Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Mar 5, 2010
Every animal you can think of -- mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians -- has a brain. But the human brain is unique. It gives us the power to think, plan, speak, imagine... It is truly an amazing organ.
The brain performs an incredible number of tasks:
It controls body temperature, blood
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Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Mar 5, 2010
I have a water filter attached to my kitchen sink at home. The water normally smells bad, tastes bad, because it has stuff in it. When the water comes into the filter, the filter holds on to all the bad stuff. It doesn’t allow the bad stuff to go on through.
I think our brains have a “filter” too.
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Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jul 12, 2010
Robert A. Fryling, in his article titled, A Renewed Mind: The Practice of Humble Thought, said, “A blessed person is one who is delighted and immersed in the teachings of the Lord. Such a person is consciously choosing to have a right relationship with God and consequently exhibits a life of
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 27, 2012
YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS
"Your subconscious actually sees, hears, smells, tastes, and senses everything going on around you. IT DOES NOT MISS ANYTHING. It doesn’t ever forget anything, either. But your conscious brain can’t handle all of these experiences at once, so your subconscious brain interprets
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Contributed by Don Jones on Mar 24, 2009
A.T. Pierson wrote, "Whatever is done for God, without respect of its comparative character as related to other acts, is service, and only that is service. Service is, comprehensively speaking, doing the will of God. He is the object. All is for Him, for His sake, as unto the Lord, not as unto
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
LOVE THEM LIKE JESUS
Dr Tom Hermiz in his book on Holiness tells of being in a motel room in Columbus Ohio before preaching three times on Sunday at a missionary conference. The people in the next room had a loud party, and at 1 am he called the front desk, and they called the room. But it was
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 9, 2009
In the trenches of life when decisions need to be made quickly, we often depend upon short principles that offer us immediate direction and give us spiritual instincts. C. Everett Koop is a great medical ethicist; when addressing end of life decision-making in a booklet he wrote for
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Contributed by Guy De Swardt on Apr 2, 2010
The true story is told of Anny Pennica, a 62 year old woman who had been blind from birth.
At age 47 she married a man she met in her Braille class and for the first 15 years of their marriage he did the seeing for both of them until he also became completely blind.
Anny had never seen a tree or a
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Contributed by Guy De Swardt on Apr 2, 2010
Its like this story of a frightened soldier who was running from sniper bullets.
He dove into a bunker thinking that he was alone.
To his surprise another soldier crawled into the bunker as well.
The second soldier happened to be wearing a cross around his neck.
“Thank goodness you’re here”, said
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Contributed by Guy De Swardt on Apr 2, 2010
John MacArthur says, “The fact that many professed believers are popular and praised by the world, does not indicate that the world has raised it’s standards, but that many
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