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#8230;wickedness, When You Examine It, ... PRO
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 3, 2001 (message contributor)
“…wickedness, when you examine it, turns out to be the pursuit of some good in the wrong way. You can be good for the mere sake of goodness: you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong – only because cruelty was pleasant or useful to him … Goodness is, so to...
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Life's Onlookers
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004
Life’s Onlookers A man’s life is always more forcible than his speech. When men take stock of him they reckon his deeds as dollars and his words as pennies. If his life and doctrine disagree the mass of ...read more
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The Impact Of Attitude
Contributed by John Price on Feb 13, 2007
THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDE The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of Attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important: than facts, than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do, than appearances, ...read more
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As We Talked About My Research For This Sermon, ... PRO
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 10, 2005
As we talked about my research for this sermon, my wife said it seemed to her that the message of the New Testament on discipline in the church was that we should use the minimum action, or the minimum amount of force necessary to accomplish the desired result. In the comedy move “Police ...read more
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