Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Nov 16, 2007
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One morning a deacon was asked to go to the airport and meet the preacher who was coming to his church to conduct a revival. He went but was not sure as to what the preacher looked like. He carefully examined the passengers as they exited the plan. He was anxious to pick up the man he was to
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Nov 7, 2004
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Several years ago, I read Patrick Morley’s book “Walking with Christ in the Details of Life.” It is a book of meditations that includes one called “Revival: The Gospel of Addition.” In it, he said the following, “The American gospel has evolved into a gospel of addition without subtraction. It is
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Contributed by Todd Brock on Nov 13, 2008
Several years ago, Patrick Morley wrote a book called, “Walking with Christ in the Details of Life.” It is a book of meditations that includes one called “Revival: The Gospel of Addition.” In it, he said the following, “The American gospel has evolved into a gospel of addition without subtraction.
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 7, 2010
Brethren, if we will do God’s work in God’s way at God’s time with God’s power, we shall have God’s blessing and the devil’s curses. When God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil will open the door of hell to blast us. God’s smile means the devil’s frown! Mere preachers may help
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This last week I started reading the book, “Pivotal Praying,” - Connecting with God in times of great need. The book is written by John Hull and Tim Elmore. The book has been enlightening to say the least but in chapter 5 Tim shares about how important it is to run to God in prayer when we find
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 15, 2009
GOD SHOWS UP IN THE HUMBLEST DWELLINGS
Tommy Welchel describes the miracles of Azusa Street:
"The thought that God visited us in a barn to introduce His Son...confounds the minds of scholars a skeptics. These miracles were happening in and old, run-church that once used to house animals. By the
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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LETTING PEOPLE DROWN?
The Times-Reporter of New Philadelphia, Ohio, reported in September, 1985 a celebration of a New Orleans municipal pool.
The party around the pool was held to celebrate the first summer in memory without a drowning at the New Orleans city pool. In honor of the occasion, 200
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Contributed by John Shearhart on May 24, 2006
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“Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.”
Henry, Matthew
In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 9, 2007
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Spiritual Leadership
Samuel Logan Brengle said: Spiritual leadership is not won by promotion, but by prayers and tears. It is attained by much heart-searching and humbling before God; by self-surrender, a courageous sacrifice of every idol, a bold, uncompromising, and uncomplaining embracing of
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on May 22, 2010
“Not Always the Same Method”
The Spirit is like the wind. There is mystery, there is power, and we cannot chart the course of the Spirit. He is sovereign to do as He pleases, just as the wind blows where it lists.
He did not use the same method or manner with Knox and Luther and Wesley and
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 27, 2007
In Robert Duvall’s movie, The Apostle, there is a scene of a revival tent meeting where the evangelist has this great big bunch of keys and begins screaming that he has the “keys to the kingdom.” He jingles them in the faces of people to encourage people to respond to his message and to Jesus and
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Most people associate missions with leaving for another city, country, or continent. This is because, technically speaking, we refer to those who have crossed cultural, ethnic, or geographic lines in order to share about Jesus as missionaries.
However, mission work includes more than rain forest
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There is a tomb of unknown soldiers in America which has a guard 24 hours a day. Every hour on the hour, 365 days a year, a new soldier reports for duty. When the new guard arrives, he receives his orders from the one who is leaving. The words are always the same: “Orders Remain Unchanged.”
The
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The preacher had been delivering a dry, long-winded discourse, completely oblivious to the time, to a restless, bored congregation.
As the preacher continued his long, drawn-out sermon, he was quickly brought down to earth as a small boy sitting on the front pew yelled out to his weary mother,
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