Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 23, 2009
FAITH: REASON AT REST
The late Manley Beasley defined faith as a "reason at rest with God." To me, that's powerful, but it hits me even harder when I remember that he went on to say, "Faith is dependency upon God, and this God-dependency only begins when self-dependency ends." And what do we see
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Larry Lea, who used to serve as a pastor in Rockwall, Texas, has a course on the Lord’s Prayer. When he teaches people how to pray this petition -- “Your kingdom come” -- he asks them to draw an imaginary circle around themselves and not to emerge from that circle until all their priorities are in
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Steve Ownby on Mar 28, 2010
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BUT CAN HE SWIM?
A man and his dog were walking the beach when they came upon another visitor to the beach. The owner of the dog was proud of his dog's newly mastered feat, so he said to the visitor, "Watch this!" whereupon he tossed a piece of driftwood far out into the sea and the dog
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Pentecostal
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AN EXAMPLE OF GRACE
I just received a letter from a friend who just initiate a prison ministry in my home church, Viorica Negosanu… The first inmate she encountered was a lady, a doctor who murdered her best friend, cut her in pieces and spread them all over the city. She got life sentence. Now
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 13, 2010
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TARGUMS
More than 500 years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the Jews returned to Judea from their long time of captivity Babylon. About that time, Jewish religious leaders began to write commentaries on various Bible books that they called "Targums." One of these Targums dealt with the
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DO YOU WANT TO HEAR A REALLY BAD DAD JOKE?????
It was a nice summer day when 2 flies came upon a picnic lunch. Finding only baloney, they promptly ate their fill.
The flies then flew to a nearby well for a drink, then they sat on the pump handle to rest and talk.
After a few minutes, one said he
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 25, 2008
An archaeologist digging in the Negev Desert in Israel came upon a sarcophagus containing a mummy. He called the curator of a prestigious museum.
“I’ve just discovered the 3,000-year-old mummy of a man who died of heart failure!” the excited archaeologist exclaimed.
The curator replied, “Bring him
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Church Of God
Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 18, 2008
A young woman in England many years ago always wore a golden locket that she would not allow anyone to open or look into. And everyone thought there must be some romance connected with that locket and that in that locket must be the picture of the one she loved.
The young woman died at an early
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Baptist
Contributed by C Jordan on Nov 20, 2008
"The best food for you is the Word of God itself. Sermons and books are well enough, but streams that run for a long distance above ground gradually gather for themselves somewhat of the soil through which they flow, and they lose the cool freshness with which they started from the spring head.
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Note the high honor our Lord places upon marriage and the wedding ceremony in his very first miracle. It honors God when we come to a wedding pure and proclaim our trust in God for the marriage to succeed!
By his presence at the marriage feast, the Son of God said, ‘This is an honorable thing’
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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I once read a story about a mother whose love went the distance for her child. The mother in this story went to help out during harvest time. She took her child with her. She was following the custom of harvest time in Scotland, where the women would help. She placed her child in reach. But,
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United Methodist
Contributed by Steve Malone on Feb 4, 2003
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Mark Buchanan writes the following in, Your God Is Too Safe,
The Lord is deeply and passionately committed to our joy. Where did we get the idea that religion is a stiff, dull, flat business, all pursed lips and knitted brows and gloomy outlooks? Where did we get that portrait of the
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