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The Treasure that Turns Other Treasures to Garbage 1/26/2009
The Treasure that Turns Other Treasures to Garbage John Piper
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of
Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the
surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his
sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them
as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in
him, not having a righteousness of ...
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Bright Lights in a Dark World 1/23/2009
Bright Lights in a Dark World Adrian Rogers "Ye are
the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour,
wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for
nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot
of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on
an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and
put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it ...
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Invite Chivalry into Your Marriage 1/20/2009
Invite Chivalry into Your Marriage Judy Carden Finally
brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever
is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever
is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy
- think about such things. ~ Philippians 4:8 NIV
Love breeds chivalry, and accepts nothing less. When we
wait on the Lord, allowing Him to have control of our ...
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Speak Your Spouses Language 1/19/2009
Speak Your Spouses Language Whitney Hopler Your husband
seems to say one thing yet do another. Your wife seems to
expect you to read her mind. You and your spouse are frustrated
that what you heard each other say wasn't what was meant.
Sometimes it can be like your spouse is speaking a different
language from yours -- one you don't understand.
But you can learn to speak your spouse's ...
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One 1/18/2009
One song can spark a moment, One flower can wake the dream. One tree can start a forest, One bird can herald spring.
One smile begins a friendship, One handclasp lifts a soul. One star can guide a ship at sea, One word can frame the goal.
One vote can change a nation, One sunbeam lights a room. One candle wipes out darkness, One laugh will conquer gloom.
One step must ...
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A Man Without Fear 1/17/2009
A Man Without Fear "And He said, Certainly I will be with thee"
(Exodus 3:12).
Of course, if the LORD sent Moses on an errand, He would not
let him go alone. The tremendous risk which it would involve
and the great power it would require would render it ridiculous
for God to send a poor lone Hebrew to confront the mightiest
king in all the world and then leave him to himself. It could ...
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Handling the Losses of Life 1/16/2009
Handling the Losses of Life - Part 1 Dr. H. Norman Wright
"What is the loss in your life that you've never
fully grieved over?" Often I ask this seemingly
unusual but necessary question and about 80 percent eventually
discover a loss that's been neglected. Over the years I have discovered that most people travel
through life with unfinished business that acts as unnecessary
baggage. Many are not ...
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When Unclothed Is Unfitting: Thoughts On Selling with Sex 1/12/2009
When Unclothed Is Unfitting: Thoughts on Selling with
Sex John Piper
Jonathan Edwards once said that godly people can, as it
were, smell the depravity of an act before they can explain
why it evil. There is a spiritual sense that something is
amiss. It does not fit in a world permeated with God.
Ephesians 5:3 says that some things "are not fitting"
among saints." "Fitting-ness" ...
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Abraham Offers Isaac 1/10/2009
Abraham Offers Isaac Genesis 21:1-21; 22:1-19; Psalm 6:8-10; Proverbs 3:3-4
And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did
for Sarah as He had spoken. For Sarah conceived and bore
Abraham a in his old age, at the set time of which God had
spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his who
was born to him-whom Sarah bore to him-Isaac. Then Abraham
circumcised his Isaac ...
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The Old Person We Will Become 1/9/2009
The Old Person We Will Become Janice Shaw Crouse Will you
like the old person you will become? Is God remaking you
in His Image?
In the past ten days, I have spoken at two women's groups
and used the story of Rahab, the pagan of the
Old Testament, working in the flax on her rooftop as she
waited for the Israelites to come to destroy the city of
Jericho as an illustration of how to ...
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Strong Words 1/8/2009
Strong Words
Examine yourselves to see if your faith is really genuine
(2 Corinthians 13:5, NLT).
Dear friends:
One day I was talking to a young man who was somewhat of a prodigal.
I said to him, "Do you believe in Jesus?
"Yes."
"Do you believe He died for your sins?"
"Yes."
He had grown up in the church and even gone to Christian ...
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The Significance of Sexual Intimacy 1/6/2009
The Significance of Sexual Intimacy Dawn Eden One day,
when I was about eight years old, during a creative dramatics
class where the teacher seemed willing to talk about anything,
I blurted out a question that had been on my mind for a while:
"How did sex get started?"
The teacher, a woman in her twenties, was caught off guard.
She hemmed and hawed for a moment, but I persisted: ...
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Margin or Marginless? 1/5/2009
Margin or Marginless?
God, listen to me shout, bend an ear to my prayer… You’ve
always given me breathing room, a place to get away from
it all. Psalm 61:1, 3 (MSG)
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A lot of people are on overload and headed for a crash. Consider
these statistics:
· People now sleep 2½ fewer ...
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An Unintentional Tribute 1/4/2009
An Unintentional Tribute For reading & meditation: Matthew 27:32-44 "'He saved others, ' they said, 'but
he can't save himself!' " (v. 42)
What humiliation and shame our Lord endured for us on the
cross of Calvary. Cicero, a Roman philosopher, said of
crucifixion: "Far be the very name of a cross not only
from the bodies of Roman citizens, but from their imaginations,
eyes and ears." But ...
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Fast When You Hunger for God 12/31/2008
Fast When You Hunger for God Whitney Hopler Editor's Note: The following is a report on the practical
applications of Scot McKnight's new book, Fasting:
The Ancient Practices, (Thomas Nelson, 2009).
The ancient practice of fasting is a natural way to express
your faith with your whole being -- body and spirit together
-- whenever you experience a sacred moment that compels
you to ...
