Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
STOP EXPECTING LIFE TO BE PERFECT
Donald Miller has written a book called, "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years." It's about the journey Don went on when a couple of filmmakers decided to make a movie about his life, based on his book Blue Like Jazz. Now during the process of writing a screenplay
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Methodist
Contributed by Ken Pell on Mar 23, 2013
THE PASTOR FROM KENYA
Ramez Attalah, general director at The Bible Society of Egypt, attended an international conference or Christian leaders in 1974. He was thrilled to be with top-notch leaders from around the globe—sharing and reading interesting papers on important subjects--but the most
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Nazarene
Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 13, 2018
Note: this story is told by me - Jim Butcher of Madison WV.
I want to tell you a story about an insight that God gave me into John 14:1-4, the passage where Jesus speaks of going to prepare a place for us. This is the story of something that happened to me several years ago while I was in
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Contributed by Mark Hensley on Oct 18, 2000
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As a third-century man was anticipating death, he penned these last words to a friend: "It’s a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy, which is a thousand times better than any
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 23, 2001
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One day I was seeking to emphasize to a Christian Brother the intimacy of this union. We happened to be drinking tea together, so I took a lump of sugar and stirred it into my tea. A couple of minutes later I asked, “Can you tell me where the sugar is now, and where’s the tea?” “No,” he said,
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Contributed by Mark Hensley on May 17, 2001
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In his book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis wrote, "Do not waste your time bothering whether you ’love’ your neighbor act as if you did. As soon as we do this, we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 3, 2001
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In a book I just read this week – Every Man’s Battle; ‘Winning the war on Sexual Temptation…’ The authors make the following observation…
Sexual impurity has become rampant in the church because we’ve ignored the costly work of obedience to God’s standards as individuals, asking too often, “How
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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The New York Times reported a study about the diminishing belief in the devil among Americans. Two-thirds of Americans do not believe in the devil as a living entity. In a randomly selected survey of over 1,000 Americans, pollsters asked whether they agreed that Satan is “not a living being, but
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Methodist
Contributed by James Dunn on Feb 3, 2002
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In the spring of 1894, the Baltimore Orioles came to Boston to play a routine baseball game. But what happened that day was anything but routine.
The Orioles’ John McGraw got into a fight with the Boston third baseman. Within minutes all the players from both teams had joined in the brawl. The
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Baptist
Contributed by Mike Leiter on Feb 18, 2002
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DON'T MENTION IT
Francis MacNutt quotes theologian Walter Wink in his book “Deliverance from Evil Spirits" and writes:
"...if you want to bring all talk to a halt in shocked embarrassment, every eye riveted on you, try mentioning angels, or demons or the devil. You will quickly be appraised for
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Vineyard
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 16, 2002
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There are twelve million cases of sexually transmitted diseases every year. The AIDS epidemic is reaching monstrous proportions, and efforts at making sure we all wear condoms aren’t going to safeguard anybody. The failure rate of condoms when it comes to preventing pregnancy is somewhere between
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Jun 25, 2002
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A PREREQUISITE TO FORGIVENESS
A pastor finished his message early one Sunday, (and that pastor was not me) and he wanted to check his congregation’s understanding. So he asked, "Can anyone tell me what you must do before you can obtain forgiveness of sin?"
There was a short pause and then, from
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Contributed by Lisa Delay on Aug 10, 2005
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I am reminded of my daughter the other day trying on her father’s shoes. It was so endearing to see her walk around thinking she didn’t look utterly ridiculous. To her nothing was wrong with clomping around in shoes 14 inches longer than her chubby little feet. She was all at once very silly and
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 10, 2005
It was written in 1929 but it has been sung for over 6 decades by such performers as Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, The Carpenters, The Supremes, Willie Nelson and now, our own Robin Petrovich. The tune is entitled "Without a Song," the chorus goes: "Without a song the day would never end; Without a
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