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Great, inspirational stories are found all around us. The best of these to me are the ones that not only bring a smile to my face but also cause my mind to think and my heart to be challenged. Here is a wonderful story presented as true (though I have no way of verifying this). Take a moment and read it and then comment below on what you learned from its lines.
We started a study recently in the book of Jeremiah and I wanted to share the first lesson with you. I don’t know if I will post every service becuase the last time we tried uploading Bible Studies there just wasn’t that much of a demand. The space that the files take and the time they take to create needs to be balanced out with a demand. So I guess what I am saying is if you want Bible studies like this please take the time to either download the file or if you listen to it online click the “Like” button so I know you enjoy this type of information.
Originally posted 2011-05-17 13:17:37. Republished by Blog Post PromoterProblems always seem to come to us in a moment of time. They swoop in and grab hold like a great Eagle with it’s prey. Yet problems do not have to over throw us. In fact, we are told over and over in scripture through a mirade
Originally posted 2011-02-28 11:40:28. Republished by Blog Post PromoterKeeping the Main Thing the Main Thing Over the process of time it seems like people, organizations, and/or denominations get off track and forget what they are really supposed to do. It’s nothing new, even the disciples of the Lord got their missions orders mixed up when
Originally posted 2011-02-25 12:57:35. Republished by Blog Post PromoterIf your interested in news pertinent to our society, Christianity, and in a broader sense our entire world this is the place to come! Get PDF Tweet
For centuries one of the greatest methods for teaching children about important matters of life fables were used. In fact, every civilization, including our own, has their fable and antidotes. Of all of the ancient and modern story tellers though none is as well known as is the ancient fabulist Aesop’s.
Originally posted 2010-11-21 09:26:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter When God opened the box of my life It was jumbled pieces all around Looked long and hard at the contents And smiled at what he found!Painstakingly he took few pieces Sought to find its place All the time I sighed and squirmed Watched the smile
Originally posted 2011-01-13 14:48:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter (From The Torch: Here is a wonderful, classic story from Leo Tolstoy that addresses an age old series of questions. Read and comment on it below please!) One day it occurred to a certain emperor that if he only knew the answers to three questions, he would
A landscape gardener ran a business that had been in the family for two or three generations. The staff were happy, and customers loved to visit the store, or to have the staff work on their gardens or make deliveries – anything from bedding plants to ride-on mowers. For as long as anyone could remember,
Originally posted 2011-06-09 11:15:29. Republished by Blog Post Promoter At the close of this little volume it seems fitting to recount again a wonderful personal experience, narrated in The Sunday School Times of December 7, 1918. I do not remember the time when I did not have in some degree a love for the Lord Jesus Christ
Here is a lovely story by Laura E. Richards that teaches us the value of home. So many times we start thinking life would be better somewhere else when in fact our home just might be the sweetest, richest, most fantastic place on earth. And a short trip away just might be all that is necessary to make us see home in a new light!
The Bible is a mirror into which a man is urged to look and see his likeness. Or, better still, it contains a gallery of pictures showing the nature, progress and end of a life of sin. The desire of the Spirit is to lead the sinner down the line until He confronts him with an image of himself, and there cause him to be transfixed and cut to the heart with this sudden vision of his own moral likeness gazing at him from the verse or chapter.
Many years ago two salesmen were sent by a British shoe manufacturer to Africa to investigate and report back on market potential. The first salesman reported back, “There is no potential here – nobody wears shoes.” The second salesman reported back, “There is massive potential here – nobody wears shoes.” This simple
Here is a story I have run across on various sites I’ve visited over the years. It’s a wonderful illustration about Life. Please take time to read it and think about the truth it imparts. I do not claim authorship and in fact, it’s athor is unknown. A philosophy professor stood before his class
Most people that have been brought up around church for any length of time, have a general understanding of the term salvation. If asked they begin to explain that salvation was given to us by God when Christ died on the cross for our sins. However, very few know, or if they know fail to realize that the price that Jesus paid on Golgotha’s hill of sorrows was payment in full for the sins of “Whosoever will…” accept His wonderful gift of grace.
I stood on the streets of a busy town,
Watching men tearing a building down:
With a “Ho, heave ho,” and a lusty yell,
They swung a beam and a sidewall fell.
I asked the foreman of the crew,
“Are those men as skilled as those you’d hire if you wanted to build?”
“Ah, no,” he said, “no indeed,
Just common labor is all I need:
There are so many people in this world consumed with hatred. They feed the emotion within them little by little, nursing it through every slight real and imagined; they pet and coddle it when wronged or injured; and they make room for and favor it above all other emotions within them until finally they are totally engulfed with it.
So many of you have requested updates concerning my health status in regard to my Cancer that I figured I better get this news up just as soon as I could. When I first began my treatment back in late September my tumor was a whopping 15cm x 9 cm x 11cm (there were other estimates but this was the size my Oncology doctor used. As of my test last Tuesday the tumor is now measuring 10cm x 8 cm x 9 cm (this is still large and dangerous but it’s shrinking).
Originally posted 2011-04-03 14:51:46. Republished by Blog Post PromoterTEXT: (Rev 4:1 KJV) After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.
Originally posted 2011-07-16 16:24:44. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThere is a scripture found in James chapter five that has troubled me for almost the whole of my Christian life. It is found in verse sixteen. No, not the part about, “the effectual fervent prayer” availing “much” but the part about confessing our faults one to
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