Contributed by Steve Miller on Mar 16, 2008
The teacher was testing the children in his Sunday school class to see if they understood the concept of getting to heaven. He asked them, "If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into Heaven?" "NO!" the children answered. "If I
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 7, 2002
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Bob Shackleford reworded I Love to the Tell the Story. I love to tell the story of unseen things below, of people and their problems, each detail do I know. I love to tell the story, someone has said it’s true, to pass it on inspires me, as nothing else could do. I love to tell the story, But if
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Contributed by Matthew Redder on Sep 21, 2018
I love this quote as I believe it is hard for the Christian artist to always understand their place in the church.
Truth be told, artists have an incredible gift and responsibility in the community to illuminate the realities of the Word and of this life we live. Wright puts it well:
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 1, 2003
In his classic devotional book titled The Saint’s Everlasting Rest, English Puritan pastor and author Richard Baxter (1615-1691) wrote:
Why are not our hearts continually set on heaven? Why dwell we not there in constant comtemplation…Bend thy soul to study eternity, busy thyself about the life to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
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Erick Clapton, arguably the greatest living rock guitarist, wrote a heart wrenching song about the death of his four year old son (March 20, 1991). He fell from a 53rd-story window. Clapton took nine months off and when he returned his music had changed. The hardship had made his music softer, more
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Contributed by N A on Apr 10, 2006
“Faith’s supreme longing is for the return of the glory that has departed from the sanctuary… If we today could rediscover the virtue in that Name, the victory in that Name, the violence in that Name, we
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As Eucharistic Prayer 4 prays: grant in your loving kindness to all who partake of this one Bread and one Chalice that, gathered into one body by the Holy Spirit,
they may truly
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Feb 9, 2025
[024] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – AT HIS FEET
The expression “at His feet” is often used in the New Testament in regards to the Lord Jesus Christ as an expression of humility, worship and help. This is just one verse – {{Luke 7:38 “and standing behind Him WEEPING AT HIS FEET, she began to wet His
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Who among us hast not feared death at one time or another? The chorus of a Bluegrass Gospel Song recorded by such artists as Loretta Lynn and Decatur, Illinois’, Alison Krauss sums it up so well:
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Lord I wanna go to Heaven, but I don’t
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Contributed by N A on May 18, 2008
QUOTE: “Faith’s supreme longing is for the return of the glory that has departed from the sanctuary… If we today could rediscover the virtue in that Name, the victory in that Name, the violence in that Name, we
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