Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on May 7, 2003
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One of my favorite comics is “The Family Circus.” Once I believe that the father was helping Billy with his homework with the rest of the family there in the kitchen. Dad asks Billy, “What is the greatest power source in all the world?” In turn everyone is pictured thinking what the answer may
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Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Apr 20, 2005
One Carthusian Monk of the Middle Ages wrote of this inner chaos:
I become aware, Lord, that the world of my own spirit is still formless and void and that darkness still covers the face of this abyss. It is truly in a state of confusion, a kind of dark and terrifying chaos, knowing nothing of its
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The other night at worship, my son, John Austin, asked Sheryl, "Mom, why does everybody call daddy, Brother Mitchell?" As Sheryl did her best to explain to him how we are all brothers and sisters in Christ and that we are all God’s children, John Austin’s brain was working. When she was through
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Billy Graham shared this in his book, ‘The Secret of Happiness’: (pp. 74-75)
A man and his wife visited an orphanage where they hoped to adopt a child. In an interview with the boy they wanted, they told him in glowing terms about the many things they could give him.
To their amazement, the
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 30, 2008
The first Russian Cosmonauts went into space and returned. One of them said when he returned from his journey in outer space, "Some people say there is a God out there, but in my travels around earth all day long I looked around and I didn’t see him. I saw no God, nor angels, I don’t believe in
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 12, 2008
“If God is omnipresent, he must needs be omniscient; but he is omnipresent; this supposes the infinite and immensity of his being, from which follows the ubiquity of his presence; heaven and earth include the whole creation, and the Creator fills both (Jer. 23:24); he not only knows both, and
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Illustration: Love in Deed and Truth: A young man spent an entire evening telling a girl how much he loved her. He said that he could not live without her; that he would go to the ends of the earth for her; yes, go through fire for her, or die for her. However, on leaving, he said, “I’ll see you
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WE STUDY THE BIBLE TO LISTEN TO HIS VOICE
"We study the Bible to listen to His voice that comes from outside our experience, not to listen to our own voice that is crying from within.
"His Word is not one of many. It is the only Word that has been there from all eternity because it comes from
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Contributed by Tim Smith on May 11, 2014
What do these dates have in common (1248, 1306, 1689, 1792, 1836, 1844, 1914, 1936, 1960, 1974, 1981, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 2011)? They all represent the times in which people predicted that the second coming of Christ would occur. No one, not even Jesus knows the exact time of Christ’s coming.
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Four-hundred-and-fifty years before Christ walked the earth there lived a philosopher by the name of Zeno. Zeno was best known for his mathematical paradoxes…situations that appear to be impossible or self-contradictory. One of his most famous paradoxes could be stated this way:
Let us suppose
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Contributed by Ted Sutherland on Mar 26, 2001
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Queen Victoria was much loved. She made unexpected calls on the farm folks who lived in cottages. Any day might be a royal day, and the Scots had a chair prepared for her visit. Their houses were kept spotless. They were a clean and wholesome people, but her announced visits added to the joy of
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In 1996, Andrew Meekens, an elder in the international evangelical church of Addis Ababa was onboard a hijacked Ethiopian airliner which was running out of fuel. It eventually made an emergency crash landing near the Comoros Islands. According to some of those who survived the crash landing,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 3, 2002
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Creation teaches that life can pass through different forms and that life may even come out of death.
-The caterpillar lives the first part of its life crawling on the ground.
-After fulfilling its course, the caterpillar curls up and seemingly dies. Then out of that body a beautiful butterfly
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 10, 2002
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On a port call in the Philippines Roy Fowler saw a great illustration.
The driver of a caribou wagon overtook an old man carrying a very heavy load. Having compassion on him, the driver invited the old man to ride in the wagon for free.
Gratefully the old man accepted. He got in the wagon and
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