Ruth Tucker in her book "God Talk" tell the story of a former student whose daughter was in an accident and in a coma… while she wrestled with the thought of losing her daughter, she says this, “Immediately I thought of the Father giving up His Son for me. I knew. I was being called to open my
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 26, 2004
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LIFE GIVING LOVE
Here is Ruth, a young widow, who chooses a life of singleness, not because she has no choice, but out of love for Naomi. She could have returned to her own people like Orpah, and would no doubt have been able to remarry and live a normal life, but she gave that up, for the time
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 26, 2004
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ARE YOU HAVING A BAD DAY?
Not all days are equally good. You know you’re having a bad day when you put both contacts into the same eye. You know you’re having a bad day when your twin sister forgets your birthday. You know you’re having a bad day when you wake up and your braces are stuck
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Contributed by David Hill on Jul 8, 2004
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Illustration: An umpire named Babe Pinelli once called Babe Ruth out on strikes. When the crowd booed with sharp disapproval at the call, the legendary Ruth turned to the umpire with disdain and said, "There’s 40,000 people here who know that the last pitch was ball, tomato head." Suspecting
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 15, 2007
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If anyone had a reason to feel good about themselves it was Ruth Bell Graham. She was the daughter of missionaries to China, where she lived through her childhood. She was the wife of Billy Graham, whose ministry to the world has possibly had more impact than any other individual in history. T.
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 12, 2013
THE ONLY OPINION THAT COUNTS
During a famous battle between baseball's Babes, Babe Pinelli was the plate umpire and Babe Ruth the batter. Pinelli called the legendary slugger out on strikes. Ruth would have none of it. "There's 40,000 people here who know that last one was a ball, tomato head."
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Contributed by Jeff Ruth on May 17, 2003
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In our text we have and example of going back and the tragic results. The Israelites come to the border of the promised land. Moses sends out twelve spies. They scope out the scene. They come back and give their report. Ten of them said, ”We have seen this good land. We saw great walled cities. And
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Contributed by Ruth Hind on Oct 11, 2008
"In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself...For even if I could conceive
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Contributed by Ruth Hind on Oct 11, 2008
But such an attitude is both humble and rare, contrast it with the attitude displayed in a quote by the American writer Gore Vidal, “Every time a friends succeeds a little piece of me dies”. He felt so diminished, so jealous, if some-one other than himself did well that he couldn’t find it in
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Contributed by Ruth Hind on Oct 11, 2008
So humility is seeing our own and other peoples worth with a God’s eye view and treating them accordingly. But perhaps the best way to describe humility is to turn to an example, My example is George Carey former Abof C who when he was Vicar of a large Church in Durham which was left open all the
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Contributed by Ruth Hind on Dec 19, 2007
St John’s point is not that a baby was born in Bethlehem and laid in a manger but that God became a person and that person was Jesus
Sometimes we can get really hung up on this. If God was person, who did every-one pray to during Jesus life time, who did all the God-stuff while Jesus was on earth?
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