704 articles on "religion"

Awareness = Possibility

Just as people often resist being awakened from physical sleep, they are much more resistant being awakened from spiritual sleep. Many people have had moments of spiritual awakening, only to ignore them and return to the comfort of their previous rou...

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The Two Building Blocks in Sermon Jokes

In general, we can say individuals laugh at two issues: surprise and misfortune. These two developing blocks are necessary for fantastic humor. A cartoon containing a lot of surprise would be a cartoon showing Pope Benedict XVI riding a skateboard. ...

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Gift of Love

God's grand plan unfolds through the exercise of the ordinary means of grace Word and Sacrament in the midst of His people who make use of their God-ordained gifts, and are intended to bring blessing to us and glory to God through ordinary liv...

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The Abundance of Jabez

Bruce Wilkinson, the author of the "Prayer of Jabez", published a follow-on book entitled, "Beyond Jabez" in 2005. One of the reasons that he wrote this sequel was to address some of the criticisms he had received because of the success of the "Praye...

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Dear God, I'm Mad As Hell

In Bible studies that I've taught, I've often had people talk with me afterwards and mention that they're struggling because they're not getting answers to their prayers. They want to have faith, they don't think that they&ap...

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Religion is Deeper Than Culture On Being An African-American Buddhist

The following commentary ran in the Religion Section of the Cleveland-based Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest Newspaper, Saturday, August 19, 2000. "Your father didn't teach you right, THAT'S your problem," I am told. It's late January...

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The Know the Secret of the Divine Mercy of Christ and He will Bless You!!

This message and devotion to Jesus as The Divine Mercy is based on the writings of Saint Faustina Kowalska, an uneducated Polish nun who, in obedience to her spiritual director, wrote a diary of about 600 pages recording the revelations she received ...

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First Holy Communion Invitations - Gorgeous Designs To Spread The Word

If your child is having their First Communion soon then you are likely planning a giant celebration complete with family, friends, church members and even classmates. You'll want all of those attending to have a great time at your party and Firs...

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Christ's Way of Salvation

Did you know that Christ has His own way of Saving men on the day of God's wrath? Born Again Christian believe that by just believing Christ and accepting Him as a personal savior is enough for us to be saved. Other sects and churches also said...

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Dip Into the Energy of the Feng Shui Metal Element

The feng shui metal element is considered to be one of the most powerful and creative elements in this ancient science. This material started to come into widespread use ever since the dawn of metallurgy in 6000 BC. About 2000 years later, feng shui...

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