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The Arrival 12/26/2008
The Arrival by Max Lucado
God had entered the world as a baby.
Yet, were someone to chance upon the sheep stable on the
outskirts of Bethlehem that morning, what a peculiar scene
they would behold.
The stable stinks like all stables do. The stench of urine,
dung, and sheep reeks pungently in the air. The ground is
hard, the hay scarce. Cobwebs cling to the ceiling and ...
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the power of your thought 12/16/2008
One great asset that we have is our thought. Nothing not
even the almighty God interferes with it. But whatever
we give it to can make use of it, including situation of life
and circumstances; spirit and human. Our thought has an
awesome power that can do anything that comes to it, and
that can be used to do anything by whichever power will give
it to. As human, you control the awesome power of ...
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Starting and being truthfull 10/23/2008
Why is it that when you meet a guy and your talking learning
about each other.Ladies will be up fron but the guys will
avoid and talk about things they dont know or do.What do
I mean??I mean that ladies will say things they like to do
for fun and some guys will say Oh I like doing that aswell, but
later on in the relationship the guy then says oh babe I really
dont like doing that.Please when you ...
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In His Time 10/10/2008
" In His
Time" is my favourite song that always remind me Our
Heavenly Father often prepare the best for us which we may
not understand at the moment.Always remember God has his
time to do for us, so on need to be hurry. Pray and listen carefully,
everything is in Him Time. ...
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Reputation Versus Character: 10/6/2008
“But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance,
or the height of his stature; because I have refused him:
for the Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the outward
appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” 1Samuel 16:2.
It was not very long after the Flood that God’s people became
more concerned with exterior glitter than inward ...
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A Father For All Time! 10/1/2008
A Forgiving Father! "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
(1 John 1:9)."
An Affectionate Father! "...I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore,
with loving-kindness have I drawn thee (Jeremiah 31:3).
A Trustworthy Father! "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth;
it shall not ...
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How Do You Win A War? 9/28/2008
How do you actually win a war? We all go through wars with
our daily lives. The military is fighting any number of
wars all around the world at any given time. Some make the
news, others do not. With the military the advantage would be to send in more
troops, change tactics, call in the reserves, drop bigger
bombs, etc. On a personal nature you will want to get your
friends to side with you, ...
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Juggling Life 9/27/2008
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five
balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, friends
and spirit, and you're keeping all of these in the air.
You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you
drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls: family,
health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be ...
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God Continues To Show The Way, The Truth, The Life 9/24/2008
It is a glorious achievement to master one's own temper.
Though I am not there yet, I do find that I am many times better
then when I was younger and just ran into another example
in the last few days and I would like to share with you if you
do not mind. There was a situation that happened at the beginning of
the week that depending upon my reaction to it could have ...
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Cleaning Up Your Act 9/22/2008
When I was in junior high, a lady offered me some tropical
fish. When I told my mother of the offer, she was willing,
but we needed an aquarium. It was actually my mother's idea to be creative at that
point. She recalled an old-fashioned gas pump that was
rusting in an open field. Most of you aren't old enough
to remember, but gasoline pumps used to have big glass containers
at the top. A ...
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BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP ON JESUS... 9/19/2008
FOUR KEYS TO FOCUSING ON GOD
1. What you see. (Psalms 101:3)
2. What you hear. (Romans 10:17, Psalms 105:2 & Eph.
5:19)
3. What you read. (Joshua 1 -9, Psalms 1:1-3 & 119:11,
105 2 Tim. 4:2 & Heb. 4:12)
4. What you do. (1Thes. 5:17, Eph. 6:11, Rom. 12:2, Luke 9:23 Matt. 6:19-21, 28:19-20 & Heb. 10:24-25)
AND FOR A COUPLE OF VERSES THAT SUMS ALL ...
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A Man Was Complaining 9/9/2008
Oh Lord, please have mercy on me, I work so hard, meantime
my wife stays at home, I would give anything if you would
grant me one wish "switch me into my wife" she's
got it easy at home I want to teach her a lesson of how tough
a man's life is. As God was listening he felt sorry for this soul and granted
his wish. Next morning the "new woman" wakes
up at dawn, makes lunch boxes, prepares ...
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The Missing Rib 9/8/2008
A girl in love asked her boyfriend. Girl: Tell me. Who do you love most in this world? Boy: You, of course! Girl: In your heart, what am I to you? Boy: The boy thought for a moment and looked intently in
her eyes and said, "You are my rib. It was said that
God saw that Adam was lonely, during his sleep, God took
one of Adam's rib and created Eve. Every man has been
searching for his missing rib, ...
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Grab A Tissue Or Stay Away, The First Time You Believe 9/5/2008
There was once a man who didn't believe in God, and he
didn't hesitate to let others know how he felt about
religion and religious holidays. His wife, however, did
believe, and she raised their to also have faith
in God and Jesus, despite his disparaging comments. One snowy Eve, his wife took their to church, and
he stayed home. A while later, the winds grew stronger and
the snow turned ...
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It Is God Who Giveth These 9/3/2008
Years ago a young man knelt with his pastor and prayed as
he committed to God his tithe. His first week's pay
was $10.00 and the tithe was $1.00. As he grew older he became
more prosperous and his tithe was $7.00 a week, then $10.00.
He moved to another city and soon his tithe was $100 a week,
then $200, then $500. One day the younger man sent his old friend a wire, "Please
come see me." The ...
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