Our text from Romans assures us that the Holy Scriptures bring us encouragement and hope. All our hymns we are singing today affirm the encouragement and hope we receive by being “People of One Book.” I read the daily devotional for March 14 in Kenneth W. Osbeck’s devotional guide AMAZING GRACE:
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Methodist
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 18, 2007
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Sin has become commonplace among God’s people. We have become somewhat hardened to it, given the constant exposure we have to it through modern media. Sin is a problem in the life of a Christian, and unconfessed sin will hinder the prayer life of anyone.
Consider the following example of a young
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Baptist
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The Attorney and the Fisherman
A hard-driving corporate attorney saw a fisherman he knew from church one afternoon, legs dangling off the pier as he helped his two young sons catch crabs. “Why aren’t you out there fishing?” he asked.
“Because I’ve caught enough fish for today.”
“Why don’t you catch
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Assembly Of God
Some of the other great lessons of the book of Jonah are:
• "God’s judgments, even when declared in prophecy, can be averted by genuine repentance." This is a "crucial theological truth relating human repentance to escaping from anticipated judgment" (New Layman’s Bible Commentary).
o "Jeremiah
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Michael Brown on Mar 11, 2008
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Who is Jesus?
In chemistry, He turned water to wine;
In biology, He was born without the normal conception;
In physics, He disproved the law of gravity when he ascended into heaven;
In economics, He disproved the law of diminishing return by feeding 5000 men with two fish & five loaves of
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 26, 2008
When I was 14 months old he had a medical ailment, which could have been fatal in the 1960s. The surgeons thought I had no hope and my parents gave him up for dead. They promised God that if I lived, I would minister unto the Lord all the days of his life. The churches all over Delhi prayed for my
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
"Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators Pontius
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Baptist
Contributed by Rick Bezanson on Jul 11, 2008
Many say the movie; "The Passion of the Christ" is too violent. Yes, it is violent. But it also is historically very accurate. People complain about the graphic way Mel Gibson portrays a Roman scourging. But it is historically accurate. One witness to a Roman scourging gave this description: "The
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Lutheran
Illustration “Rights and responsibility”
In America we have the Statue of Liberty on the East coast but I often thought we need to have a Statue of Responsibility on the West coast to balance everything out here in America.
The Statue of Liberty in New York is known for its meaning of freedom and
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by John Boquist on Jul 19, 2008
MATTHEW 16: DECLASSIFIED MEETING
In 1945, the new President, Harry Truman had to be brought up to speed quickly on the atomic bomb. Then he had to go through the agonizing process of deciding whether or not to use the bomb to bring the war to an end. We know of course that two atomic bombs were
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Baptist
Contributed by Michael Snow on Aug 13, 2008
Years ago, E. Stanley Jones, the great Methodist Missionary to India, would conduct special meetings that he called "ashrams." An ashram was a special time set aside for spiritual growth. It’s what we might call a retreat. Dr. Jones always began his ashrams by passing out pieces of paper and
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Baptist
Contributed by Brian Harvison on Aug 16, 2008
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Priority Lesson
At a nursing home in Florida a resident group was discussing ailments. "My arms are so weak I can hardly life this cup of coffee," said one.
"Yes I know, my cataracts are so bad I can't even see my coffee," replied another.
"I can't turn my head because of the arthritis in my
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Baptist
Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
Most of you probably know that the show "Friends" is one of the most watched sitcoms on TV. I have watched it many times, and some of the episodes are pretty funny. But, the show is also very revealing about the way our society and also many people in the church see friendships today.
If we don't
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Mennonite
Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 24, 2008
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There was a boy who was adopted by a Christian couple. When that boy became a teenager he started to hang around the wrong crowd. He got involved with drugs and the wrong kind of girls. He broke his curfew and was just rebellious. That couple went and talked to the preacher. They asked the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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WHO DO YOU RELY ON?
In "Point Man", Steve Farrar tells about a photographer for a national magazine who was assigned to take pictures of a great forest fire. He was advised that a small plane would be waiting to fly him over the fire.
The photographer arrived at the airstrip just an hour before
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Willem Nel on Feb 4, 2009
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WILLIAM COLGATE
His family was poor and at the age of 16 he left home to seek his fortune. The only thing he knew was how to make soap and candles. He met an old canal-boat captain, who gave him this advice: "Be a good man, give your heart to Christ, pay the Lord all that belongs to Him, make an
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 9, 2009
WHEN DWIGHT L. MOODY WAS IN LONDON DURING ONE OF HIS FAMOUS EVANGELISTIC TOURS, SEVERAL BRITISH CLERGYMEN VISITED HIM. THEY WANTED TO KNOW HOW AND WHY THIS POORLY EDUCATED AMERICAN WAS SO EFFECTIVE IN WINNING THRONGS OF PEOPLE TO CHRIST. MOODY TOOK THE THREE MEN TO THE WINDOW OF HIS HOTEL ROOM AND
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