By Pastor Greg Laurie, September 10, 2014 blog, at: www.GregLaurie.com This story is told of President Franklin Roosevelt, who often endured long receiving lines at the White House. He complained that no one really paid any attention to what he said. One day, during a reception, he decided to try an […]
If you could sum up your reason for going to church in one word, what would that word be? You might respond that you go to church purely out of HABIT. There would be, of course, reasons for getting into this habit, and reasons for staying with it; but habit is
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From The Clergy of America: Anecdotes, pages 28-30, 1869, J. B. Lippincott Publishers, Philadelphia About a half century ago a Christian church was organized in a small town in Virginia. For some years it flourished, but after a while the pastor died, some of the members moved to different parts of the country,
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A vast majority of the American people believe there is a God. God is all powerful. He holds all the cards. You are here because he put you here. If he so chooses, God can decide how long you will stay here; and, if there is to be anything else for you after
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Jesus said, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you by God. How often have I longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks, but you were not willing.” –Luke 13:34 In the Biblical stories we see many wonderful blessings by God, but
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Published on the Joe McKeever website on August 27, 2013 (adapted). Dr. McKeever is the Director of Missions (retired) for the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans. “Pastor, the minute you decide church must always be exciting is the moment you begin turning the worship services into pep rallies. After that, it all
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Written by the wife of a Lutheran pastor at: www.iamtotallythatmom.blogspot.ca Dear Parents with young children in church, You are doing something really, really important. I know it’s not easy. I see you with your arms overflowing, and I know you came to church already tired. Parenting is tiring. Really tiring. I watch you bounce and
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“We have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place… –II Peter 1:19 There is a world of difference between the strict, monastic life of Thomas a Kempis, a monk in the
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“We have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place… –II Peter 1:19 If someone believes in God at all, it would be only logical for that person to wonder what it is God
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From C. S. Lewis in Mere Christianity: Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know that by experience. Now
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