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d. An old violin player explained why his violin had such quality. It was made from a certain kind of European tree, but not all of these trees would do. "The trees in the forest, sheltered by their neighbors, will not do," he said. "Fine violins come from lonely trees that grows on the
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Contributed by David Sorn on Nov 5, 2005
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Too often all we ever do is focus on the external problem that we can see. In front of us we have a row of dominoes. Imagine for a second that the last domino is your outward sin. The time you gossiped, swore, or pushed a kid in school. However, you will notice that there are many, many things
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Contributed by C Jordan on Dec 22, 2007
“For most churches, very little of what we do is dependent upon the Holy Spirit. If He were not to show up, most churches would never miss Him. Billy Graham is credited with saying, “95% of today’s church activities would continue if the Holy Spirit were removed from us. In the early Church, 95%
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
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Would you believe me if I told you that the square root of orange is turquoise? or
If I told you to always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else.
or that 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Or maybe that you can do more with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
Doubt
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Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
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I Want to Stay With You
That reminds me of what happened one Sunday after a Child Dedication service. As a young family was driving away from church after the dedication of their baby, little Johnny, the older brother, cried all the way home in the back seat of the car. His mother asked him three
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The late Sam Shoemaker, an Episcopalian bishop, summed up the situation this way: "In the Great Commission the Lord has called us to be--like Peter--fishers of men. We've turned the commission around so that we have become merely keepers of the aquarium.
Occasionally I take some fish out
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Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 25, 2025
Martin Luther wrote about seeing two mountain goats meeting on a mountain trial that was narrow enough for only one to travel on.
When they met up, Luther thought for sure they would butt heads and the strongest would survive. One would die and one would be injured.
Instead, when the mountain
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We need to look at storms and painful scenarios in a different light. Possibly God’s light? Wirt helps us to see through a difference lens in his book Jesus Man of Joy.Sherwood Wirt has this to say about the positive side of pain:
Pain does have this positive value. It will bring to halt our
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
IMAGINARY JESUS
Matt Mikalatos has written a fictional story entitled, "Imaginary Jesus." In that story the main character encounters a wide variety of people who claim to be Jesus, but who actually represent our diverse and ever-changing depictions of who we want Jesus to be and the roles we want
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