WHAT IS SPIRITUAL MATURITY?
In our Pueblo group we asked how we could define spiritual maturity? Someone said, "Being spiritually mature probably means you don't try to figure out whether the people around you are spiritually mature or not."
Someone else said, "It's all I can do to figure
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Feb 19, 2011
BETTER INFLUENCE
A Peanuts cartoon showed Peppermint Patty talking to Charlie Brown in which she said, "Guess what, Chuck? The first day of school, and I got sent to the principal’s office. It was your fault, Chuck."
Charlie Brown responds, "My fault? How could it be my fault? Why do you say
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Brethren
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 12, 2011
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ARMY OF THE LORD
A friend was in front of me coming out of church one day, and the preacher was standing at the door as he always is to shake hands. He grabbed my friend by the hand and pulled him aside.
The Pastor said to him, "You need to join the Army of the Lord!"
My friend replied, "I'm
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Contributed by Eugene Morell on Oct 13, 2011
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NO FORGIVENESS OVER DINNER
In "What’s so Amazing About Grace," Philip Yancey tells a story about a man and wife who one night had an argument about how supper was to be cooked. The argument was so heated that they slept in separate rooms. Neither approached the other to say "I’m sorry" or to offer
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Oct 17, 2011
ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS
A friend once asked Isidor I. Rabi, a Nobel prize winner in science how he became a scientist. Rabi replied that every day after school his mother would talk to him about his school day. She wasn’t so much interested in what he had learned that day, but she always inquired,
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
50-SOMETHINGS FOR JESUS
At the age of 58, Tom and Elaine Samply cashed out their retirements and moved to the Czech Republic and opened a coffee shop called Common Grounds where he taught business principles to atheists. After they were there for six years, they had enough business that they
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Annie Armstrong was called indefatigable. She never tired of serving God and serving People. In 1893 because of her belief in the powerful hand of God to change lives and our world she wrote over 18,000 letters many by hand.
She was the driving force in founding the lottie Moon Christmas offering,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 2, 2007
The murder/suicide of Chris Benoit (Professional Wrestler)is a vivid example of how decisions we make affect our families.
Obviously in Benoit’s case his decisions have left his parents mourning the death of their son (the one who did the killing and suicide)and grandson. His wife’s parents are
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Jul 26, 2007
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It is not wrong when we seek the favor of men, however, it is most important we strife to have the favor of God in our lives. How?
1. Study the Word of God.
2. Be a doer of the Word.
3. Pray daily and be filled continually with His Holy Spirit.
4. Then you can be led of the Spirit.
5. Tell others
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Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Aug 22, 2007
Mothers are the first to teach the children. Those kids will mimic you; that’s how they learn.
A wife invited some people to dinner.
At the table, she turned to their six-year-old daughter and said,
"Would you like to say the blessing?"
"I wouldn’t know what to say," the girl replied.
"Just
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 16, 2007
You will have had your own experiences of being in the dark, wanting light. Do you remember August 14, 2003?It was the night the lights went out in Ontario and the Northeastern and Midwestern United States. It affected 10 million of us in Ontario alone, marking the largest black-out in Northern
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Salvation Army
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Illustration: My timer is set for 30 minutes again: You may be thinking, “How many people will die in the world in 30 minutes?” The answer is 3,240 people. But here is a major problem - It is estimated that only 7% of the world’s population is ready to go to Heaven. That means 3,024 go to Hell
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Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
b. Last week a couple with two children and a grandmother stopped by for some assistance. They were traveling from Tennessee to Charleston, SC and I wondered how they ended up at our church. They had stopped several places and been told no or redirected somewhere else. The wife said they were at
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
Larry Kiser – The joy of sacrificial giving to the Lord’s work is one value easily lost in the presence of prosperity. I regularly saw my parents give beyond what was comfortable for them. I don’t know how frequently my children see me give sacrificially to God’s kingdom. Proverbs 3:9 tells us to
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
A Gallup poll conducted some years ago revealed that 60 percent of Americans did not know what "the Holy Trinity" was. Sixty-six percent couldn’t say who delivered the Sermon on the Mount, and 79 percent were unable to name a single Old Testament prophet.
How is your Bible knowledge? Do you
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