GRACE AND THE WATERFALL
Last week I went for a walk and I saw a beautiful rock under a small waterfall, it was continually cleansed. My friend found a rock, but his rock wasn't found under a waterfall, and it's not as pretty and as smooth.
Grace is
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
A MODEL HUSBAND
A husband came down to breakfast and was delighted to hear his wife say, "Darling you are a model husband."
Now he was so flattered by the remark that later on that day he decided to look up the meaning of the word in his Oxford dictionary. He
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
“If we don’t feel strong desires for… God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with small things and there is no room for the great.” (John Piper,
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Contributed by Et Tapper on Feb 9, 2009
An old lady went to a tombstone-cutter's office to order a stone for her husband's grave. After explaining that all she wanted was a small one with no frills, she told him to put the words, "To My Husband" in a suitable place. When the stone was
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 23, 2022
Two people were watching a man drive a herd of sheep through the main street of a small town.
“I thought shepherds led sheep. I didn’t know they drove them with a whip.”
“They do,” the other fellow remarked. “That’s not a
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 30, 2001
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1917: Russian Orthodox Church bishops were having a convocation: came to a heated debate with fusing and feuding. A few doors down the street another meeting was going on. The Bulshavics were together plotting the overthrow of the Czar. Revolution- the beginning of what we now know as
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Contributed by Jerry Falwell on Mar 7, 2002
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It is not possible for us to bless God, because the one who is the “Blesser” is greater than the one who is blessed. So, how can we bless God? It begins when God blesses us, then we in turn bless Him for His goodness to us. When we bless God, we are giving
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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George Muller told of his approach: "I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regard to a given matter. 90% of the trouble with people is just here. 90% of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord’s will, whatever it
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Contributed by Hal Seed on Jul 27, 2007
“The Turkish landowner… is vividly remembered as corrupt, ruthless, and indifferent to any suffering he or his steward might cause his renters. [But] this scene is quite different from the one in the parable. At the very beginning, someone cares enough about the welfare of the master to report the
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Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 9, 2008
As Wilbur Smith puts it, "We know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus than we know about the death of any other man in the entire ancient world." Therefore, we begin our study today with the premise that these events are just as historically
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 2, 2008
John Stott said: “No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky blackness of the night sky that the stars begin to appear, and it is only against the dark background of sin and judgment that the gospel shines forth”
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 7, 2022
Leprosy is like sin in many ways. There are some good reasons why many ancient rabbis considered a leper as someone who was already dead.
It begins as nothing.
It is painless in its first stages.
It grows slowly.
It is contagious.
It often remits for a while and
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Contributed by Jane White on Dec 6, 2002
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There was a priest in Dublin who explained the difference between this life and the next life by talking about the life of the dragonfly. At the bottom of the pond little grubs were crawling around. They wonder what happens to their members who climb up the stem of the lily and never come back.
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 4, 2009
SOMEBODY ONCE WROTE A BOOK ‘MEN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS WHICH REALLY SPEAKS ABOUT HOW DIFFERENT MEN AND WOMEN REALLY ARE. I THINK IT STANDS OUT THE MOST ON THE WEDDING DAY ITSELF.
THE BIG DAY ARRIVES AND THE HUSBAND TO BE WAKES UP, RELAXES MIGHT HAVE A FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST THEN
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 22, 2010
Ravi Zacharias is one of the most prominent and effective Christian speakers and writers of our time. Once Ravi was doing a lecture at Ohio State U. As he was being driven to the auditorium, the driver went past the new Wexner Art Center.
The driver said, "This is a brand new art building for
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Pentecostal
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I want you to imagine with me for a minute we are all living in a time when we had no fire. We have no way to produce a great deal of warmth at night; we have no way to cook what we kill in the forest. Someone has told that all we need to do is pray for it and it will come. So imagine we want to
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