Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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I had been teaching my three-year old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord’s Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime, she would repeat after me the lines from the prayer. Finally, she decided to go solo. I listened with pride as she carefully enunciated each word, right up to the end of the prayer: "Lead
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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And one particular four-year old prayed, "And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Dec 9, 2005
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I know one or two children who are really very good indeed at talking! They can talk about almost anything under the sun, but when it comes to listening they struggle. As soon as someone else starts to talk, they begin again and an hour later they are still talking, and it is not possible to say
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Contributed by Lee Johnson on Dec 9, 2005
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Jimmy Stewart shared the story about the filming of the movie, It’s a Wonderful Life. “It’s hard to explain. I, for one, had things happen to me during the filming that never happened in any other picture I’ve made. In one scene, for example, George Bailey is faced with unjust criminal charges
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, and love without weakness.
Jim Elliot, quoted in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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In one region of Africa, the first converts to Christianity were very diligent about praying. In fact, the believers each had their own special place outside the village where they went to pray in solitude. The villagers reached these “prayer rooms” by using their own private footpaths through the
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"It becomes the disciples of Christ to apply themselves to him for instruction in prayer. Lord, teach us to pray, is itself a good prayer, and a very needful one, for it is a hard thing to pray well and it is Jesus Christ only that can
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer- meeting. If weak in prayer
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
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"We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few
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