Contributed by John Gerald on Sep 2, 2004
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An angel walked the beat tonight on Highway 109.
A drunken man in an Oldsmobile,
They said had run the light
that caused the six-car pile up,
On 109 that night.
When broken bodies lay about,
and blood was verywhere,
the sirens screamed out eulogies,
for death was in the air.
A mother,
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Methodist
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While grace and mercy are basically one and the same characteristic of God, we can “split hairs” and see a distinction. Vaughan Durston, Founder of “U. B. David and I’ll B. Jonathan Inc.,” shares two stories that make this clear. Remember Rolfe Barnard’s definition: “Grace is God’s favour that
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Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Sep 29, 2009
In the early 1930s a man by the name of Peter Strudwick was born in what was quickly becoming known as Deutsches Reich ("German Reich.") During her pregnancy Peter’s mother contracted Rubella. As a result, Peter was born with legs that ended in stumps just past the ankles, a left arm that only had
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Church Of God
Contributed by Lynn Floyd on May 4, 2001
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Aurelius Augustine spent most of his life battling the bondage to sexual appetite and philosophical pride. When he was 31 the power of God through His word, broke the bondage to sexual lust and living with a concubine. Augustine said
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Baptist
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A.W. Tozer: What is worship? Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most ancient Mystery, that Majesty
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 13, 2003
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In some churches in China, they welcome new believers by saying, “Jesus now has a new pair of eyes to see with, new ears to listen with, new hands to help with, and a new heart to love others with.”
Rick
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Contributed by Darryl Bell on Apr 17, 2006
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Martin Luther King, Jr., said, “Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who
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In William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice (Act 1, Scene 3), one of the characters (Antonio) says:
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 27, 2008
John Knox, the Scottish reformer, wrote:
Quote: “By what means Satan first drew mankind from the obedience of God, the Scripture doth witness: To wit, by pouring into their hearts that poison, that God did not love them”.
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 9, 2009
In its broadest connotation “the kingdom of God” indicates God’s kingship, rule, or sovereignty recognized in the hearts and operative in the lives of His people, and effecting their complete salvation, their constitution as a church, and ultimately a redeemed universe (William
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Contributed by Bobby Gilstrap on May 25, 2010
Some unknown poet put it this way:
They came to the gates of Canaan,
But they never entered in;
They came to the very threshold,
But they perished in their sin.
And so we are ever coming
To the place where two ways part,
One leads to the land of
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
Quote: Church Pastor and author A. W. Tozer said:
"Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving."
Quote: The late Reformed scholar Louis Berkhof is more to the point when he says:
"Grace is the unmerited
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Brethren
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