Contributed by Manuel Amparo on May 10, 2006
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It is said that Mr. Moody, in his early days in Chicago, was a regular attendant on the noonday prayer meeting. At one of these meetings a rich brother rose and told those present of an opportunity to do a certain good thing if only three or four hundred dollars could be raised for the purpose, and
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 2, 2009
The Talmud contains a similar statement, ""He who humbles himself, him will God elevate; he who elevates himself, him will God humiliate. He who runs after greatness, from him greatness will flee; he who flees from greatness, him will greatness follow" (’Er. 13a). [Jewish Encyclopedia]
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Nigel Heath on Mar 25, 2010
THE BALLOON AND THE BALLAST
We need a balance between the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. Imagine launching a helium balloon with no ballast. It would just up and away and finally burst when it reaches an altitude where the air is so thin that it cannot rise higher. It needs ballast--something to
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on May 29, 2007
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The Holiness of God:
I was in B.Q (D.I.Y.STORE) this week getting some paint for these walls in the church and I had it mixed on a machine, but the main ingredient was white their were tints of other colours but the main one used was white... And its the same with God’s Holiness God’s love is a
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Baptist
Contributed by Charles Salmon on Dec 26, 2007
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I’ll never forget the episode of “Home Improvement” in which one the Taylor children had a part with three others in the Christmas pageant at church holding up cardboard letters that were supposed to spell “NOEL.” They got backwards and spelled “LEON.” Al Borlan, Tim’s sidekick, leaned over to
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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Americans are drowning in debt. Consumers have racked up more than $2.2 trillion in purchases and cash advances on major credit cards in just the last year. And it's become a habit for them to spend more than they have. The overall credit card debt grew by 315% from '89 to '06. To compound the
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Contributed by Billy Ricks on Apr 12, 2008
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SOMEONE YOU KNOW
A gray haired lady, long a member of her community and Church, shook hands with the minister after the service one morning. "That was a wonderful sermon, she told him, just wonderful. Everything you said applied to someone I know."
What is often missed is that God’s word
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Contributed by Lee Miller on Aug 22, 2008
It was one of the best football games ever. Remember Super Bowl XXXIV between the Rams and Titans? In the final seconds Tennessee was driving for the game-tying touchdown and on the final play Kevin Dyson caught a pass over the middle and lunged for the goal line. He was tackled just short of the
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Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
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I Want to Stay With You
That reminds me of what happened one Sunday after a Child Dedication service. As a young family was driving away from church after the dedication of their baby, little Johnny, the older brother, cried all the way home in the back seat of the car. His mother asked him three
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Mennonite
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Peter Pan and The Hope Of Heaven…
St. John’s is the oldest of all the cities in North America. Embedded in this 400-year-old city are many stories. Bowering Park is one of the oldest parks in St. John’s. It was established by a grant of land from the Bowering family in 1911 on the 100th
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