “You know
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 15, 2003
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A reporter was interviewing an old man on his 100th birthday. ?What are you most proud of?? he asked.
?Well,? said the man, ?I don?t have an enemy in the world.?
?What a beautiful thought! How inspirational!? said the reporter.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2004
Nobel-laureate George Wald wrote:
“One has only to wait: time itself performs the miracles. Given so much time the impossible becomes possible, the possible probable, and that probable virtually certain.”
R.C. Sproul, Not a Chance: The Myth
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Nov 8, 2004
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You often hear, “There are 2 kinds of people in the world. Those who see the glass ½ full and those who see the glass ½ empty.” I believe there is another. The discourager who complains that it isn’t bottled water. You know the
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Baptist
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The Christmas tree:
It was on a Tree that God hung His greatest gift to humankind. The Christmas tree is symbolic of a broken curse, its evergreen branches representing everlasting life. Our exchange of gifts isn’t a surrender to commercialism, but
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Noah Kaye on Apr 21, 2005
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• William Booth tied faith and works together perfectly when He said this in an article in Christianity Today “Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then
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Mennonite
Contributed by Stanley Arnold on Jun 6, 2005
There is a story of a clergyman who pridefully was musing about what a fine preacher he had become. So he said to his wife, "How many really great preachers do you think there are?" She thought for a minute and
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Sep 26, 2005
PERSPECTIVE ON TROUBLES
A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too
close to your eye, and it fills the whole world andputs everything out of focus. Hold it at proper viewing distance, and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet,
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Baptist
Contributed by Pat Cook on Nov 21, 2005
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Julie Andrews said, “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” Newt Gingrich said, “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” And Walter Elliott said,
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