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1. garland of roses said:    
   March 9th, 2006 at 2:33 pm

   I wonder if they charge $20 for parking…

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2. magledon said:    
   March 9th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

   looks like the life… I’d go there to show off my newest car in my collection.

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3. spurgeonator said:    
   March 9th, 2006 at 3:04 pm

   Here is another devotion by Spurgeon. Enjoy, be comforted, be challenged.
   BEFORE DESTRUCTION A MAN’S HEART IS HAUGHTY.
   Proverbs 18:12

   It is an old and common saying that “coming events cast their shadows before them.” The wise man teaches us that a haughty heart is the precursor of evil. Pride is as clearly the sign of destruction as the change of mercury in the barometer is the sign of rain, and far more infallibly so than that. When men have ridden the high horse, destruction has always overtaken them. Let David’s aching heart show that there is an eclipse of a man’s glory when he dotes upon his own greatness (2 Samuel 24:10). Observe Nebuchadnezzar, the mighty builder of Babylon, creeping on the earth, devouring grass like a beast, his nails grown like the bird’s claws, and his hair like eagle’s feathers (Daniel 4:33). Pride made the boaster a beast, as once before it made an angel a devil. God hates high looks and never fails to bring them down. All the arrows of God are aimed at proud hearts.
   O Christian, is your heart haughty this evening? For pride can get into the Christian’s heart as well as into the sinner’s; it can delude him into dreaming that he is “rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing.”1 Are you glorying in your graces or your talents? Are you proud of yourself and your spiritual experiences? Be careful, reader–there is a destruction coming to you also. Your flaunting poppies of self-conceit will be pulled up by the roots, your mushrooming graces will wither in the burning heat, and your self-sufficiency will become as straw for the dunghill. If we forget to live at the foot of the cross in deepest lowliness of spirit, God will not forget to discipline us for our good. A destruction will come to you, O unduly exalted believer, the destruction of your joys and of your comforts, although there can be no destruction of your soul. Therefore, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”2
   1 Revelation 3:17 2 1 Corinthians 1:31

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4. magledon said:    
   March 9th, 2006 at 3:36 pm

   Are you rebuking this Drive-In church Spurge?

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5. Reformed Pope said:    
   March 9th, 2006 at 3:42 pm

   I should probably tell you JereSpurgeon,

   I don’t think anyone actually reads your comments. I’m sure if YOU have something to say we’ll read it, but posting random books by Spurgeon….

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6. spurgeonator said:    
   March 9th, 2006 at 3:57 pm

   Pope, I just commented on the satire post, without a spurgeon quote. Easy does it, there have been plenty of Spurgeon devotions that have been encouraging and comforting, this one happens to be challenging. I’m not here to beat people into my perspective and I appologize for coming across that way. Some truths are more abbrasive than others.

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7. garland of roses said:    
   March 9th, 2006 at 4:09 pm

   It sure looks rather convenient to me… You wouldn’t have to discipline your kids…you could just put on a good movie for them and feed them some fast food you picked up on the way over! You wouldn’t have to be accountable to anyone…no one even has to know who you are!… and you wouldn’t have to know anyone else either…or care about them…just pay your tithe so that they can feed the hungry for you…. That way you can be assured that you have done your duty and gone to church (in your pjs and fuzzy slippers)…oh, and you’ve helped feed the hungry and exposed your children to religion!… I suppose you could have stayed home and turned on TBN…or does that constitute “the gathering of yourselves together”?

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8. Reformed Pope said:    
   March 9th, 2006 at 4:25 pm

   Spoog,

   I never know whether your quotes are encouraging or challanging because I never read them.

   If you are being abbrasive I wouldn’t know…or care…

   If you wish to post YOUR thoughts I’ll know and care, because I’ll read them but I’m not reading books by Spurgeon.

   If someone actually reads his comments and would like to come to his defense please do so now…

   …that’s what I thought

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9. magledon said:    
   March 9th, 2006 at 4:30 pm

   Did Spurgeon ever preach or write about being taken to the woodshed?

   Because I think that’s what has just happened to you Spuke…

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10. spurgeonator said:    
    March 9th, 2006 at 4:48 pm

    OK Spurgeonator is a stupid name, I don’t have a poster of him on my walls or anything, it was just the first thing to come to mind for a required name, so I should have waited for something else to come to mind. Maybe I’ll change it to The Shoveler or Mr Furious.

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11. John444 said:    
    March 9th, 2006 at 8:25 pm

    What morons! Don’t they know that it’s “bring the whole tithe INTO the store house … “

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12. catalyst said:    
    March 10th, 2006 at 6:12 am

    John444 on March 9, 2006 at 8:25 pm said:

    What morons! Don’t they know that it’s “bring the whole tithe INTO the store house … “

    Hahaha… SOMEONE GET THAT CHURCH A STOREHOUSE! STAT!

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13. John444 said:    
    March 10th, 2006 at 7:32 am

    catalyst said:

    Hahaha… SOMEONE GET THAT CHURCH A STOREHOUSE! STAT!

    Or we’ll bring the storehouse to you.

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14. Henri The Great said:    
    March 10th, 2006 at 9:02 am

    SpurgeonMan - I agree with Pope. I don’t even bother reading your comments, because I can buy his book from the bookstore.

    Rather then rip-off from someone else, why not share your OWN thoughts and opinions?

    :)

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15. Hannah Bourne said:    
    March 12th, 2006 at 4:45 pm

    At least the pastor says goodbye to each car that comes in I haven’t been to any church where the pastor stands at the exit and says goodbye and asks how you are doing.

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16. cara said:    
    March 14th, 2006 at 8:32 am

    the pastor at our church does exactly that…guess you have to move clear across the world for “good customer service” like that

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17. oinvu4uraqt said:    
    March 14th, 2006 at 5:27 pm

    Next thing you know you can call a number and have a whole church service delivered to your door. If it arrives in 30 minutes or less, you don’t have to pay tithes.

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