Two Prayers we prayed for our kids:
I want to recommend a prayer Susan and I prayed while raising our kids. We asked God to do this for our kids: "Maximize the effect of the things we do right - and minimize the effect of the things we do wrong." Of course we usually thought of praying that
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Dec 17, 2009
Listen to part of the June 2006 editorial of Christianity Today, written when The Da Vinci Code was being released in theaters:
“The tendency to grasp at excuses for not making a commitment to (God) was illustrated by National Public Radio commentator Peter Manseau. He compared the Gospel of Judas
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 28, 2009
When I first came into ministry many years ago now, Julie and I realized that the only way we could train in the Bible College was to sell everything we owned except our car and our children (actually our children already belonged to God, so they didn’t come into the equation). There was no
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Contributed by Nigel Heath on Jan 25, 2010
Reading Someone Else's Mail
Have you ever read somebody else's mail? Come on, admit it. Surely there was a time you can remember when you saw an opened letter somewhere and you invented some reason why it would be the responsible thing to do to read it! Or perhaps I'm preaching to a congregation
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 31, 2010
I loved being invited to the prayer meeting before Church when I first came to know Jesus personally. We would pray around in a circle one at a time. It was great and I learned the many ways that people prayed, some long and fancy with “Thees” and “Thys” all through them and others just like a
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 1, 2010
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FOUR SETS OF TEETH
Simon was an Orthodox Jew. He had a Gentile friend, James, who noticed that Simon owned four sets of false teeth.
One day James asked his friend why he had so many sets of false teeth. Surprised by the question, Simon explained, "My friend, as you know, I keep kosher. I have
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Contributed by Michael Tkachuk on May 17, 2010
As an amateur photographer, I have often been asked to take photos of people at various events – maybe it was at a wedding, or for a school yearbook, or for the press. Well, some of the photos turned out very pleasing but some were not so flattering. The request has always been to destroy bad
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 27, 2010
Recently I laid a small circle of poison around a hill of stinging ants. Thinking the tiny granules of poison were food, the ants began to pick them up and carry them throughout the colony.
I returned later to see how well the poison was working. Hundreds of the stinging ants were carrying the
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 10, 2010
SEEING--AND BELIEVING
Two children were playing on a hillside, when they noticed that the hour was nearing sunset, and one said, wonderingly: "See how far the sun has gone! A little while ago it was right over that tree, and now it is low down in the sky."
"Only it isn’t the sun that moves; it’s
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Contributed by Chris Kelly on Sep 29, 2010
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OBEDIENCE, NOT UNDERSTANDING
Our denomination has a Pastor’s Retreat every year up in the mountains of S. Cal. As I was walking to breakfast one morning, I came across a monument that explained that when Billy Graham first started preaching, he was confused and had some doubts about God’s Word.
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Timothy Dolan on Oct 17, 2010
JESUS' FRUSTRATION
Living our lives, trusting Jesus, does not mean that we will never feel futility or pointlessness. The clear implication of Isaiah 49: verse 4 is that Jesus felt this way. How many times did Jesus have to say, "ye of little faith."
"When the disciples failed to grasp the
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 27, 2010
LAUGH OR DIE
In writing about Lincoln’s Civil War years, author Richard Hanser says that on September 22, 1862, the War Cabinet was summoned to the White House for a special session. Lincoln was reading a book as everyone came in. Secretary of War Stanton later said this of the meeting:
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GOD'S STANDARD FOR SIN
At a former church, a youth leader came up to me one day and said, "I'm trying to figure out the way God judges sin. The best I can figure it, I assume he grades on the curve like they do at school. You know, 70% good is a passing grade."
I had bad news for him. God has a
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Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Feb 14, 2011
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THROUGH THE DARKNESS
(John 1:1-14)
It’s a dark night and even though your car headlights are on and shining brightly, you notice how dark it is outside: it’s a dark night.
You have been driving through the night, a long way from your home, but you will soon be home.
Even after your long drive
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