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                    Marriage is not a contract; it is a covenant.  In a contact, the two parties remain separate (Party of the first part and party of the second part).  Like salad dressing, oil and water, shaken up and mixed together, put never really one.  Left alone and still, salad dressing will eventually
                    
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                    Lane Adams once compared the process of spiritual growth to the strategy the Allies used in World War II to liberate islands in the South Pacific.  First, they would “soften up” and island, weakening the resistance by shelling the enemy strongholds with bombs from offshore ships.  Next, a small
                    
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                    Illus.:  “How the Word Was Cut Into His Heart”
When the Christians in Lahore, India, wanted to stamp Matthew 11:28 on the back of Gospels they had printed, they found they could not obtain a rubber stamp with which to do it.  The only way was to get a clever Moslem to cut the words in rubber for
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
                
                
                
                    The next plague in Exodus 9 is a severe electrical thunderstorm with hail. I remember as a kid looking out over the field near our house and seeing a brown cloud of what looked like dust billowing it’s way towards me. The sky took on a brown tinge that seemed to paint the whole atmosphere and
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Barreca on Apr 8, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WAR HORSE: PERSEVERENCE
Last week, I watched "War Horse." It's a Steven Spielberg film about a young English boy and his horse. 
 
The family is about to lose their farm because dad bought a horse for his son.  The father bears a war injury and cannot tend the farm.  He spends his last money
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Berry on Jun 21, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Kenneth Chaflin, a seminary professor who often speaks and writes about building stronger families was home getting ready to eat supper before heading off to a speaking engagement. His 5yr old daughter came and said, “Daddy will you stay home with me tonight?” Her plea pierced his soul. He thought
                    
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                    Let’s go back to Genesis 2:16-17 to review exactly what God said and then we’ll compare it to the distortion Eve came up with: “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, ‘You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in
                    
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                    1.	George Barna notes, “In the 1970’s “seeker churches’ made a strong theoretical argument for the importance of encouraging people to feel no obligation to toe a Bible to church. Their goal was to make visitors feel welcome and comfortable by alleviating the need to locate a Bible, by diminishing
                    
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                    Contributed by Bret Toman on Dec 22, 2011
                
                
                
                    Anibal sat in a Brazilian jail cell, guilty of murder. He was a weightlifter, with bulging biceps, a leathery face and a tattoo of an anchor on his forearm that seemed to symbolize his personality. But he appeared  to soften as the preacher talked with him about guilt, forgiveness, a God who knew
                    
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