Showing posts with label Commitment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commitment. Show all posts
Thursday, October 17, 2013

The Parable of the Ten Rooms

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This is how my parable begins. Let me call him John. John had a double story house, five plus five rooms. One day there was a gentle knoc...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

LOVE IS "I STILL KNOW WHO SHE IS".

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It was a busy morning, approximately 8.30 am, when an elderly gentleman in his eighties arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb....
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

50 Years Felt Like 5 Minutes

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On an airplane, I overheard a stewardess talking to an elderly couple in front of me. Learning that it was the couple's 50th wedding a...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

What Do You Make?

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The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He argued,...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Elizabeth Dirks Drowned as Anabaptist

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An Anabaptist lady being drowned for her belief Elizabeth Dirks was a trailblazer and a woman of great courage. Raised in a nunnery in ...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Cambridge Seven

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The Cambridge Seven C.T. Studd, M. Beauchamp, S.P. Smith, A.T. Polhill-Turner, D.E. Hoste, C.H. Polhill-Turner, W.W. Cassels I have b...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Disappointment is His Appointment

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Andrew Murray During a low period in the life of noted author Andrew Murray, he wrote the following words: “He brought me here. He will ...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

God's Chair

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A man's daughter had asked the local pastor to come and pray with her father. When the pastor arrived, he found the man lying in bed hi...

Following God in Obscurity

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In Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places , Eugene Peterson recounts the story of the fourth century church father Gregory of Nyssa whose bro...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

One Hundred Points

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This guy dies and goes to heaven where he meets Peter at the Pearly Gates. Before he can enter Peter gives him a few questions to answer. ...

Ruling By Being Obedient

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In the eleventh century, King Henry III of Bavaria grew tired of court life and the pressures of being a monarch. He made application to Pry...
Friday, November 12, 2010

Can You Sleep When The Wind Blows?

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Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands. Most people were reluctant to work on f...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Contribution and Commitment

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A pig and a chicken were walking by a church where a gala charity event was taking place.  Getting caught up in the spirit, the pig sugge...