Contributed by Jesse Bennett on Nov 9, 2008
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NEWTON AND AMAZING GRACE
A long time ago, a man truly experienced God’s grace His name was John Newton. Though he was brought up in the church as a child, he became a calloused man full of anger, pain, and uncertainty. Because of that, He experienced many troubles.
At one time, he was a
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Apr 26, 2009
LEGACY: THE AMAZING RANDI
How many of you have heard of "The Amazing Randi?" He was a stage magician, "mentalist," and escape artist (in the tradition of Houdini). He once escaped from a block of ice and once escaped from a straitjacket while hanging upside-down over Niagara Falls. He once broke a
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I have been amazed at the story coming out about the BTK killer. BTK stands for Bind, Torture and Kill, an acronym that 60-year-old Dennis Rader gave to himself after killing 10 people, starting in the 1970’s. (PPT:Here is how he looked in his arrest photo, and here is how he looked in his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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It was absolutely amazing. I was in West Africa—Timbuktu to be exact—and the missionaries were telling me that in that culture the larger the women were the more beautiful they were thought to be. In fact, a young missionary who had a small, trim wife said that the nationals had told him she was a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
It’s amazing to think that the creator of the heavens and the earth wants to have a personal relationship with me! As Stuart Hamlin wrote:
“How big is God? How big and wide his vast domain?
To try and tell, these lips can only start.
He’s big enough to rule this mighty universe;
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 11, 2010
The Continental Divide is an amazing place. At the Divide, raindrops can fall to the earth just inches apart but end up in oceans in opposite ends of the world. Where the rain drop falls makes all the difference in where it ends
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jul 23, 2010
How amazing was the news story of the 15-month-old boy who survived the train accident in May this year.
It all took place in a split second but for the grandmother who looked away for just a moment from the pram she was pushing, it must have seemed like eternity. When she turned back, the pram
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 14, 2011
OUR AMAZING FIVE SENSES
Our five senses give us some astonishing capabilities. We can see a candle’s flame 30 miles away on a dark, clear night, and smell a single drop of perfume diffused in a three-room apartment. We can taste .04 ounce of table salt in 530 quarts of water. Our sense of touch
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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AMAZING GRACE – 7 VS.
A little-known fact is that when this song was penned nearly 200 years ago by John Newton it was not titled "Amazing Grace". Its original title was "Faiths Review and Expectation".
It also had seven verses and not four as originally written.
Verse 1
Amazing grace! How
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Pentecostal
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Ravi Zacharias tells the amazing story of a young Christian in Vietnam. He writes, “I was ministering in Vietnam in 1971, and one of my interpreters was Hien Pham, an energetic young Christian. He had worked as a translator with the American forces, and was of immense help both to them and to
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Methodist
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Isn’t it amazing that it took an atheist, Bertrand Russell, to remind us of this insight? Russell said: “Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.”4
4. Rick Warren. The
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Contributed by Mike Mcguire on Feb 8, 2007
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The botanical life of most trees is amazing. Often when a tree is damaged and the trunk is cut down, a new shoot will come up out of the stump or roots. As long as the roots are healthy, it will try to live. It will put out new shoots and eventually try to flower and reproduce. It keeps adapting to
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Baptist
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 24, 2007
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The world wide web is amazing all that information being passed down phone lines coming down onto our screens from all over the world right into our homes, I don’t really know how it works, its mind boggling, But I know it does work and I enjoy it.
Over the last few months in our house the
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Baptist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Sep 25, 2008
California has a amazing aqueduct system that brings water from the north to the south. Along the way, they have posted signs that say "Stay out of Aqueduct." You would think that would be obvious to not get in a long, deep, dark, canal of water,
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