Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Feb 3, 2010
I saw one of my daughter’s magazines yesterday with some skinny, half starved super models on the cover who live in extravagance and must eat like those in a refugee camp, all because they want to be admired by people and paid enormous amounts of money. The fasting Jesus discourages is fasting like
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Contributed by Michael Walther on May 20, 2011
HOW MANY WILL BE SAVED?
There was a debate between two famous rabbis about this. One said that the number saved would be one third of the world. To support this he pointed to the ancient Flood in which Noah and his three sons and their families were saved. But of these three sons, Shem, the
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Nov 9, 2011
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THE OLD MAN AND THE SAVIOR
Jan Weinert wrote: "The old man came into the service shortly after it started. He sat at the end of my row, with two vacant seats between us. A noticeable hearing aid was in his ear, and he held the bulletin up to within inches of his thick glasses to try to read it. As
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Contributed by Doug Lyon on May 11, 2008
REFINING
A woman called a silversmith one day because she was curious about the process of refining silver. So she made an appointment to come to his shop and watch him work.
She saw him hold a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, you need to
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 20, 2008
It was a busy day in our Costa Mesa, California, home. But then, with 6 children and one on the way, every day was a bit hectic. On this particular day, however, I was having trouble doing even routine chores -- all because of one little boy.
Len, who was three at the time, was on my heels no
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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"THEY’RE SO BEAUTIFUL, MOMMY"
Diane Komp is a pediatric oncologist. She treats children who have cancer. A highly trained physician, she used to be an agnostic. That was before Anna died. Anna was a little girl who had leukemia, in the days when recovery was rare. As death came close, her parents,
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 5, 2008
"Stephen Kuusisto grew up feeling a stigma about being legally blind. For him, sight consisted of a kaleidoscope of shapes, colors, and shadows. Privately he would press his face close to the page of a book and memorize street names in an exhausting attempt to appear more able to see than he really
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DON'T HAVE TO SPANK ME
During the normal works of the day, Jenny the local Pastor’s wife is watching her three little boys while her husband is at the church. When all of a sudden she hears a large crash in the living room, and when she runs in to see what it was there was little 4-year-old Brian
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Pentecostal
PEOPLE WILL ASK YOU
If you commit yourself to taking advantage of opportunities that come your way, you will find that sharing your faith is going to happen naturally. For one thing, People WILL ask you about your connection to God.
We had two examples of this just in the last few weeks from
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