Contributed by John Akosile on May 28, 2008
"...Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices." He wants to control you. He wants that kind of power
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Ethan Sayler on Aug 5, 2002
Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, once shared that his father, a pastor of a 15 member church in Sulfur, TX, was known as the man with no leather on the toes of his shoes. The reason he had no leather on the toes of his shoes was that he spent three or four hours a day
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Mick Court on Jun 22, 2008
Thomas Merton writing to Dorothy Day –
“To some this quote will mean nothing, to others it describes an important stage in the journey .... We should in a way fear for our perseverance because there is a big hole in us, an abyss, and we have to fall through it into emptiness, but the Lord will
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Catholic
Contributed by Tony Abram on Oct 7, 2008
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Our churches today need to be a spiritual house. Many times our churches have become a social house where as one old preacher said:
We traded our upper room into the board room,
the fire of the Holy Spirit for a warm heater,
our prayer meetings for chicken dinners,
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Sep 4, 2023
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Great multitudes will follow as long as there is no price to be paid, no contract to sign, no commands to obey, no orders to follow, no sacrifices to surrender, no gifts to offer, no commitments to keep, no burdens to bear, no suffering to share, no hardship to handle, no effort to exert, no pills
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Contributed by Timothy Mills on Oct 13, 2002
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Jesus and Satan had an arguement before God about which one could type on a computer faster and better. God commanded a contest. Satan was typing so fast that the keyboard was smoking, and sparks were flying from his fingertips. Jesus was not behind, but he kept doing something else that Satan
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Contributed by W F on Sep 15, 2004
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I recently had to clean up some brickwork at home. New bricks had been laid and I had to clean off the excess cement. So I bought a litre of hydrochloric acid and mixed it at about ½ litre to a bucket of water. This was just the right amount to keep the acid effective in cleaning the brickwork
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Contributed by Bart Leger on Feb 2, 2005
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"Eternal life in the future tense is eternity in heaven with God. Eternal life in the present tense is knowing God personally now. Eternal life in the present breaks through limitations and experiences the best that life can offer. Many Christians miss that. We do our duty as believers, but no
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 25, 2005
In the highly rated Smallville, the WB’s story of Superboy, Clark Kent is just learning about his super powers. It is a perplexing and frustrating time for him. His powers really come to light when he is accidently run down by Lex Luthor and yet is unhurt. Not only is he spared any pain but is able
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Christian Church
Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jul 22, 2009
AN AFFLICTED LIFE CAN SAVE
Or consider the young lady suffering with terminal cancer. It’s a painful and hopeless disease. But instead of complaints and self-pity, she openly talked about her hope of eternal life in Jesus, about the inheritance in heaven Jesus won for her by dying on the cross,
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Lutheran
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A few years ago, the “in-thing” for the 6 year-old set was a group of teenage super-heroes called the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. They were an unlikely hit- originally produced with a very low budget in Japan, then badly dubbed into English. But their appeal was that- while ordinary teenagers by
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Christian/Church Of Christ