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Imagine Yourself In A Place So Dark You Cannot ...
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 18, 2009 (message contributor)
"Imagine yourself in a place so dark you cannot see your hand before your face. Either you want it that way because you want to sleep, or because you’re doing something you don’t want anyone else to see, in which case the sudden coming of light would be an irritation to you, or you wish you could see because you keep running into things and bumping your shins or your head, and light suddenly coming in would be a welcome relief. Those are the only two reactions I can think of, to the sudden coming of light to dispel darkness. Irritation, or relief. Those are the two reactions Jesus gets." c.e.t.
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Why Do You Follow Jesus? Patrick Morley Has Some ... PRO
Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 12, 2005
Why do you follow Jesus? Patrick Morley has some important things to say about our answer to this question. "The American gospel has evolved into a gospel of addition without subtraction. It is a belief that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in ...read more
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Mark Twain Noted, "Most People Are Bothered By ... PRO
Contributed by Dana Chau on Jul 21, 2003
Mark Twain noted, "Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages ...read more
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More Of A Miracle Than Resurrection PRO
Contributed by Greg Buchner on Mar 28, 2005
Lee Strobel put it like this… “If we were holding a trial to determine the facts concerning the resurrection, and if we were to call to the witness stand every witness who personally encountered the resurrected Jesus and we cross-examined them for only 15 minutes, and if we went around the ...read more
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Knowledge Is Exploding At Such A Rate—more Than ...
Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Jan 18, 2005
Knowledge is exploding at such a rate—more than 2000 pages a minute—that even Einstein couldn’t keep up. In fact, if you read 24 hours a day, from age 21 to 70, and retained all you read, you would be one and a half million years behind when you finished. How can it be, in a world where half the ...read more
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In His Book, The One-Minute Manager, Kenneth ... PRO
Contributed by Brent Baker on Sep 13, 2005
In his book, The One-Minute Manager, Kenneth Blanchard recommends developing the practice of "one-minute praising," where the manager (or parent, spouse, etc.) tries to "catch someone doing something right" and then spend a full sixty seconds praising that person for the good deed. This is a lot ...read more
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