Contributed by Brian Archer on Aug 16, 2001
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Two Ladies were sharing lunch together when one said to the other: "I don’t know many Christians, but somehow I can’t help regarding them as hypocrites."
Said the other, "But your sister-in-law, she lives in the same house with you; surely you must acknowledge that she is a devoted
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 16, 2002
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FASHIONED FOR FAITH
I am inwardly fashioned for faith, not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear, doubt and anxiety.
In anxiety and worry, my
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Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 18, 2002
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Henry Durbanville felt that way. In his book The Best Is Yet To Be he wrote, "I feel so sorry for folks who don’t like to grow old...I revel in my years. They enrich me...I would not exchange...the abiding rest of soul, the measure of wisdom I have gained from the sweet and bitter and perplexing
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Mennonite
Contributed by Dan Jackson on Jul 3, 2006
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A. W. Tozer pastored in the city of Chicago for many years. On one occasion when a new minister arrived in Chicago, Tozer called him and described the difficulty and spiritual warfare involved in pastoring is such a city. He said, “If you ever want to pray with me, I’m at the lakeside every morning
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Contributed by Peter Bines on Sep 14, 2006
The English Anglican evangelist George Whitefield was preaching at Moorfields fair in 1742. As he did so stones, dirt, rotten eggs and pieces of dead cat were thrown at him from the crowd. He vividly describes a group who were intent on putting an end to his preaching: ‘…having got a large pole for
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 17, 2006
J. Whitcomb Brougher tells this story:
A Greek philosopher asked his servant to provide the best dish possible. The servant prepared a dish of tongue, saying: “It is the best of all dishes, because with it we may bless and communicate happiness, dispel sorrow, remove despair, cheer the
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Christian Church
Contributed by Daniel Devilder on Oct 19, 2006
“remember”
• this love on the cross
• this love that reached out to you when you were HOSTILE to God
• this love that reached out to you, though God had every right to be—and WAS—enemies of us
Remembering the cross can have a profound effect on us:
Why then, let your mind come to rest in
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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In his book, The Yoke of Christ, Elton Trueblood quotes a letter from a school girl who probes the depth of her soul. She writes, "I’ve been thinking much this year about the importance of caring, of the passion of life. I’ve often realized that it takes courage to care. Caring is dangerous. It
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Oct 24, 2003
I am inwardly fashioned for faith, not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear, doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry, my being is gasping for
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Contributed by Ken Dillingham on Dec 25, 2003
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Not long ago we took a Christmas trip to my home in Illinois. We witnessed a wreck outside Marshall, TX. When I got to the scene, the man was unconscious and unresponsive. What do you do? All I knew to do while all the people were gathering around this dying man was to pray. And as I prayed, a
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Apostolic
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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Wesleyan
Contributed by Richard Francis on May 10, 2009
HOPE IN ANGUISH
I remember times of betrayal that cut deep into my heart, pain beyond a flesh wound. These are the deepest cuts that never seem to heal, a soul wound like Frodo stabbed by the ring-wraith's sword, an ache that will not heal. I remember times of fear wondering how the money would
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 31, 2009
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Under Or Above Circumstances
There is a story of a lady who was severely depressed by a series of disheartening events. When asked how she was weathering the storm of adversity, she answered, “Quite well, under the circumstances.” “Sister,” he replied kindly yet firmly, “you’ll never make it that
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 11, 2010
My wife Carolyn and I were walking in a park one morning when we spotted a mother squirrel scurrying along a power line with her baby in her mouth. She delivered the little squirrel to a new nest she had built in a tree. Then she ran back across the wire to fetch another baby from the old nest and
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Contributed by Michael Walther on Jul 11, 2011
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A THUNDERCLAP IN THE DEBATE
A group of college students were debating this issue one day. Some said a mother has the right to do what she wants with her own body. Others pointed out the scientific fact that an unborn child is not part of the mother's body and has its own distinct DNA, blood type,
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Lutheran