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                    Our churches today need to be a spiritual house. Many times our churches have become a social house where as one old preacher said: 
We traded our upper room into the board room,
the fire of the Holy Spirit for a warm heater,
our prayer meetings for chicken dinners,
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Redder on May 21, 2018
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Have you ever shopped at Home Depot? Lowes? Or some other home repair-improvement type store? 
If you have you've inevitably seen the piles of lumber tossed aside that are broken, cracked, warped, crooked, or just plain look bad. These piles of lumber go ignored as faithful builders go for the
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard  Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A house is a house is a house--until love comes through the door, that is. And love intuitively goes around sprinkling that special brand of angel dust that transforms a house into a very special home for very special people: your family. 
   Money, of course, can build a charming house, but only
                    
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                    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jul 28, 2011
                
                
                
                    NOT THE WHITE HOUSE, BUT YOUR HOUSE
As part of a commencement address, former First Lady Barbara Bush said the following to a group of graduating college students: 
"As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer, or business leader will be, you are a human being first, and those human
                    
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                    Spiritual Problem--Spiritual Cure
I picked up a recent book which I received from the AACC Convention called "Caring for People God's Way." The book is written by three people Tim Clinton, Archibald Hart and George Ohlschlager. The book is considered a new guide for Christian Counseling and is
                    
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                    Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 10, 2006
                
                
                
                    (a story built on one by A. Stanley)
While in college, Dave came home with me for a Winter Break.  Unknown to my parents, though, was what Dave brought in his extra large suitcase:  a 40 pound python named ‘Squeeze’.   I really never liked snakes, but he told me he had no where to keep in during
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 31, 2009
                
                
                
                    No House Without Sorrow
Among the parables that Chinese teachers use is the story of a woman who lost an only son. She was grief-stricken out of all reason. She made her sorrow a wailing wall. Finally she went to a wise old philosopher. He said to her, “I will give you back your son if you will
                    
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                    CLEAN HOUSE
This summer Susan and I discovered a reality show called CLEAN HOUSE (Style Channel). Have some of you seen it?  It's a show where a team of people come in help people with a hopelessly messy house by cleaning it out.  The host is a comedian named Niecy Nash.  When she first enters the
                    
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                    Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 9, 2010
                
                
                
                    SPLITTING THE HOUSE
Mary Karr’s uncle had endured all he could stand!  The tall Texan grabbed his chain saw and began to split his own house into two halves.  He was sick and tired of living with such an unforgiving woman to whom he had not spoken in months.  He had enough.  He divided his house
                    
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                    CLEAN HOUSE
Imagine, if you receive a message from God the Father & He told you that He is going to send Jesus down to visit you at your house on a specific date. What would be the first thing that you do? You would want to clean your house from top to bottom. Everything will be properly dusted;
                    
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                    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
                
                
                
                    Jesus said, “My Father’s house is to be a House of Prayer.”  All through the Bible, we find again and again, God working through the prayers of His children.  We remember the Day Elijah …
	We remember Elisha, when he prayed that his servant’s eyes would be opened and he saw the armies of God, with
                    
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                    Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 23, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SPIRITUAL ANARCHY
In his [Barna’s] new volume he flatly states that moral anarchy has arrived and rules our culture today. The argument hinges on a substantial amount of attitudinal and behavioral evidence: record bankruptcy levels, frivolous lawsuits, the rapid growth of the pornography industry,
                    
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 27, 2006
                
                
                
                    Side note:
All kinds of people claim to have spiritual experiences.
Just because someone claims something – doesn’t make it valid.
	Neighbor – I have daily discussions with my dog
				About the middle east.
 
	My guess is that you would not grant him the benefit of the doubt.
But if that same
                    
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                    Contributed by David Heflin on Feb 13, 2007
                
                
                
                    Spiritual Lasik
I have heard people talk about how LASIK dramatically changed the way they saw everything.  They could see with greater focus and vividness, in a way they never imagined.  Lasik harnesses the power of light in the form of a laser.  It is heat that cuts into the retina to correct the
                    
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