Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 13, 2005
Twelve words will keep a marriage together: "I was wrong; I am sorry; please forgive me; I love you." If we are going to cope with conflicts constructively, they need to be expressed frequently. To cope with the
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Envy is defined from various dictionaries as – 1. Spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins). 2. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another. 3. Painful or resentful
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2001
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"I prefer to remain forever damned"
During a Billy Graham crusade in Australia, a Melbourne daily paper received this letter:
"I have heard Dr. Billy Graham on the air, viewed him on television, and seen reports and letters concerning his mission. I am heartily sick of the type of religion that
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 8, 2001
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In my "Reader’s Digest - Jesus and His Times" (copy write 1987 - from which much of this information is derived), there is a picture of a "Mikvah" that has been discovered in Masada (the ancient fortress built by Herod which held off the Romans for so long after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.).
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John Wesley had been an Anglican clergyman for many years before he became a Christian. He had been a missionary in Georgia – and still was not a Christian.
His conversion experience happened on the evening of 24th May 1738. Wesley had gone very unwillingly to a non-conformist meeting in London
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Anglican
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 12, 2007
Beware of pride. I would put it first in the list of the seven deadly sins. It produces independence, rebellion and self-will. It leads to all the other sins. It makes on think, as Lucifer did, that he is more important than God.
Sometime when you’re feeling important,
Sometimes when your ego’s
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2009
In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church’s integrity problem is in the misconception "that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior." He goes on to say, "It is revival without reformation, without repentance."
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Aug 29, 2012
ONLY BY SACRIFICE
During World War II, a young paratrooper, David Webster of E Company, 101st Airborne wrote his mother,
"Stop worrying about me. I joined the parachutists to fight. I intend to fight. If necessary, I shall die fighting, but don’t worry about this because no war can be won without
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Nov 13, 2002
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Paul J. Meyer reminds us, "Everyone leaves a legacy, whether you have children or not." We all influence the people we encounter. If we want to leave a godly legacy, we will need
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 23, 2006
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The late Rev. Seth Joshua tells how he met a man who said that he could not swallow what the preachers called “original sin.” “My good fellow,” said Rev. Joshua, “there’s no occasion for
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SPURGEON ON ROMANS 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23).
C.H. Spurgeon said about this verse, "It is a Christian proverb, a golden
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Contributed by Peter Bines on Sep 22, 2005
John Newton wrote to a young minister advising that God leads his people through distresses, including a sense of their sinfulness. And His purpose? To: ’…preserve in you a due sense of your own unworthiness, and to convince you, that your
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