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Let’s face it. We’ve been created with a multitude of moods, passions, and desires. They all need managing. They must be under control or they will end up controlling us. Lewis Smedes says that self-control is like the “conductor of a symphony orchestra.” Under the conductor’s baton the multitude
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"Cain slew Abel, but Cain’s worst enemy was himself". - R E Neighbour
“There is an old Icelandic legend that contains its own lesson. There was a man who was constantly pursued by a terrible spirit which took the form of a dwarf.
His grain ricks were fired, his barns unroofed, his
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I am often asked, "How can salvation be free, but, yet, Jesus said that we cannot by His disciple unless we forsake everything for Him?" (Luke 14). Let me explain the answer to this question in a story.
Once there was a man who collected and traded in pearls. He had a fine collection of
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The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. Oddly enough, the winner was not the runner who finished first and fastest. It was the first runner who finished the race with his torch still lit.
I am not trying to outrun others.
I just want to run all the way to the
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Contributed by David Moore on May 30, 2008
1. “Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?” Isn’t is funny how we always have reasons why we cannot serve God, but we always find the time and the money to serve ourselves?
Someone put it this way:
• Isn’t it strange how a 20 pound note seems like such
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Video Illustration: Movie Pay It Forward.
Clip is from the beginning of the movie were a reporter becomes the recipient of a random act of kindness after his car is smashed at a police domestic scene. The reporter is given a new jaguar by a stranger to replace his old wrecked mustang. He responds
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God wants you to rejoice in your relationship!
*God wants our churches and our marriages to be alive and overflowing with joy. So the Old Testament tells us that the joy of the Lord is our strength; the New Testament tells us to “rejoice in the Lord always.” Then in Proverbs 5 in words too vivid
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
"HEY BOB!" BUILDING MARGIN IN YOUR LIFE
In his book, The Short List: In A Life Full of Choices, There Are Only Four That Matter, Butterworth tells of the time when he came home to his family after another weekend speaking engagement when his then youngest son decided to start talking at the Monday
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One day a very wealthy, powerful king died. His servants spread the unbelievable news all over the palace. He had died in his bed of natural causes.
"Where has he gone?", asked one of the king's wisest counselors
"Why, to Heaven of course!", answered all the
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Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that God is asleep when
it comes to nations, or that He is out of touch when it comes
to carnal banquets, or that He sits in Heaven wringing His
hands when it comes to godless rulers (and foolish
presidents!) who make unfair, rash, or stupid decisions.
Mark it
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Don’t underestimate the power of your PRAYERS for our Nation. George Flurry wrote: “Prayer is political action. Prayer is social energy. Prayer is public good. … Prayer is an act of patriotism in the largest sense of the word … The single most important action contributing to whatever health
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