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Wisdom and understanding


"…..the price of wisdom is above rubies." Job 28:18 b.

"……..Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding." Job 28:28

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Have you found that you are going the wrong way?


"If you discover you have been going the wrong way, God allows U Turns."

Bill Board at the Lutheran Church in St. Jacob’s Ontario. Sept 13th, 1999

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The Evangelical Faith


"True Evangelical faith can not lie sleeping, for it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it overcomes evil with good, it has become all things to all people." Menno Simons—1539

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The Best Translation


"My wife and I were passing out New Testaments at the recent International Plowing Match at Keene, Ontario. A friendly farmer dropped by our booth to chat. He told me this little story.

"A farmer had a elderly friend who was 95 years young. So the farmer thought he would seek the old gent’s advice on which was the best translation of the Bible to buy.

After listening to the question the old gentleman sat quietly for a few minutes, then leaning back in his rocker he answered, " I guess I would have to say that the best translation is the one that is read."

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Sinners by Nature.


"We are not sinners because we sin, but we sin because we are sinners by nature. Only the blood of Christ can wash away the nature that makes us sinners. Only as we come to the cross of Calvary and seek forgiveness for our sinful ways will we be cleansed." Anon.

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Remember


"The mightiest oak in the forest is just a little nut that held its ground."

From a Chinese Fortune Cookie

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No Debate!


"Considerable debate among Evangelicals has surfaced regarding the role of God in natural disasters. This is healthy. But when it comes to the Church and what God is , there should be no debate. He is calling His children to a deeper and more integral relationship with Himself."

Byron Paulus in a recent article entitled IS GOD TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING?

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Marriage


"If our religion means anything to us at all, it must have some bearing upon our attitude to marriage, if it can be ignored here, ….. it is irrelevant everywhere. But for us, our devotion to one another is expressed within the context of our dedication to God."
Essentials of Christian Experience Frederick Coutts

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Compromise


"Compromise with the world will not make it any better! Compromise with the world always fails. It pulls down the man who proposes it and never raises up anyone else." Bramwell Booth

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Our Calendar and Our Cheque Book


"The two things that will indicate our priorities are our Calendar and our Cheque book. The way we use our money and the way we use our time indicates what has first place in our life."

Discovering Christian Life and Service.

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Holy Ground at the Mercy Seat


When a seeker kneels in true contrition at a….Mercy Seat, that form is holy ground; it is holy not because man has pronounced it such, but because there the Saviour and the sinner meet." William Burrows

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Keeping Priorities Straight


No one gets a blessing if they have cold feet, and nobody ever got saved while they had a toothache!" William Booth


It is not enough to simply challenge a non-Christian society by our presence. We must seek to transform it by our involvement…… Evangelism must go hand in hand with social ministry.
In social ministry we demonstrate the Justice of God. We seek to remove the evils and injustices which causes people to be in need of God. We need to:
Be ware of the issues
Be obedient to the Word of God
Be involved in world (affairs)
The Salvation Army

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At the Crossroads


"We in the Evangelical church are at a crossroads in Christianity. We need to rejuvenate the basic "born-again" teaching in our churches, because it is Biblical and it is the foundational structure of Christianity.." Anonymous

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The World and the church


" Anytime the world and the church teach the same thing, you need to investigate the subject a little further." Anonymous

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We do not sin in seclusion


"We do not sin in seclusion. Our disobedience always involves others. For we can not live in disobedient and it not show." Major Greg Simmonds

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Good Government


"Everybody says they want ‘good government, but you can’t hope for that until there’s an agree-upon standard of what’s ‘good’. At one time — when Canada was founded, as our Constitution says — that standard was taken from the Bible. And for Canada’s first 100 years, every generation lived better than its parents, as we followed those time-tested standards. Then, back in the middle of the Sixties, we took a sharp turn away from those standards. The result? Canada plunged into catastrophic debt, moral and social decay… People of my generation remember when most Canadians, even in the big cities, didn’t lock their doors. Today, our streets are cesspools of violence, our parks, our schools — even our homes — are not safe." Don Cook (cycling for The Christian Heritage Party) July of 2006

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Awesome Facts


"Consider some awesome facts. If America saw another Great Awakening, with in two to four years, Churches would receive between 20 and 30 million new converts! Based on historic patterns, a church of 100 in attendance would receive between 50 to 100 new persons in a single year…. In revival, the modern scourge of dry, stale-mated congregations would turn into a flood of glorious unity and love. Burned-out, defeated leaders would receive glorious healing and renewal. And best of all, God’s name would receive great glory."
Dr. G.R. Frizzell

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Broken Communication


"When we are not living in obedience we break our communication with God."

Major Greg Simmonds.
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Broken Communication


"When we are not living in obedience we break our communication with God."

Major Greg Simmonds.

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The Far Country And The Prodigal


"The far country (spoken of in Luke 15) has nothing to do with distances. The far country can be across the street. The far country is where God is not. The far country is where your spiritual inheritance is not. It is where God has not placed you nor called you." Dr. John Hagee

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