Monthly Archives: May 2007

what do you do with your potential?

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When I ask the question, “What do you do with your potential?” I’m talking something that is already within your capability to do. It is something already possible. Your gifts, your abilities, your resources, your knowledge, your experience are all things that affect and result in your potential! For believers, your very position as a child of God is the greatest factor in the size of your potential. The question is not “What you have?” but what are you doing with what you have? It is a question, not only for ourselves as individuals, but also for us corporately as a church… Continue reading

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Understanding His Sacrifice…

John Muir, the famous 19th century explorer and naturalist, traveled to Alaska in 1879. In his book, Travels in Alaska, Muir tells an amazing story of the Thlinkit Indians. Two Thlinkit tribes, the Stickeen and the Sitka, had been at … Continue reading

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A Mother’s Request

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A message I shared for Mothers Day 2007. Continue reading

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Mother’s Day a sign of laziness?

Anna Jarvis, the leader of the early 20th century movement to make Mother’s Day a national holiday, later fought against the holiday. She felt the day had become over-commercialized. In fact, she was so frustrated that most people sent greeting … Continue reading

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Death is not final.

“Someday you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of Northfield is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I shall have gone higher, that is … Continue reading

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