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  • Careless Living

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
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     | 2,319 views

    CARELESS LIVING We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline practically ;has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like ...read more

  • Sin Is Like A Raccoon

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 13, 2010
     | 1,207 views

    SIN IS LIKE A RACCOON In A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond, a former zookeeper, has this to say: Raccoons go through a glandular change at about 24 months. After that they often attack their owners. Since a 30-pound raccoon can be equal to a 100-pound dog in a scrap, I felt compelled to mention ...read more

  • A Walk Worthy Of The Title

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 13, 2010
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    A WALK WORTHY OF THE TITLE Cal Ripken Jr. is the Iron Man of baseball. On September 6, 1995, he broke the record held by Lou Gehrig of 2,130 consecutive games played. Of course, there were days when that consecutive streak was in danger. In a June 1993 game Ripken was involved in a ...read more

  • The Tortoise And The Hare

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
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    THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE A tortoise and a hare started to dispute which of them was the swifter, and before separating they made an appointment for a certain time and place to settle the matter. The hare had such confidence in his natural fleetness that he did not trouble about the race, but lay ...read more

  • Broken Things

    Contributed by Oyewole O. Sarumi on Mar 2, 2011
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    BROKEN THINGS God does not see as man sees. He placed high premium on broken things. He prefers to deal and bless only things and people that are broken. However, when compared to man, the gap is huge. Man prefers things that are not broken and places value on such. Once anything is broken, man's ...read more

  • Meeting With God In A Cesspit

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 15, 2011
     | 1,934 views

    MEETING WITH GOD IN A CESSPIT Philip Yancey shared about "a conference on evangelism sponsored by Billy Graham in Manila. A Cambodian man mesmerized the audience with his story of daily meditation. Under the Pol Pot regime he was held in a concentration camp like those depicted in the movie ...read more

  • Success In Difficulty

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
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    SUCCESS IN DIFFICULTY "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles that one has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), Educator, as quoted in Bits & Pieces, Vol. T/No. 17, p. 5 - "Many men owe the grandeur ...read more

  • Deal With Habits Early On

    Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
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    DEAL WITH HABITS EARLY ON An elderly teacher, with a pupil by his side, took a walk through a forest. Suddenly he stopped and pointed to four plants close at hand. The first was just beginning to peep above the ground, the second had rooted itself pretty well into the earth, the third was a small ...read more

  • That Government Is Best Which Governs The Least, ...

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 25, 2011
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    That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline ...read more

  • We All Have To Run

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2011
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    WE ALL HAVE TO RUN First of all, let’s establish one immutable fact--we all have to run; we have no choice. An intelligence far above our own; and the circumstances which have been placed upon us, dictate that we all must run just to survive. Out on the grassy plains of the African Savannah lives ...read more

  • At War With Our Vices

    Contributed by Michael Walther on Jul 4, 2011
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    AT WAR WITH OUR VICES On July 4, 1776 fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. Citing numerous abuses of the law and the oppressive and unjust rule of the king of England, these men pledged their honor, their lives and their livelihood to the cause of justice and freedom. We have ...read more

  • A Positive Stillness

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 30, 2011
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     | 3,993 views

    A POSITIVE STILLNESS "The greater mystery, surpassing all words, summons us to silence. It must, of course, be a silence with content, not just the absence of speech and action. We should expect the liturgy to give us a positive stillness that will restore us. Such stillness will not be just a ...read more

  • Deficiencies

    Contributed by Mark Adams on Aug 13, 2011
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    DEFICIENCIES I want to tell you about a weird thing that used to happen a lot to sailors during the 1600s. Vessels were getting more sea worthy, and adventures were taking people farther and farther from home. You might be on the same ship with the same people, with the same person cooking for ...read more

  • Researchers Find That Multi-Taskers Perform ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Sep 27, 2011
     | 1,486 views

    RESEARCHERS FIND THAT MULTI-TASKERS PERFORM POORLY So you think you can multitask? Texting while driving? No problem. Watching television and reading the Bible? No problem. Checking your email while listening to a spouse, a child, or a friend? No problem. In reality, however, according to a team ...read more

  • Mom Was Right!

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 28, 2011
     | 2,336 views

    Mom was Right! Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for everyone. Many studies have found a relationship between eating breakfast and learning ability, attention span, and general well-being. The American Dietetic Association (www.eatright.org) reports that adults who eat breakfast ...read more

  • The World: A Temporary Container

    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 3, 2012
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    THE WORLD: A TEMPORARY CONTAINER The first garbage day after Christmas must be the biggest garbage day of the year. You can tell what most people got for Christmas by just looking at the garbage pile in front of the house. We usually throw out all the boxes--unless you have children who like to ...read more

  • Just Play One Inning.

    Contributed by Eugene Morell on Jan 4, 2012
     | 1,255 views

    "JUST PLAY ONE INNING." Many years ago baseball schedules were even more exacting than they are now, with double-headers almost every week. Occasionally a player would get sick of the grind and approach the manager, asking for permission to sit out a game. The manager would say. "Sure, take the ...read more

  • On Habits

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Mar 7, 2012
     | 4,018 views

    ON HABITS Someone Once Said... * Thoughts produce acts, acts produce habits, and habits produce character.--Anonymous * If we realize the extent to which we are mere walking bundles of habits, we would give more heed to their own formation.--William James* * First we ...read more

  • Foster: Five Percent Spirituality

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2012
     | 2,580 views

    FOSTER: FIVE PERCENT SPIRITUALITY Richard Foster writes this: Many of us live in a kind of inner apartheid. We segregate out a small corner of pious activities and then make no spiritual sense out of the rest of our lives. We become so accustomed to this way of living that we fail to see the ...read more

  • At Times Being A Christian Will Mean For Us A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    At times being a Christian will mean for us a sacrifice, will involve a cost , it could involves once held friendships it could mean letting go of something in order for us to fulfil Gods purposes in our lives as Martin Luther once said, “The cross we bear always goes before the crown we ...read more

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