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General Douglas MacArthur, during World War II, famously declared to the people of the Philippine Islands, “I shall return.” This resolute statement was made after he was ordered to leave the Philippines, which were under Japanese invasion.
His promise echoed the determination of our Lord Jesus
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Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 23, 2010
Actress Julia Roberts’ wedding to Daniel Moder featured the vow to “love, support, but not obey.” Will Smith’s vows merely promised good manners. He revealed that in his vows to Jada Pinkett in 1997 “our vows did not promise to forsake all others. The vow that we made was that ‘you will never
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An old Gospel hymn by Annie Johnson Flint sums up today’s message so well for me:
God has not promised skies always blue,
Flower strewn pathways all our lives through;
God has not promised sun without rain,
Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.
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But God has promised strength for the
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Our text from Romans assures us that the Holy Scriptures bring us encouragement and hope. All our hymns we are singing today affirm the encouragement and hope we receive by being “People of One Book.” I read the daily devotional for March 14 in Kenneth W. Osbeck’s devotional guide AMAZING GRACE:
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Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 26, 2008
When I was 14 months old he had a medical ailment, which could have been fatal in the 1960s. The surgeons thought I had no hope and my parents gave him up for dead. They promised God that if I lived, I would minister unto the Lord all the days of his life. The churches all over Delhi prayed for my
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Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Sep 20, 2008
In the not so distant past, was a movement that swept across the country that was started by former Colorado University football coach Bill McCartney, called Promise Keepers. It started small, but before long, hundreds of thousands of men would gather for huge conferences that focused on men
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Contributed by Lacell Sherman on Jul 4, 2001
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SACRIFICING THE SON
There was a Pastor, who after the usual Sunday Evening Hymns, stood up, walked over to the pulpit and, before he gave his sermon for the evening, briefly introduced a guest minister who was in service that evening. In the introduction, the Pastor told the congregation that the
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SOUND THEOLOGY
In a Peanuts cartoon Lucy and Linus are staring out the window, watching it rain. Lucy says, "Boy! Look at it pour. What if it floods the whole world?"
Linus, "It won't. In Gen. 9, God promised Noah that would never happen again. The sign of that promise is the rainbow."
Lucy,
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Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Jun 27, 2005
Unfortunately, the epitaph of many a man is well expressed in the words "Died, age 26; buried, age 64." If you stop learning and growing today, you stop ministering tomorrow. [Dr Howard G.
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Apr 16, 2001
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Last year there was an article in “World” magazine about the Promise Keepers rally in Washington, D.C. Here is a sentence from that article. "If Promise Keepers hasn’t done anything else right in its brief 7-year history, it will still get enormous credit for this: The more Promise Keepers has
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
Consider this example. My father just passed away. He owned a fishing boat. My mother wants to give me my father’s fishing boat. She has promised me the boat. Let’s suppose I go over in a couple of months to get the boat. After I get there she laughs and says, “Oh, I was just kidding, you cannot
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Contributed by Charles Jones on Sep 12, 2011
WISE MEN SEARCHING
In Biblical times wise men searched for the savior. They searched by looking for his star. When they found the star, they knew that God's promise had been fulfilled.
Today, wise men are still searching. They are searching, not necessarily for a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"From Hitlers vision for a Thousand Year Reich and Lenins promise to use the dictatorship of the proletariat to build a workers' paradise, to abortion depicted as a 'womens health issue' and homosexual behavior justified as an 'alternative lifestyle,' evil always comes to humanity disguised as
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Mar 13, 2001
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Ann Landers had an interesting letter in her column. It was from a girl who was writing about her uncle & aunt. She said, "My uncle was the tightest man I’ve ever known. All his life, every time he got paid he took $20 out of his paycheck & put it under his mattress.
Then he got sick & was
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Contributed by William Wyne on Sep 8, 2003
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There is a story told of three little girls who are
enjoying an evening of play. They started playing the
game of counting their money; the object was to see who
had the most and the winner would be crowned queen for
the day. The first little girl counted thirteen
pennies, the second counted
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Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Nov 18, 2006
In the early days of the United States of America a weary traveler came to the banks of the Mississippi River for the first time. There was no bridge. It was early winter, and the surface of the mighty stream was covered with ice. Would he dare cross over? Would the uncertain ice be able to bear
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