Contributed by Bill Burress on Dec 28, 2009
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The Legend of a Cherokee Indian Youth’s Rite of Passage?
A father takes his son into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. The youth is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot
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A man was lost in the Arizona desert.
The sun was high and he was very thirsty - when he stumbled upon an old hut where no one lived.
The hut had only part of a roof left and the doors were almost off the hinges.
So he staggered in and sat down to rest.
In the corner of the hut, he saw an
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Anglican
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Nov 23, 2010
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PREPARING FOR DEPARTURE
I once read how, in the spring of 1981, a young man was flown into desolate northern Alaska to photograph the natural beauty and mysteries of the tundra. He took along 500 rolls of film, several firearms, and 1,400 pounds of provisions.
As the months passed, the words in
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 18, 2011
FURTICK ON AUDACIOUS FAITH
"We set a goal of reaching over one thousand people in our first year of ministry. Since the average church size in America is fewer than one hundred and twenty, and the first rule of goal setting is attainability, I guess we were overshooting it a bit. But we wanted to
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Contributed by John Putty on Apr 14, 2011
SIX THOUSAND YEARS
Early Christian writers held that at the end of 6,000 years of history, Christ would return and reign for 1,000 years (referred to as the Millennium). These included Barnabas (c. A.D. 100), Justin Martyr and Irenaeus (c. A.D. 150), Lactantius (c. A.D. 325), and Methodius, Bishop
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Assembly Of God
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THE REALITY OF PALM SUNDAY
Pope Benedict himself in his homily last Sunday in St Peter’s Square said this about Palm Sunday:
"But what are we really doing when we join this procession as part of the throng which went up with Jesus to Jerusalem and hailed him as King of Israel?
Is this anything
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Anglican
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IS IT WORTH IT?
I see a young soldier, he looks barely 18 to me, he has got fear in his eyes, but he has one goal... to get glory and honour... I see him, going through his training, a hard routine, 20 press-ups followed by 30 crunches, then an hour jogging, and then more push-ups, by the end of
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Sep 20, 2011
YOGI BERRA: DETERMINATION AND DIRECTION
My favorite sports quotations, though, come from Yogi Berra:
"Nobody goes to that restaurant any more -- it's too crowded."
"If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's going to stop them."
Someone asked Yogi what time it was; he said,
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Contributed by Scott Carson on Nov 20, 2011
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GOD'S PROMISES AND URBAN LEGENDS
Do you really believe that being godly is great gain and not financial gain, but something that really matters and lasts? If you believed that, wouldn’t it change your life?
Most people believe that if you smoke, you’ll get lung cancer. Many of you quit smoking
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PRAYING IN AGREEMENT
Our individual prayers have great power. But there is even more power when we come together as a church and pray in agreement. Now, we know that in human terms total agreement is impossible. No two people can be in complete agreement … much less a whole congregation of
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jan 2, 2012
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JESUS IS THE AMPLIFIER
Jesus said: "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5
So... without Jesus I can't do anything? Now, that doesn’t mean you and I can’t do things that might be impressive.
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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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Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Feb 14, 2012
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FOR THE LIFE OF AN ENEMY
A Baptist pastor named Peter Miller was from a small town in Pennsylvania who lived during the American Revolution. And there was another man who lived there named Michael Wittmann, an evil-minded sort who did all that he could to oppose and humiliate the pastor. He made
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