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Quotes For Today: Stewardship

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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. — John Calvin (1509-1564), The Institutes of the Christian Religion I promised to deal with the reason why none of the New Testament writers ever made the tithe the […]

Gold, Frankinsense And Myrrh

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Subject: Gold, Frankinsense and Myrrh Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 08:54:53 +0000 From: Harry Grove Newsgroups: uk.religion.christian You may care to read the following – x-posted from In article

Quotes For Today: Suffering

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Unhurt people are not much good in the world. Enid Starkie The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one. The old does not give way to the new without trying to overcome it. Reinhold Niebuhr Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, […]

Down – But Not Done

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Read: Psalm 37:21-29 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand. Psalm 37:24 Paul Wylie was skating in the 1988 Winter Olympics at Calgary. He was nervous as he began his program before 20,000 people and a TV audience of millions. Then, in his first […]

Quotes For Today: Suicide

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O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! William Shakespeare. Hamlet. Act i. Sc.2 Samson crushed himself and […]

Refuse To Be Average!

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"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment." A.W. Tozer, The Root of the Righteous

Quotes For Today: Temptation [1]

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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. Rita Mae Brown In this sort of temptation and struggle, contempt is the best and easiest method of winning over the devil. Laugh your adversary to scorn and ask who it is with whom you are talking. But by all means flee solitude, for […]

How Faith Affects Our Lives

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For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast (Ephesians 2:8, 9). After Jesus claimed to be sent by God, some were seeking to seize Him, having come to the conclusion that He […]

Quotes For Today: Temptation [2]

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Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon, That shall eat with a fiend. Chaucer The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him,for he cannot bear scorn. -Martin Luther The devil…the prowde spirit..cannot endure to be mocked.—Thomas More Forbidden things have […]

Thanking The Lord For Thorns

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– David Virtue “And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.'” – Luke 22:19 George Matheson was born in Glasgow, Scotland on March 27, 1842. He was born with poor eyesight but was able to […]

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