Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2009
In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church’s integrity problem is in the misconception "that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior." He goes on to say, "It is revival without reformation, without repentance."
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Aug 29, 2012
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During World War II, a young paratrooper, David Webster of E Company, 101st Airborne wrote his mother,
"Stop worrying about me. I joined the parachutists to fight. I intend to fight. If necessary, I shall die fighting, but don’t worry about this because no war can be won without
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
H. Richard Niebuhr summarized the core of liberal theology in a single sentence: “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ with a cross.”
Michael G. Moriarty, The
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Dec 14, 2004
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“Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church…The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown away at cut prices. Grace is represented as the Church’s inexhaustible treasury, from which she showers blessings with generous hands,
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Church Of God
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The Greek word for ’sincere’ means to test by sunlight. When you wash windows you can think you have cleaned the window well but when the sun shines on them you can see alot of streeks and smears. When the light of the Holy
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Jim Kane on Jun 5, 2001
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I would suggest this day that the empty tomb represents an emptied, not empty heart and life. The stone represents the sin that blocks the heart and life from being liberated and freed from the darkness that it contains. God, through Christ, has rolled
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Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
Alexander the Great built the world’s first lighthouse. It was on the island of Pharos, at the entrance to the harbor of the city that bore Alexander’s name, Alexandria, Egypt. Built in 280 B.C., it stood six hundred feet high. We consider the world’s
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
That great truth inspired Count Zinzendorf to write the following lines in the glorious hymn “Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness,” translated by John Wesley:
Bold I shall stand in that great day,
For who ought to my charge shall
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2008
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Karl Menninger, a famed psychiatrist, once said that if he could convince the patients in psychiatric hospitals that their sins were forgiven, 75 percent of them could walk out the next day!
Source: Today in the Word, March
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Contributed by David Tack on May 25, 2009
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Our adoption means that there is continued forgiveness. Were God only our Judge, our past sins would all be forgiven, but we would have no assurance of forgiveness of future wrongs... Our adoption and God’s forgiveness are eternal.
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