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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
Ready & Faithful
Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
Help your church understand God's plan in pain
From R. Paul Stevens: Christian priesthood is not a matter of being religious and Mr. Goody two shoes but of serving God and God’s purposes in the nitty gritty everydayness of life in the world, not a matter of sacred times and sacred places but ordinary times and ordinary places, not a matter ...read more
Scripture: Romans 15:15-16
Tags: Everyday Life, Priestly
Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ
Bono, lead singer of U2, said this: "Look, whatever thoughts you have about God, who God is or if God exists--most will agree that God has a special place ...read more
Scripture: Romans 15:26
Tags: Poverty, Poor, Helping Poor
The best acronym I have ever seen is H-O-P-E: Hold ...read more
Scripture: Romans 8:28-31
Tags: Faith, Heaven, Hope
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
SERMON BLOOPER!!! One of our youth pastors was leaving to go to another church on the same day my wife and I returned from a mission trip to France to encourage our missionaries there. As we closed the service, I brought my wife on the stage on live tv and illustrated how French churches "greet ...read more
Scripture: Romans 16:16
Tags: Humor, Preacher Bloopers, Holy Kiss
ANDREW MURRAY: "God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life that ...read more
Scripture: Romans 12:1-2
Tags: Surrender, Consecration, Commitment To Christ, Lordship Of Jesus
BUMPER STICKER CONSCIENCE This is a true story. I have a pastor friend in Alabama named Bill who was driving to speak at a church in another county and he was running late. He was driving about 20 miles over the speed limit, when suddenly he remembered he had a Christian bumper sticker on his car. ...read more
Scripture: Romans 13:1-7
Tags: Conscience, Obey Authorities
Biblical Scholar, Dr. Richard Halverson, once said, “When the Greeks got the Gospel, they turned it into a philosophy; when the Romans got the Gospel, they turned it into a government. When the Europeans got the Gospel, they turned it into a culture........ and when ...read more
Scripture: Romans 1:15-16
Tags: Church, America, Gospel
DOES YOUR GOD BLEED? A little boy went up to a missionary Sunday School leader in another country. The boy said, "I like what you say about the God of the Bible but I can’t see him. But if I go to the temple I can see my God." The missionary said to the little boy, "Son, may I ask you a ...read more
Scripture: Romans 5:8
Tags: Salvation, Cross, Blood Of Jesus
Paul Washer is a powerful preacher and evangelist. He once had a seminary student send him a message. He was afraid that he was too bad to enter the ministry. He sent him a message that simply said, "I think I am too wicked to be in the ministry." And Paul Washer wrote him back and said, "You are ...read more
Scripture: Romans 3:19-26
Tags: Assurance, Confidence, Reliance On God
Un día un hombre cayo de un barco y el barco se fue sin darse cuenta. Pasó horas en el agua fría, se estaba acercado a las rocas peligrosas de la orilla, y el hombre ya estaba al punto de sumergirse para nunca más respirar cuando vio al horizonte una lancha de lujo que venía en su dirección. ...read more
Scripture: Romans 5:1-20
Tags: La Gracia De Dios, Seguridad De La Salvacion
Denomination: *other
Un día, un hombre rico estaba caminando por el bosque, y encontró tirado allí un carro muy viejo. El carro estaba casi destruido por el oxido. Ratas habían arrancado toda la tela y la paja de los asientos para hacer nidos pero los habían abandonado años atrás. Varios de los vidrios estaban rotos ...read more
Philip Yancey interviewed a young alcoholic who had formerly been an active church member, but had allowed Alcoholics Anonymous to replace the church. When questioned why, the young man responded, "Mainly I'm trying to survive, and AA helps me in that struggle far better than any church." ...read more
Scripture: Romans 12:5
Tags: Accountability, Authenticity, Dependency, Self-Righteousness
Picture your ancestors as plantation farmers in the South. They have many acres of farmland and need to manage those crops. To help them accomplish this task, they go to the docks and buy a family of slaves to do the work around the farm, thus becoming the first slave owners in your family. ...read more
Scripture: Romans 5:12-14
Tags: Original Sin, Ask Forgiveness, Adam's Sin, Guilty As Charged
Denomination: Baptist
Watchman Nee, a Chinese evangelist, tells of a Christian he once knew in China. He was a rice farmer, and his fields lay high on a mountain. Every day he pumped water into the paddies of new rice. And every morning he returned to find that an unbelieving neighbor who lived down the hill had ...read more
Scripture: Romans 12:21
Tags: Evil, Overcome, Good, Unbeliever
“Life was no cakewalk for Jesus, and he didn’t promise it would be any easier for his followers. We shouldn’t be surprised by resistance and persecution. Yet most of us play it safe. We pursue comfort. We spend ourselves to get more stuff. And we prefer to be entertained. We are all tempted by the ...read more
Scripture: Romans 8:34-38
Tags: Comfort, Risk, Life In Christ, John Piper
“To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith ...read more
Tags: John Piper, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Risk, Big Decisions
My pet finch Coffee runs into a serious problem once in a while. Her claws grow so long she loses the ability to control them. They get stuck in the nest and she can’t get them out. Once we found her nearly dead, hanging for hours upside down with one claw ensnared in her wicker home. Carol rescued ...read more
Scripture: Romans 8:28
Tags: Surrender, Trust In God, Rest In God, Pruning, God's Care (view more) (view less)
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” - Mary Anne Radmacher Sometimes life deals us a situation so adverse, a loss so great, we feel unable to meet the challenge of facing day after day in our pain and loss. ...read more
Scripture: Romans 5:3-5
Tags: Adversity, Courage, Perserverance, Trials
Denomination: Charismatic
I guess many here including me have in the past and if honest still do sometimes ask this question “Why God?” or “How can there be a God with all this suffering” Sometimes life hands us some tricky situations. Former President Ronald Reagan likes to tell a story which he says is true about a ...read more
Scripture: Romans 8:18-31
Tags: Hope, Suffering
When our daughter was in Junior High School, she made friends with a group of girls from Olney, Texas, a community about forty minutes to the south of us. And they invited her to a function their school was having on a certain Friday night. So, I drove her over, and, when the time came, I went ...read more
Scripture: Romans 1:18-23
Tags: Creation, Doctrine Of God
Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed
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