Contributed by Ian Biss on Sep 30, 2001
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EVANGELISTIC ZEAL
Mordecai Ham emerged as an evangelist from Kentucky at the turn of the century. He had a background in business and the study of law. From the very beginning his approach was zealous and blunt. Rather than sit and talk with Christians at revival sites, Ham insisted on being taken
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Grace Brethren
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
The Zeal of Communists.
In the late 1940s Whittaker Chambers was called to witness before a New York Grand Jury against Alger Hiss, one of our high government officials. Chambers, a one-time Communist, accused Hiss of trying to transmit confidential government documents to the Soviet Union through
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 14, 2011
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J. C. RYLE ON ZEAL
Recently I found a book by Bishop J.C. Ryle, the first bishop of Liverpool, England on the subject of zeal. He wrote:
"Zeal is a burning desire to please God, to do His will, and to advance His glory in the world in every possible way. A zealous man is preeminently a man of
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 22, 2008
What we see urged in the NT is zeal, which is not quite the same as the fad word "passion" (which implies the necessity of emotional exuberance and is emotionally driven) or "urgency" (which implies a desperate God and is usually guilt driven). Zeal is a spiritually driven energy grounded in a
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal,
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 22, 2010
Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George said, "Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jun 10, 2009
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John Newton, the writer of Amazing Grace, said –
"What will it profit a man if he gains his cause, and silences his adversary, if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 1, 2009
Bertoldo de Giovanni is a name even the most enthusiastic lover of art is unlikely to recognize. He was the pupil of Donatello, the greatest sculptor of his time, and he was the teacher of Michelangelo, the greatest sculptor of all time.
Michelangelo was only 14 years old when he came to
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Pentecostal
I was pumping and finally my friend Sorin said, “You know Ovidiu, I don’t think there is any water left down there… Oh yes, still there but deep down… And the good thing about the water that is deep down at 50 feet underground, is this: the deeper the water - the purer, the sweeter, the cooler
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Joo-Ching Chng on Jan 4, 2008
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Let me begin by sharing with you a letter that was written by a young communist to his girl friend. He was breaking off his relationship with her
because of his devotion to the communist cause. She gave the letter to her pastor, who gave the letter to Billy Graham. Billy Graham published the
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
The story is told of a little boy who was scared to go to church one Sunday. He cried and cried and his mother couldn’t find out what was wrong with him. He loved to go to Sunday school and church. She kept questioning him and finally he blurted out, “I’m afraid of the zeal.”
“What zeal?” she
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"I would have every minister of the Gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, the generous energy of a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 17, 2000
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Richard Baxter, the Puritan preacher of the 17th century conveys the urgency, the zeal of Christian witness when he said, "I preached as never sure
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Baptist