694 articles related to "religion"

Don't Lose Hope

There are people who have nothing to look forward to. Without hope, without expectations, without something to look forward to beyond today, you will just give up. Yes, the Return of Christ is the greatest hope there is, but if you have no hope for t...

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Prayers God Answers - Going To A Friend At Midnight

In Luke 11:5-8 we read a parable that Jesus taught the disciples. Luke 11 is the story about Jesus teaching His disciples how to pray. And while this parable isn't technically a "prayer that God answered," by asking some questions about this par...

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Searching for the Kingdom

Henry Mora saw an opportunity and seized the day. A gold detector tested positive near the patio in the front yard of his Montclair, California, home and he figured this might be something big. So he grabbed a shovel and started digging. While he on...

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On Discipleship

Lillie Langtry entered the world in 1853 as the only daughter in a family of seven children born to an English minister and his wife. Blessed with better-than-average resources, she grew up in circumstances of relative ease, married a man of means he...

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Experience Versus Truth - Which Do We Choose?

Something that we all come to recognize at some point is that experience is a very powerful teacher. The things that we have heard and seen may touch our lives, but our experiences, which combine hearing, seeing, and feeling, have a much deeper impac...

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Eat, Pray, and Love: Lessons Christians Can Learn to Live More Purposefully Today

Although I have yet to read the book, "Eat, Pray, and Love" I did see the movie and really enjoyed it. Watching the movie generated some of my own ideas about how I, as a Christian, can incorporate some of these great disciplines in my own life. I le...

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Catholic Bible Study Supplies: The Essentials

Bible Study Supplies First and foremost, you will need a good Catholic bible. Picking up the old, dusty bible that has been in your family may not be advisable. It may be of an older translationthe language and phrasing may be archaic. And, if it is...

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Life is Not Fair

There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they su...

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David and Goliath: How To Become An Overnight Success

The story of David's victory over Goliath has inspired millions of "little" people to believe that, even though the odds were against them, they could win. It is the story of a young shepherd boy who no one had ever heard of, but who defeated a ...

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A Certain Order of Things

Adventure looms close on my personal horizon. Vacation time arrives next week and I am traveling to a place I have never been before, the Western United States. I'd watched a PBS special last summer and felt a distinct pull to go to Yosemite Nat...

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