Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Aug 14, 2009
BREAD TREE
Some might ask, 'If God intended man to live on bread, why didn’t he create a bread tree?' And the answer, in effect, is that God could have created a tree that produced crusty loaves of bread, but he prefers to offer us a grain and invite us to buy a field and plant the seed. He
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Juan Quintero on Feb 12, 2010
Honrar es:
1. Respetar a alguien.
2. Enaltecer o premiar su mérito.
3. Dar honor o celebridad.
4. Como fórmula de cortesía para enaltecer la asistencia, adhesión, etc., de otra u otras personas.
5. Dicho de una persona: Tener a honra ser o hacer algo.
Honor is:
1. Respecting everyone.
2.
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Contributed by Ryan Peters on Mar 10, 2009
Suicide has steadily grown since 1999. The LA Times reports that
Suicides for whites ages 40 to 64 rose 17% from 1999 to 2005, researchers said. For middle-age white men, the rate rose 16% to 26.9 per 100,000 in 2005, from 23.1 per 100,000 in 1999. For white women in that age group, the rate rose
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
The average American adult visits a quick service restaurant 5.2 times in a given
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Contributed by Mike Mcguire on Feb 8, 2007
Pedro amonestaba a los pastores de la iglesia, “Apacentad la grey de Dios que está entre vosotros, cuidando de ella,… Y cuando aparezca el Príncipe de los pastores, vosotros
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Baptist
IVP Bible Background Commentary states this about our passage in John 10:1-10:
"The original text of the Bible had no chapter breaks; this passage continues Jesus’ words to the *Pharisees in 9:41. It is based on *Old Testament images of God as the shepherd of Israel (Gen 48:15; 49:24; Ps 23:1;
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Mar 23, 2010
EVANGELISTIC CASTING
We're not told that every fish in the sea swam to the net. We're not told that a certain number of fish were caught in the net. We're told that Jesus first indicated His awareness that they had caught nothing, then gave a command that they cast their net on the right side of
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Contributed by Brian Mavis on Aug 27, 2001
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Last year Professor [Robert] George [of Princeton] debated abortion at a
convention of the American Political Science
Association. His opponent was well-known
deconstructionist Stanley Fish. In published
articles, Fish had dismissed arguments against
abortion as based on "religious conviction"
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Contributed by Jun Tadena on Aug 25, 2006
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A Fisherman
During the first and second centuries, the symbol of Christianity was the fish. A present-day Christian decided that a fishhook would be the proper emblem for a soul-winner to use for winning people to Christ, so he had a little golden fishhook made to be worn on the lapel of his coat.
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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Charles Francis Adams, 19th century political figure and diplomat, kept a diary. One day he entered: "Went fishing with my son today--a day wasted." His son, Brook Adams, also kept a diary, which is still in existence. On that same day, Brook Adams made this entry: "Went fishing with my father--the
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