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Flashbacks and warm feelings

Flashbacks and warm feelings. Matthew Five

Perhaps it happens most frequently with a photograph. We walk by the same picture hanging on the wall in our house every day, but on this day—we SEE it. We see it, and we remember, and it takes us back. For instance, on one wall of my home, there is a portrait of me lifting Amy’s (my daughter) veil to kiss her after she was just pronounced ‘…wife,’ with tears brimming in my eyes. Just like that, I am back in that wedding in the park and…

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Added by Christine on April 15, 2015 at 6:00am — No Comments

Getting back to the Gospel of Matthew

Getting back to the Gospel of Matthew. (Chapters 1 – 5, recap)

Greetings:…

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Springtime and Growth.

Hello.…

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George Muller

In the 1800's, English orphans were housed in disease-infested institutions, forced to work long hours, barely fed, and harshly treated.*

George Mueller (1805-1898) gave up all he owned and worked without salary for the sake of these orphans.

Without asking for money, he prayed three orphanages into…

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Added by Tammy on April 12, 2015 at 7:16pm — 4 Comments

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XV

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XV

1 John 3:7-10

John emphasizes the fact that the people to whom he is writing, including us that are saved today, are children of God. This identification must forever be recognized and embraced by the believer in…

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Added by Leonard T on April 12, 2015 at 5:29am — 1 Comment

PRAISE THE LORD...

*** PRAISE THE LORD FROM THE EARTH,YOU GREAT SEA CREATURES AND ALL THE DEPTHS.FIRE AND HAIL,SNOW AND CLOUDS ; STORMY WIND,FULFILLING HIS WORD ; MOUNTAINS AND ALL HILLS ; FRUITFUL TREES AND ALL CEDARS ; BEASTS AND ALL CATTLE ; CREEPING THINGS AND FLYING FOWL ; KINGS OF THE EARTH AND ALL PEOPLES ; PRINCES AND ALL JUDGES OF THE EARTH ; BOTH YOUNG MEN AND MAIDENS ; OLD MEN AND CHILDREN . LET THEM PRAISE THE NAME OF THE LORD , FOR HIS NAME ALONE IS EXALTED ; HIS GLORY IS ABOVE THE EARTH…

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Added by RAJESWAR YARLAGADDA on April 10, 2015 at 11:32am — 1 Comment

Let it be Springtime in your Heart!

Springtime is here! With the harsh winter the East Coast of the United States endured, (pictured is a Chicago city street, but no doubt Boston and the New York area)-- all are looking for spring tulips to pop through the ground!…

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Added by Christine on April 10, 2015 at 6:00am — No Comments

challenges to the church - pragmatism

Challenges to the Church - Pragmatism

August 29, 2005…

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Why does the Resurrection Matter so Much?

Why does the Resurrection Matter so Much? Easter, 2015. Last one.

Howdy. …

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Added by Christine on April 8, 2015 at 6:00am — No Comments

Excerpt from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's book "The Cost of Discipleship"

"First faith, then obedience. If by that we mean that it is faith which justifies, and not the act of obedience, all well and good, for that is the essential and unexceptionable presupposition of all that follows. If however we make a chronological distinction between faith and obedience, and make obedience subsequent to faith, we are divorcing the one from the other -- and then we get the practical question, when must obedience begin? Obedience remains separated from faith. From the point…

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Added by Leonard T on April 7, 2015 at 12:24pm — No Comments

On him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus

"On him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus."

Luke 23:26

We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of the work of the Church throughout all generations; she is the cross-bearer after…

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Added by Tammy on April 6, 2015 at 11:29pm — No Comments

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XIV

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XIV

1 John 3:4-6

“Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our…

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Added by Leonard T on April 6, 2015 at 2:55pm — 13 Comments

Mary Magdalene, devoted believer

Mary Magdalene, devoted believer. John 20.1-9…

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Niger: Muslims burn 68 churches

Posted on April 5, 2015 by creeping

Missing from mainstream media coverage in March. via The Alabama Baptist – A…

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Added by Tammy on April 5, 2015 at 3:05pm — 2 Comments

What Is Resurrection Sunday?

Resurrection Sunday

Some interesting stats:

In 2000, Americans spent nearly $1.9 billion on Easter candy.

Ninety million chocolate Easter bunnies are produced each…

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Added by Leonard T on April 4, 2015 at 4:54pm — 3 Comments

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Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XIII

Taking a Journey with the Apostle John – Part XIII

1 John 3:2-3

“Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this…

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Added by Leonard T on April 3, 2015 at 5:59pm — No Comments

Alone

Whoever cannot be alone should beware of community. Such people will only do harm to themselves and to the community. Alone you stood before God when God called you. Alone you had to obey God’s voice. Alone you had to take up your cross, struggle, and pray and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot avoid yourself, for it is precisely God who has singled you out. If you do not want to be alone, you are rejecting Christ’s call to you, and you can have no part in the…

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Added by Tammy on April 3, 2015 at 9:09am — No Comments