Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Nov 19, 2002
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Harriet Martineau was an atheist. One morning she & a Christian friend stepped out into the glories of a beautiful fall morning. As Harriet saw the brilliant sun peaking through the haze, & the frost on the meadow, & the brightly colored leaves making their way lazily to the ground, she was filled
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Contributed by Ken Dillingham on Dec 25, 2003
One story of a Vietnam POW tells how that he would gather shiny quartz stones on a remote prison camp so that he could signal to passing US planes. He would carefully gather (during work detail) the stones and slowly worked to arrange SOS. The shiny quartz crystals reflecting the sun signaled his
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Contributed by David Hill on Jul 9, 2004
EDWARD MOTE GREW UP IN THE 1800 PARENTS OWNED AND OPERATED A PUB IN ENGLAND. HE GREW UP NEVER KNOWING THERE WAS A GOD.
AS A YOUNG MAN HE TOOK A JOB AS A CABINETMAKER. HIS BOSS A STRONG CHRISTIAN LED HIM TO JESUS. LATER IN HIS LIFE EDWARD MOTE BEGAN TO WRITE HYMNS. ONE I SURE
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Contributed by David Parks on Feb 25, 2005
I Sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers--and It was not there. I sought in the fertile fields and boundless forrest--in her rich mines and vast world commerce--and it was not there. I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her
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Contributed by Brian Menear on Mar 29, 2007
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Discipline can be painful for anyone especially from a church they love. All discipline serves a purpose especially for a Christian who has committed a sin.
A young child accidentally took sleeping pills from the medicine cabinet. The Dr. told the family to keep the child awake for the next 8
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If there is anything good in us, it is not our own, it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift then it is entirely a debt one owes to love. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself. Thus my learning is not my own, it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I
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Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Nov 3, 2009
In Isaiah 5 God says of the vineyard of the Lord, i.e. Israel, that after all that God had done for them, they acted unjustly and became corrupted in their ways: Isa 5:4 “What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good
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Main Idea: Jesus died a horrible death so we could live for eternity.
Verse: Jesus “Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness…” (1 Peter 2:24 NKJV).
Illustration: A man was sentenced to a horrible death. He was to be buried up
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 28, 2003
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· In 1972, NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10. The satellite’s primary mission was to reach Jupiter, photograph it and its moons, and beam data it collected about this giant planet back to earth. Scientists regarded this as a bold plan, because up until then no satellites had
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Contributed by Steven Davis on Jan 15, 2003
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It’s very bright in the middle of the day, but no matter how bright the day is, night eventually comes and the light fades away. However, it is possible - in theory at least - to live our entire lives in the light of the sun, if we were simply to keep journeying westward fast enough to keep up with
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When people claim that Science and Faith are at odds often point out that back in the Middle Ages the Catholic Church refused to accept Galileo’s theory that the earth revolved around the sun. (rather than the other way around.) That is true --- but the Church did not reject this theory based on
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of passage? His dad takes him into the forest blindfolded and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not take off the blindfold until the ray of sun shines through it. He is all by himself. He cannot cry out
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 2, 2008
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"God's 'glory' is how we describe the sum effect of all of his attributes: grace, truth, goodness, mercy, justice, knowledge, power, eternality--all that He is. Therefore, the glory of God is intrinsic; it is as essential to God as light is to the sun and as wet is to water. You don't make the sun
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