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God Shook My World

By: admin | Date: September 22, 2018 | Categories: devotional

God Shook My World at an EDM Concert I was rolling on Ecstasy when the scales suddenly fell from my eyes. Jonathan Tjarks| September 20, 2018 “At some point, I realized that it doesn’t make sense for Scripture to correspond with 21st-century science. Was Moses supposed to come down from Mount Sinai with the theory […]

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Simple Faith

By: admin | Date: February 18, 2016 | Categories: stories

Sermon Illustration #2— FAITH: Buried in an Avalanche June 15, 2013 – Mary Naegeli Sermon Illustration #2— FAITH: Buried in an Avalanche I was washing the dishes, listening to our local news radio station, when the news anchor started a phone conversation with Jeff Eckland, a skier who was caught in an avalanche at Kirkwood near Lake […]

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The Man Who Broke a Mountain

By: admin | Date: September 18, 2015 | Categories: encouragement

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-single-handedly-carved-road-mountain/ For years, he was called a madman for toiling away on the rocks. But Dashrath Manjhi was not crazy. His quest to break a path through a small mountain to benefit the entire village is now legendary because he carved an entire road with hand tools, working for 22 years. Manjhi started off his […]

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The Romans Road to Salvation

By: admin | Date: September 6, 2015 | Categories: devotional

The Romans Road to Salvation (Memorize this) Romans 3:23   My Reality: Ruin “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 6:23   My Just Reward “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 5:8     God’s Remedy “God demonstrates his own […]

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Doubting My Doubts

By: admin | Date: July 27, 2015 | Categories: quotes

“The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.” – Gustave Flaubert “The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.” – Pierre Abelard  

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Doubt: Pros and Cons

By: admin | Date: May 8, 2015 | Categories: quotes

“One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of YES or NO.” – Thomas Carlyle Thomas (the disciple of Jesus) did that: “My Lord and My God.” – John 20 Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance […]

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Rosa Parks – Mustard Seed Faith

By: admin | Date: May 31, 2014 | Categories: history

Matthew 17:20 Faith of a mustard seed I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Rosa Parks – Mustard Seed Faith Friday night, our own Juanita Ashe […]

Faith is the Switch that releases the Power

By: admin | Date: | Categories: stories

All it takes is switching a small trigger to blow up a building. Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium was built in 1966 to serve as the home of baseball’s Atlanta Braves, and football’s Atlanta Falcons. In August of 1997, the stadium was demolished. The entire stadium was brought down with the turn of a switch. Of […]

Willing to Jump

By: admin | Date: May 5, 2012 | Categories: history, stories

In his book One Crowded Hour, Tim Bowden describes an incident in Borneo in 1964.  Nepalese fighters known as Gurkhas were asked if they would be willing to jump from airplanes into combat against the Indonesians.  The Gurkhas didn’t clearly understand what was involved, but they bravely said they would do it, asking only that […]