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  • Charles Swindoll Lists What He Calls The "Four ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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    Charles Swindoll lists what he calls the "four spiritual flaws": Flaw #1: Because you are a Christian, all your problems are solved. (Please do tell non-Christian this.) Flaw # 2: All the problems you will ever have are addressed in the Bible. (When your computer crashes, please don’t go to the ...read more

  • Preferences – Being A Disciple Of Christ Also ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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    Preferences – Being a disciple of Christ also means that you deny, you forgo, you give up many of your preferences for Christ. Before anything that is truly of God can be born, your own preferences have to die. Your desire to serve or lead in this type of church or that, has to be laid on the altar ...read more

  • An Ellison Research Study Finds 90% Of Americans ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 15, 2008
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    An Ellison Research study finds 90% of Americans feel the law should support religious groups renting public property, such as a public school gym or a library room, for meetings if non-religious groups are allowed to do so. 89% say it should be legal for a public school teacher to permit a “moment ...read more

  • As The [prayer Shawl] Was Placed Over The Head, ...

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 20, 2008
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    “As the [prayer shawl] was placed over the head, it formed its own tent. WINGS of the garment were formed when the arms were held out. For this reason, the corners of the prayer shawl are often called "wings." During the first century there were several traditions associated with the tzitzit ...read more

  • What Must I ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2009
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    WHAT MUST I DO? Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book on golf has sold more than a million copies. It is one of the biggest things in the history of sports books. In the 1920s, Penick bought a red spiral notebook and began jotting down observations about golf. He never showed the book to anyone except ...read more

  • One Would Think That Selling One's Soul, As ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Jun 3, 2009
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    One would think that selling one’s soul, as Faust offered his to the devil in Goethe’s Dr. Faustus, is only a figment of literary fiction. Medieval as it seems, however, several cases of soul-selling have occurred. Wired magazine reported that a 29-year-old university instructor succeeded in ...read more

  • Three Types Of Arrows Used By The Roman ...

    Contributed by Rev Dr Randall M Deal Sr on Jun 7, 2009
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    Three types of arrows used by the Roman military: 1. plain arrows – like arrows you’d shoot from a bow today. 2. Arrows that were dipped into tar, set on fire, and then shot through the air… with brush all around…soldiers intentionally try to catch the arrows into their shields…so they’d stick and ...read more

  • The Practice Of ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 6, 2009
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    The Practice of Restitution. Do those lofty ideals ever get put into practice? Yes, by specific individuals. Years ago we had in this church a man who had been saved after beginning to attend here. He was serious about Christ and had a strong desire to witness for Christ. The apostle Peter gave a ...read more

  • The Noahide Commands

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 31, 2009
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    THE NOAHIDE COMMANDS A Pagan could become > An Alien Believer > A God-fearer > A Jew (proselyte) A pagan would be an idolater or worship many gods, or one not serving the true God. An alien believer would be a gentile who wanted to be saved, repented from his sins and turned to the God of ...read more

  • Effects Of Divorce

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 22, 2009
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    EFFECTS OF DIVORCE Focus on the Family states: With more than 30 years of research, we now know divorce seldom leads to a better life. Consider that: 1. Life expectancies for divorced men and women are significantly lower than for married people (who have the longest life expectancies).3 2. A ...read more

  • Community Stores Refuse Kind Acts Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 9, 2009
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    Community Stores Refuse Kind Acts of Service The story is told of a minister who was organizing opportunities for people in his church to do small acts of kindness as a demonstration of Christ’s love in the community. 1. He phoned several neighborhood grocery stores and Laundromats and asked for ...read more

  • Elizabeth Elliot On His Sufficient Grace For ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 22, 2009
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    Elizabeth Elliot on His Sufficient Grace for Discipleship It’s the anticipation of that “glory of victory” that helps us to persevere in the hard times. It’s the assurance of that coming crown that helps us bear our cross today. Just one year after her husband was slain in Ecuador, along with ...read more

  • Synergistic Effect Of Draft Horses Pulling In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 1, 2009
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    Synergistic Effect of Draft Horses Pulling in Pairs Compared to Corporate Prayer My friend, if you are negligent about prayer in this way you are letting your church down. I read this week about a horse-pull in Canada where they hitched this one draft horse and he pulled 9,000 pounds. They hitched ...read more

  • A Father Insures The Safety Of His Son In A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    A Father Insures the Safety of His Son in a Blizzard A little boy was eagerly looking forward to the birthday party of a friend who lived only a few blocks away. When the day finally arrived, a blizzard made the sidewalks and roads nearly impassable. The lad’s father, sensing the danger, hesitated ...read more

  • A Pow's Will To Live--French Surgeon Removes His ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010
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    A POW’s Will to Live--French Surgeon Removes His Own Appendix When the French surrendered to General Giap and the Vietnamese at Dien Phen Phu, the long line of survivors were led on foot toward Hanoi. A French army surgeon among the prisoners realized that his appendix was in trouble. What would he ...read more

  • Anthropology And Jesus' Appearance

    Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
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    ANTHROPOLOGY AND JESUS' APPEARANCE This past week I attended a series of lectures at Anderson University in which the presenter, Dr Rodney Sadler, Jr from Union Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina showed this picture. (Slide 2) Source: ...read more

  • N. T. Wright Is The Bishop Of Durham And A New ...

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Mar 6, 2010
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    N. T. Wright is the bishop of Durham and a New Testament scholar without equal in my judgment. Bishop Wright describes the kingdom as God’s “ultimate future and urgent present.” What does he mean? He means what so many others mean when they say the kingdom is both now and not yet. There is a ...read more

  • A Bug's Life: Small Steps Of Faith

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 15, 2010
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    A BUG'S LIFE: SMALL STEPS OF FAITH A Bug’s Life, Start time 6:30 Overview from Belknapp: Dot complains to Flik about her underdeveloped wings. She wants to fly now! Flik encourages her, showing her that a seed that starts out small eventually grows into a towering tree-it only takes time and ...read more

  • As A Young Boy, Theologian Alister Mcgrath ...

    Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Apr 17, 2010
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    As a young boy, theologian Alister McGrath enjoyed experimenting with chemicals in his school's laboratory. He liked to drop a tarnished coin into a beaker of diluted nitric acid. He often used an old British penny bearing the image of Queen Victoria. Because of the accumulated grime, Her Majesty's ...read more

  • Emergency Locator On Raft Compared To Not Being ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2010
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    Emergency Locator on Raft Compared to Not Being Able to Hide Sin A big part of his prayer is confession. Nehemiah confessed his sin. He owned the problem. They were sins not simply of commission but of omission. Trying to hide our sins from God is impossible. He knows all about them. Numbers 32:23 ...read more