Contributed by Brian Harvison on Nov 12, 2008
While using this illustration you need a clear pitcher with a small amount of diluted coffee in it, and a pitcher of clear water to pour into the coffee to illustrate the point
Jesus Christ gives us living water (John 4).
So water mixed with dirt makes mud.
So when we are saved we receive the
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Contributed by Martyn Baxter on Nov 23, 2008
That is us too, so often. We have the scriptures, we know of its authenticity and yet we fail to live by its teaching. We live in a land of plenty where we fail to go without all we need and more, look on your television sets at home for a reminder, yet we fail to give thanks. We experience the
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Methodist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 24, 2008
The recent problems in our economy can be used as a wakeup call for us all. Maybe this current anxiety will turn many eyes toward God. The church is often at its best in tragedy and calamity. In 1867, many banks and factories were closing in America. Because of these problems, Jeremiah Lanphier
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by John Davis on Dec 3, 2008
A traveler was found by a U.S. customs agent to be carrying a 1/2 gallon bottle in from Mexico, the official asked the man what it contained? The Traveler replied, it’s just holy water from a shrine I visited, the inspector was suspicious, opened the bottle and sniffed, He shouted, this isn’t holy
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Pentecostal
The Holy Father reminds us of the words of St. Cyril: we "call upon God in his mercy to send his Holy Spirit upon the offerings before us, to transform the bread into the body of Christ and the wine into the blood of
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Catholic
Contributed by Chris Surber on Jan 20, 2009
There is a place near where Christina and I used to live in Florida, called Wall Spring Park. When Sebastian was a baby and then very little and first beginning to walk, she and I would regularly take him there. We would often push him the stroller around this beautiful pathway which had been
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Christian Church
Contributed by Todd Leupold on Feb 3, 2009
To use an analogy, salvation only opens the door to God's University of True Wisdom. It remains up to each of us to choose to attend His classes, study His teachings, follow His mentors, and pass His exams by fully and correctly applying what we have learned. This is what it means to 'have the mind
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Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 11, 2009
“The real question is not whether God loves us, but whether He approves of us, whether we are pleasing to Him. One thing is certain: if we are not pleasing to God, He will never
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ii. Bienvenn tell us, “When it comes to instruction on how we should speak to one another there is one verse in the Bible that says it all: ‘Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Feb 28, 2009
The US Peace Corps train their workers to deal with any kind of eventuality they might meet in the field, and since they work in the jungles of South America, it’s quite possible that they might encounter an Anaconda, the largest snake in the world. A full grown Anaconda is not just a snake. It is
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Anglican
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 6, 2009
As a child at church camp, a missionary told us the story of a missionaries traveling into a remote village that was rarely visited by outsiders. Living as their ancient ancestors did, the people were fascinated with motorized vehicles and electricity. These missionaries brought in a generator to
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on May 6, 2009
Religion of itself will only make us like the Pharisees, a contradiction of Christianity. No man can save himself. Nothing that we can offer can change a sinner to a saint! I remember seeing a carton showing a scholarly man sitting on top of a great pile of books, looking at himself in a mirror,
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Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 7, 2009
"A sculptor does not use a manicure set to reduce the rude, unshapely marble to a thing of beauty. The saw, the hammer and the chisel are cruel tools, but without them the rough
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