Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2006
43% of American Christians “accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior “before reaching age 13. 64% did so before age 18.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 25, 2006
43% of American Christians “accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior “before reaching age 13. 64% did so before age 18.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2006
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66% of all Americans who accept Jesus Christ as their savior do so before they reach the age of 18. (Foster
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2006
"The idea of a substitutionary Christ accepted as an outward covering or refuge, instead of the power of "an endless life," is a cheat of the devil, and has been the ruin of thousands of souls. I fear this view of Christ, so persistently preached in the present day, encourages thousands in a false
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
The probability of a person accepting Christ between the ages of 5 - 13 is
32 percent. There is a four percent probability of doing so within the ages
of 14 - 18; and a six percent
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Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 15, 2009
Our submission to Christ is imperfect and progressive, John Piper writes: “From the time of our first saving acceptance of Christ, He is our King and Lord and Savior and Priest and Prophet and Counselor. All that He is, He is for those who are His. And then begins a life of faltering and growing
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Contributed by Andrew Hamilton on Oct 25, 2002
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ACCEPTING THE MARGINAL
In speaking to church leaders Dallas Willard says
“The leading assumption in the American church today – and the Australian one I’ll add – is that you can be a Christian but not a disciple. That has placed a tremendous burden on a mass of Christians who are not disciples.
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Christian Missionary Alliance
Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jan 18, 2004
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A lady says:
I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12, 3) and have recently completed my college degree. The last class I had to take was Sociology. The teacher was absolutely inspiring with the qualities that I wish every human being had been graced with. Her last project of the term was called
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Lutheran
Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 15, 2009
ACCEPTING OR COMPLAINING
In 2002, Lisa Beamer was interviewed by a writer for Today’s Christian Woman. She was asked "What happened to you on 9-11?" Lisa gave some details of the early part of that day and then says, "As soon as I heard that (it had been her husband’s flight), I cried out 'No!'
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Dec 31, 2008
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A PARDON MUST BE ACCEPTED
About the year 1830, a man named George Wilson killed a government employee who caught him in the act of robbing the mails. He was tried and sentenced to be hanged. However, President Andrew Jackson sent him a pardon. But Wilson did a strange thing. He refused to accept
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Steve Malone on Oct 6, 2004
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“To accept people is to be for them. It is to recognize that it is a very good thing that these people are alive, and to long for the best for them. It does not, of course mean to approve of everything they do. It means to continue to want what is best for their souls no matter what they do.”
AND –
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"It is an accepted law of ethics that punishment in the Court of Conscience, unlike that in Courts of Law, lessens
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion, it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered,
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Contributed by Greg Bond on Dec 27, 2009
ACCEPTING FORGIVENESS CAN BE DIFFICULT
I’m sure that many of you, just looking at this title, already have emotions running through your mind. Maybe accepting forgiveness from God and acceptance into His fellowship, is something you have struggled with personally, or you know one person, or
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Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Apr 13, 2010
ACCEPTING THIS PART OF THE PLAN
Years ago, the church I was serving did a cantata, during which one of the choir members gave a brief testimony. He was a beloved man who had been battling cancer. After acknowledging that he had asked all the questions and experienced all the emotions he simply
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2011
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ACCEPTING THE GOOD NEWS
A promotion by H. R. Block Inc. in 2001 offered walk-in customers a chance to win a drawing for a million dollars. Glen and Gloria Sims of Sewell, New Jersey, won the drawing, but they refused to believe it when an H. R. Block representative phoned them with the good
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ACCEPTANCE: SUCH A SIMPLE THING
Charles Shultz, creator and author of the Peanuts cartoon characters often conveys a Christian message in his comic strips. In one strip he conveys through Charlie Brown the need we have to be loved and accepted. Lucy demonstrates our human inability to love one
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Denomination:
Lutheran