Contributed by Todd Schäve on Nov 5, 2001
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ASSERTIVE PRAYER:
Assertive prayer is expressing to the Lord our
feelings and thoughts, with all due respect and
humility, and making our requests known to the Lord,
and leaving the results up to him.
Jesus alludes to assertive prayer, when he said, "Ask
and it will be given to you; seek and you
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Andrew Chan on Apr 25, 2002
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A husband is advised by a psychiatrist to assert himself. "You don’t have to let your wife henpeck you. Go home and show her you’re the boss." The husband takes the doctor’s advice.
He rushes home, slams the door, shakes his fist in his wife’s face, and growls, "From now on, you’re taking orders
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Denomination:
Evangelical Free
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 10, 2007
“Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live forever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am
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Denomination:
Orthodox
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"To succeed in the world, you must assert yourself; To succeed in Gods
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 29, 2003
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Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must either be true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 15, 2007
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ASSERTING LEADERSHIP - The lion was proud of his mastery of the animal kingdom. One day he decided to make sure all the other animals knew he was the king of the jungle. He was so confident that he bypassed the smaller animals and went straight to the bear.
"Who is the king of the jungle?"
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Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 2, 2001
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“… the assertion [that human brings were made in the image of God] confirms the genuineness of each man’s freedom. Experience tells us that we are free, in the sense that we make real choices between alternatives and could have chosen differently, and theology agrees. Self-determining freedom of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2001
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Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must either be true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am
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Contributed by Sean Smuts on Jan 28, 2003
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"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear
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Denomination:
Mennonite
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 13, 2008
Pride asserts control over others and over outcomes. Pride takes all the credit. “I controlled that. I did it.” We have been given by God that ability to plan out a course of action. But we often are just planning our actions and setting goals, we are trying to control the outcomes. That is pride.
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Denomination:
Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Patriotism has become a mere national assertion, a sentamentality of flag-cheering
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
There arefew stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Whenever our Lord talked about discipleship, He always prefaced it with an IF, never with an emphatic assertion You
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Contributed by Todd Leupold on Sep 14, 2008
John Dawson, in his book Healing America’s Wounds, asserts:
“The wounds inflicted by men and women on each other constitute the fundamental fault line running beneath all other human conflict . . . It is the
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 14, 2002
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RUNNING THE COUNTRY, RUNNING MY LIFE
During his term as President of the U.S., Lyndon Johnson was somewhat overweight. One day his wife challenged him with this blunt assertion: "You can’t run the country if you can’t run
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Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2002
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In his book The Walking Drum, author Louis L'Amour makes this assertion: Up to a point a man¡¦s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 16, 2006
Follow The Money The National Geographic Society (NGS) garnered front-page coverage when they recently unveiled a restored version of The Gospel of Judas--which asserts that Judas was Jesus’ closest friend rather than a traitor, and that he only did what Jesus asked of him: NGS has invested over $1
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
"During his term as President of the U.S., Lyndon Johnson was somewhat overweight. One day his wife challenged him with this blunt assertion: "You can’t run the country if you can’t run yourself." Respecting Mrs. Johnson’s wise observation, the President lost 23 pounds." And yet this story not only
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Contributed by Tony Abram on May 24, 2009
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ON GENTLENESS
1. Although the world tells us to be assertive, the Word tells us to be gentle.
2. Tact is thinking twice before saying nothing.
3. Tact is the ability to think of things far enough in advance not to say them.
4. Tact is the ability to stand on your
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
Follow The Money The National Geographic Society (NGS) garnered front-page coverage when they recently unveiled a restored version of The Gospel of Judas--which asserts that Judas was Jesus’ closest friend rather than a traitor, and that he only did what Jesus asked of him: NGS has invested over $1
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