Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jul 18, 2005
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Toot and Tumble! (07.22.05--Pride--2 Chronicles 26:16)
Sometimes we just amaze ourselves when it comes to our own ability to work things out. You know, when faced with a troublesome situation, we come up with a problem solution that even we didn’t see coming.
The story is told of two ducks and a
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Lutheran
Contributed by Glenn Robertson on Nov 15, 2005
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In The Chronicles of Narnia, several young children represent Christians in a world of dragons, elves, unicorns, and many other mythical creatures. One of the children is a young boy named Eustace. Eustace is a very selfish boy. He always tries to see life for how it best benefits him. What he
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Baptist
Contributed by Rodney Fry on Jan 14, 2007
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Study 1 Chronicles 13:1-14 and 1 Chronicles 15:1-28. Tell the entire story of David’s failed attempt to bring the ark of God into Jerusalem. Point out the fact that David admitted the reason for the failure in 1 Chronicles 15:11-15. When they acted in the “prescribed way,” they were successful.
Our
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Baptist
Contributed by Roy Carter on Dec 4, 2005
And near the end of Book 3 of The Chronicles The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as Edmund and Lucy find that they have to go back to their world and will not be coming into Narnia anymore
Lucy sobs, “It isn’t Narnia, you know, it’s you. We shan’t meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Glenn Teal on Dec 9, 2005
One of the more touching scenes in the Chronicles of Narnia the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe comes near the end after Edmund has fallen under the spell of evil. He has become obsessed with Turkish Delight to the point where he betrays his own brother and sisters.
Once Aslan has forgiven him –
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Alan Stokes on Mar 1, 2001
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Carmine DeSena in The Air Down Here (Chronicle Books, 1995, p. 7) states, “There’s a lesson my grandmother use to recite: ‘The world is like a hand and all the people its fingers. If you hate and destroy one
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Holiness
Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 24, 2010
April 2, 2008
North Korean Students Arrested for Reading the Bible
This news is from Free North Korea Broadcasting.
Ten college students in Ham Kyung Book Do Chung, North Korea, were recently investigated and arrested for reading a Bible and watching a video CD about the Bible. According to Free
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Baptist
Contributed by Kerry O'neill on May 13, 2006
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There are 2 popular traditions in Africa: drinking tea and playing soccer. However, these traditions are not unique to Africa, but were brought to the continent by the British. Even when it is very hot, each afternoon in many parts of Africa they pause to drink hot tea. Why? Because the British
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Tim Adams on Nov 30, 2009
2 Corinthians 7:1,“Let us cleanse ourselves” - that means we would do a good job if we were just as fond of straightening our own selves out as we are to find the faults of others. It is God’s Holy Spirit that will do the work but we must enter in to an active cooperation with God on this matter.
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Baptist
THE WOMAN AND ACTS 2:38
An elderly woman had just returned to her home from a church service when she was startled by an intruder. As she caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables, she yelled, "Stop--Acts 2:38!" (..repent, turn from your sin..".).
The burglar stopped dead
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Acts 2 can be divided into 4 main events all related to the arrival of the Holy Spirit:
I. The Arrival of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-4)
II. The Reaction to the Holy Spirit's Arrival (Acts 2:5-13)a. Amazement (Acts 2:5-12)b. Mockery (Acts 2:13)
III. The Explanation of the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 2, 2007
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POLYCARP(2nd Century)
Can you imagine what it was like for the church in Smyrna as they watched their beloved and aged pastor burn at the stake? Polycarp was his name. he was a disciple of Jesus’ disciple, the Apostle John. One could tell it immediately because he possessed the same tenderness and
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Nazarene
Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 5, 2012
There are 2 ways of handling pressure:
One is illustrated by a bathysphere, the miniature submarine used to explore the ocean in places so deep that the water pressure would crush a conventional submarine like an aluminum can. Bathyspheres compensate with plate steel several inches thick, which
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Baptist
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Aug 27, 2012
13 years ago, there were people running all over the place, buying up food and bottled water and gas and everything else they could think of, just in case something happened with all of that Y2K stuff. They did all of that just in case they were without power, or open food stores for a few days.
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