Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
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>> Many churches years ago had mourners benches. Charles Allen in his book God’s Psychiatry said “Today we want God’s blessing without the pain of God’s purging. we want sermons on how to win friends, how to have peace of mind, how to forget our fears. But we
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Baptist
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
Stephen Brow - "He didn’t come to keep us from suffering; He came to suffer as we must suffer. He didn’t come just to keep us from being afraid; He came to be afraid as we are afraid. He didn’t come just to keep us from
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 10, 2010
ADOPTED BY GRACE
I have three daughters. Oh the cats that we took from the pound. They are in cat heaven! But they could have been left at the pound, except that we DECIDED to take them because we WANTED to love them. There was nothing those kittens could do to make me love them!
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Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Feb 16, 2011
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SPIRITUALITY AND JUSTICE
Quoting Major Campbell Roberts when he spoke at the launch of this TSMP goal,
"Two hungers are emerging, a hunger for - Spirituality and a hunger for – Justice. If we can live out and help another find a relationship with Jesus that energises them to live and act justly
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Salvation Army
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Warren Wiersbe, "Preaching must be marked by three elements: conviction, warning, and appeal ("reprove, rebuke, exhort").
To quote an old rule of preachers, "He should afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted."
If there is conviction but no remedy, we add to
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Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Oct 29, 2006
QUOTE: "There is no life in the Scriptures themselves, but if we will follow where they lead, they will bring us to Christ; and so we find life, not in the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Frank Zerbel on Feb 4, 2005
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I can remember one Saturday afternoon in the 60’s as I was outside with the push mower cutting the grass for my father when two men carrying a box down our driveway caught my attention. They sat it down outside the front door and unpacked our first color TV.
It had a beautiful solid wood cabinet
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Contributed by Elena Bogdan on Apr 18, 2006
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I was in my second year of walking with Christ. Those who knew me closely, heard me say that my mission in life was to live for the same purpose Christ lived on earth: “to seek and to save the lost”.
And that’s how I lived my life from the beginning of my Christian life. Every day, before I
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Chris Surber on Dec 7, 2007
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My wife Christina and I always get up early to shop the day after Thanksgiving. This year we drove to a hotel that evening so that we could get up at 3:00 A.M. to get in line at Toys ‘R’ us to catch the door buster sales that morning.
This is something that we started doing years ago when we
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Christian Church
Contributed by Paul Steen on Dec 12, 2016
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When my wife and I got married, we were able to move into a small little house. It was just right for us two kids. We soon realized, however, that we needed to have a discussion about the division of duties.
I was the bigger of the two of us and we decided that I would be responsible for taking
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Calvary Chapel