Contributed by Jim Kane on Nov 30, 2003
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If you want to develop the fruit of self-control, you have to honestly answer these questions,
1. What am I a slave to? Food? Lust? Power? Money? The Past? Drugs? Alcohol? Bitterness? Jealousy? Anger? Fill in the blank?
2. What do I have to say “no” to right now?
3. What do I have to say “yes” to
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 7, 2004
✎ Imagine you have moved to a beautiful beach front home on the Pacific coast (we’re using our imagination, so you may as well have your dream house). The movers have just left and you are faced with the daunting task of getting settled in. That’s when the phone rings. I call and say,
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 16, 2004
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If you have ever gone to see the Harlem Globetrotters you get two teams for the price of one. The second is called the Washington Generals. They have one purpose: Be doormats for the Globetrotters. The passively get stomped in basketball. It is their job to lose.
God did not call he church to
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Contributed by Warren Bird on Jan 18, 2004
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Have you ever been looking for someone in a crowd? Perhaps you’ve been to pick someone up at the airport, or been met yourself when you’ve gone to visit someone you haven’t seen for a long time. Think of the moment when you finally make eye contact with the person you are looking for. Suddenly, out
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Independent/Bible
Did you hear about the grandmother that bought her grandson a book of prayers?
The little boy read a prayer every night before he went to sleep.
One night he got in bed and had forgotten to read his prayer.
The lights were already turned off when he remembered to read a prayer.
So the little
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Dan Steadman on Jun 11, 2004
Sometimes you read biographies or hear speakers that sound a little like ‘the above’. It is estimated that during D L Moody’s lifetime, he traveled more than one million miles, spoke to more than 100 million people, and led hundreds of thousands, if not millions, to a personal relationship with
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Jun 11, 2004
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Communication experts point out that when you talk with another person there are actually six messages that can come through.
1. What you mean to say.
2. What you actually say,
3. What the other person hears.
4. What the other person thinks he hears.
5. What the other person says about
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Charismatic
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jun 19, 2004
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In the United States, you can be fined $5000 and imprisoned for up to a year for breaking an eagle’s egg, you can be imprisoned and fined for stealing a sea turtle egg, and yet our babies are being killed daily with little outcry. It is time we contact our legislators and tell them there must be a
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Contributed by Scott Malone on Mar 1, 2005
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“The new pluralism demands that you must not say that anyone else’s belief is inferior or, worse yet, flatly mistaken. To say someone is wrong is to be intolerant, to be close-minded and provincial, to be extreme and is impossible to reason with.”
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Mar 19, 2005
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Because the time’s going to come when you will pass from this earth, and you will stand face to face with God.
I don’t know exactly what’s going to happen at that point, but here’s one possibility.
I’ve asked my daughter, Dani, to help me with this.
Here’s what I think might happen:
You’re
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on May 29, 2005
You may remember the story of Aron Ralston, the 27-year-old from Colorado who had climbed 49 of Colorado’s major peaks — each measuring over 14,000 feet. On this particular day, he was rock climbing in Blue John Canyon in southern Utah. He was going up a 3-foot wide slot canyon, and as he was
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Methodist
“If you’re speeding down the freeway, the police might pull you over. But no one ever makes you take pit stops. You have to choose them. It’s the same with life. Emergencies force us to stop, but pit stops of joy are events we plan for and savor. It’s good to let go and bring a little relief
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 21, 2005
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Imagine that you have a big house and lots of land. Imagine further that a refugee shows up at the door asking if he might camp out in your backyard for a while. You are moved with compassion and grant him permission. A little later he asks if some relatives, who are also homeless, might also
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 23, 2005
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Suppose I gave you an automobile valued at $50,000. I say to you, "I’ll give it to you if you just give me $1." You say, "I thought you were going to give it to me." That’s not a gift. It might be cheap, but it’s not a gift. It is the result of your payment.
If I am saved by the grace of God
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