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AN EXAMPLE OF GRACE
I just received a letter from a friend who just initiate a prison ministry in my home church, Viorica Negosanu… The first inmate she encountered was a lady, a doctor who murdered her best friend, cut her in pieces and spread them all over the city. She got life sentence. Now
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
Our situation tends to be like a guy who comes into the doctor – “Hey, doctor, I’m having these pains. I think I need a prescription.” And the doctor, who has studied the situation and who knows what needs to happen looks at you and says, “It’s a good thing you came in. You need major
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jan 19, 2008
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C. S. Lewis explains the conflict in The Four Loves.
Anyone who has ever taught or attempted to lead others knows the tendency in all of us toward exaggerating our depth of character while treating leniently our flaws. The Bible calls this tendency hypocrisy. We consciously or subconsciously put
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
The magazine “Discipleship Journal” asked its readers to rank the areas of greatest spiritual challenge to them. The results came back in this order: (the top 5 were)
1. Materialism
2. Pride
3. Self-centeredness
4. Laziness
5. (Tie) Anger/Bitterness and Sexual lust
The respondents also noted that
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 28, 2008
Our Code of Jewish Law states that a person should work for a living, but he should "work to live," and not "live to work." After morning Torah study, a person "should go to work, for all Torah which is not accompanied by work is destined to be nullified and in danger of causing transgression,
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2003
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Jimmy Carter, in his autobiography WHY NOT THE BEST? shared an incident that made him aware of his lack of witnessing to people.
Each year the congregation of Plains Baptist Church holds a one-week revival service.
-In preparation for the week, the congregation would venture into the
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Contributed by Jody Vansickle on Oct 26, 2009
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Mordecai Ham was born April 2, 1877, in Scottsville, Kentucky. He came from eight generations of Baptist preachers. He came to Christ by the time he was eight years old and remembers: "At nine I had definite convictions that the Lord wanted me to preach."
But after high school, he changed his
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Methodist
Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 20, 2010
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THE STAGES OF LOSS
Several years ago a profound and dramatic research project began in Chicago's Billings Hospital. It was a seminar on death, in which psychiatists, chaplains, nurses, and medical doctors studied the ultimate human crisis of facing death.
Basic findings is that the very ill
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Contributed by James Webster on Jan 14, 2012
GOD'S FORGIVENESS AND THE JUMP DRIVE
Most of you know I keep most of my office work in the corner of the family room in the parsonage since we moved back. Most of my study I do early before anyone gets up. However, for the past couple of weeks I have been coming over to the church office early
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Nazarene
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 18, 2010
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PROVIDENCE
The word 'Providence' is made up of two words:
* "Pro" means "Before" and "Video" means "to see";
* The word 'Providence' simply means "to see before"
* So when we talk about the
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Brethren
Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 18, 2008
We all want to be wise, we all want to know. Incidentally, the English word sophomore also comes from two Greek words: sophos means wise, and moros means foolish. In other words, a sophomore is a wise
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Baptist
Contributed by Troy Borst on Mar 2, 2001
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The Gideons tell the true story about a taxi driver who was quite a scoundrel. His name is Herbie and he lived ad worked in Manilla in the Philippines. He, like many people, wanted to learn English, but for the purpose of being able to swindle his customers out of their money. He grabbed the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Nov 10, 2001
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A recent survey of Discipleship Journal readers ranked areas of greatest spiritual challenge to them:
1. Materialism.
2. Pride.
3. Self-centeredness.
4. Laziness.
5. (Tie) Anger/Bitterness.
5. (Tie) Sexual lust.
7. Envy.
8. Gluttony.
9. Lying.
Survey respondents noted temptations were more potent
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Baptist
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FOR SAFETY’S SAKE . . . ( source unknown)
Do NOT ride in automobiles:
they cause 20% of all fatal accidents.
Do NOT stay home:
17% of all accidents do occur in home.
Do NOT walk on the streets or sidewalks:
14% of all accidents happen to pedestrians.
Do NOT travel by air, rail, or water:
6%
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Assembly Of God