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God Has Three Sorts of Servants

God has three sorts of servants in the world: some are slaves, and serve Him from fear; others are hirelings, and serve for wages; and the last are sons, who serves because they love. ? Archbishop Secker

God Has Three Sorts of Servants

God has three sorts of servants in the world: some are slaves, and serve Him from fear; others are hirelings, and serve for wages; and the last are sons, who serves because they love. ? Archbishop Secker

Watson Misses The Obvious

The Psalmist tells us that the heavens declare the glory of God. But some people can miss the obvious. For example, extraordinary detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson were going camping. They pitched their tent under the stars and went to sleep. Sometime in the middle of the night Holmes wakes Watson up. "Watson, look up at the stars, and tell me what you deduce." Watson says, "I see millions of stars, and if there are millions of stars, and if even a few of those have planets, it's quite likely there are some planets like Earth, and if there are a few planets like Earth out there, there might also be life." Holmes replies, "Watson, you idiot, somebody stole our tent!"

Stats on Rudeness and Foul Language

In a 2002 survey of over 2000 adults in America, 8 in 10 said a lack of respect and courtesy was a serious problem. "Americans say that disrespect, lack of consideration and rudeness are serious, pervasive problems that affect them on a personal, gut level." "Americans say they are witnessing a deterioration of courtesy and respectfulness that has become a daily assault on their sensibilities and the quality of their lives." Although one of the basic ten commandments says to not take the name of God in vain, only 64% felt it was always wrong to use God's name in vain, only 50% of those in the northeast. 56% said it bothered them a lot to hear foul language in public. From Public Agenda survey of over 2000 adults, Aggravating Circumstances, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, released in 2002, which took a detailed look at what Americans are thinking about courtesy, manners, rudeness and respect. http://www.publicagenda.org/specials/civility/civility.htm

A Glove and The Spirit

Object Lesson (have a glove in front of the audience). A glove can accomplish nothing of itself. It just lies there. It has no power of its own self. But if I put my hand in the glove (demonstrate this), each finger of the glove moves with the movement of my hand. It's an instrument of my hand. The moving and direction come from my hand. This is how the Spirit empowers us once He comes into our lives and we yield control of our lives to Him.

Prayer Power from Knowing God

"Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing." -- (E. M.) Bounds

God's Existence and the Sun Rise

I believe in God like I believe in the sun rise. Not because I can see it, but because I can see all that it touches. -- C.S. Lewis

Reflecting on Natural Wonders

Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands, a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world. --Sidney Lovett

God Has a Sense of Humor

Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that. -- Catherine Marshall

A God We Could Understand Exhaustively

A God We Could Understand Exhaustively God, Trials A god whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a god in man?s image, and therefore an imaginary god. ?J. I. Packer, theologian

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