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Tears Shed For Self Are Tears Of Weakness, But Tears Shed For Others Are A Sign Of Strength.

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Tears Shed For Self Are Tears Of Weakness, But Tears Shed For Others Are A Sign Of Strength.

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Walking Through Life

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On A Specific Day Marked On The Earth's Calendar, And In A Specific Place On The Earth's Map, The Son Of God Came To The Planet. It Was Love.

And All Of A Sudden, All Of My Sins Came Before Me. Everything I Had Ever Done Wrong That I Had Forgotten About Years Ago Came Into My Mind. And I Prayed, Lord, Forgive Me, May The Blood Of Jesus Christ Cleanse Me From All Of My Sins... Not Because Of My Good Works Or Because Of All The Things I Have Tried To Do, But Because The Lord Had Forgiven Me.

Living For Christ Is A Day-to-day Going On With Him. It Is A Continuous Dependence Upon The Spirit Of God. It Is Believing In His Faithfulness.

Man's Civility Is Lagging Behind His Technological Ability. It Could Mean Disaster And Catastrophe For The Whole World. We're All Sinners, Everyone Of Us, And A Radical Change Is Needed For All Of Us.

The Word Of God Teaches That Christians Suffer In Order That They Might Glorify God In Their Lives.

The Resurrection Blasts Apart The Finality Of Death, Providing An Alternative To The Stifling, Settling Dust Of Death And Opens The Way To New Life.

Being A Christian Is More Than Just An Instantaneous Conversion - It Is A Daily Process Whereby You Grow To Be More And More Like Christ.

Daily Motivation

Far Too Many Young People Today Have No Spiritual Roots. The've Been Deprived Of Values By An Agnostic, Contemporary Culture.

During This Christmas Season, When The World Seems To Be In Turmoil, Wars Are Breaking Out In Different Places, Crime Is Rampant, And Many Things Are Happening That Are Great Sins In The Sight Of God. But In That Crib Is The Person Who Grew Up To Save Us. And He Did.

The Gospel Never Grows Old. It Applies To Every Generation Alike. We Have To Make A Choice.

The Great Comfort In Knowing That Angels Minister To Believers In Christ Is That God Himself Sends Them To Us.

It Could Be That One Of The Greatest Hindrances To Evangelism Is The Poverty Of Our Own Experience.

Be To The World A Sign That While We As Christians Do Not Have All The Answers, We Do Know And Care About The Questions.

There Is Not A Flower That Opens, Not A Seed That Falls Into The Ground, And Not An Ear Of Wheat That Nods On The End Of Its Stalk In The Wind That Does Not Preach And Proclaim The Greatness And The Mercy Of God To The Whole World.

You Cannot Come To Christ Unless The Spirit Of God Brings You. But What If You Ignore His Warnings? Then You Are In The Gravest Danger, For Some Day God Will No Longer Be Speaking To You. Then It Will Be Too Late. Come To Christ While There Is Still Time. Christ, God's Greater Ark, Stands Ready To Welcome You To Safety Today.

All Mankind Is Crying Out For Guidance, For Comfort, For Peace.

When We Come To Christ, We’re No Longer The Most Important Person In The World To Us; Christ Is. Instead Of Living Only For Ourselves, We Have A Higher Goal: To Live For Jesus.

The Same Sun That Melts The Butter Hardens The Clay.

America's Founding Fathers Did Not Intend To Take Religion Out Of Education. Many Of The Nation's Greatest Universities Were Founded By Evangelists And Religious Leaders; But Many Of These Have Lost The Founders Concept And Become Secular Institutions. Because Of This Attitude, Secular Education Is Stumbling And Floundering.

There Comes A Moment When We All Must Realize That Life Is Short, And In The End The Only Thing That Really Counts Is Not How Others See Us, But How God Sees Us.

Salvation Is An Act Of God. It Is Initiated By God, Wrought By God, And Sustained By God.

People Have A Negative Impression Of New York That I Don't Think Is Quite Fair.

Most Of Us Follow Our Conscience As We Follow A Wheelbarrow. We Push It In Front Of Us In The Direction We Want To Go.

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In Some Ways, Christians Are Homeless. Our True Home Is Waiting For Us, Prepared By The Lord Jesus Christ.

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When My Time To Die Comes An Angel Will Be There To Comfort Me. He Will Give Me Peace And Joy Even At That Most Critical Hour, And Usher Me Into The Presence Of God, And I Will Dwell With The Lord Forever. Thank God For The Ministry Of His Blessed Angels.

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We Cannot Truly Face Life Until We Face The Fact That It Will Be Taken Away From Us.

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