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Recently, a 20-year-old University of Washington student named Adam Burtle posted an unusual item on the Internet auction site eBay. The bidding began at 5 cents on this particular article and eventually reached $400 by the end of the auction. It was listed under the heading of “20 yr-old Seattle
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Humorus story: God was once approached by a scientist who said, "Listen God, we’ve decided we don’t need you anymore. These days we can clone people, transplant organs and do all sorts of things that used to be considered miraculous.
"God replied, "Don’t need me huh? How about we put your theory
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Big church and famous preacher - Texas, looking good on TV... Sermon title: “Why We Don’t Have to Be Afraid of Death”… And for about 20 minutes he was repeating this… we don’t have to be afraid, we don’t have… bla-bla… At the very end, as usual for those tele-preachers, he was keeping his best shot
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Jeffrey Powell on May 25, 2009
FOUNDING FATHERS' FAITH
John Adams once remarked, "It is the duty of the clergy to accommodate their discourses to the times, to preach against such sins as are most prevalent, and recommend such virtues as are most wanted. For example, if exorbitant ambition and venality are predominant, ought
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos; the church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for
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Contributed by Davidson Goh on Aug 7, 2007
If this statement is true – we are people with great potential to do evil.
Take a moment to examine ourselves – did we ever do this in our lives:
- Did you ever want to cheat?
- Did you tell a lie to cover up something you did which was not right?
- Did you ever
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
IT IS A WELL KNOWN FACT, THAT HOLLYWOOD IS FIXATED ON A WORLD ENDING SCENARIO, EVIDENCED IN THE 1998 MOVIE: ARMAGEDDON, WHICH CHARACTERIZES GOOD AND EVIL AS AN ASTEROID TWICE THE SIZE OF TEXAS, AND BRUCE WILLIS, THE GOOD GUY, WHO SAVES THE WORLD FROM DESTRUCTION.
H. ARMAGEDDON GROSSED $201,573,391
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Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
ILLUSTRATION
The example of EVIL in the 20th century.
1. 6,000,000 Jews murdered in gas chambers.
2. 7,000,000 gypsies/others
3. Russia slaughtered 20,000,000 Ukrainians
4. 1.5 million Armenians killed
5. tens of thousands
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Baptist
THE AUTHORITY OF THE BODY
When Preacher John Wesley was a student at Oxford Unversity, he was shocked by the amount of drinking done by the students. (Wonder what he would think about college students today?)
After writing to his mother, Susanna Wesley, for her counsel, he received the following
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 3, 2010
Do you believe in the God of surprises?
Now, let’s be clear, just in case anyone’s not sure. Although The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is one of my favourite books, and one of my favourite films, I know that it’s only make-believe; but just like the parables that Jesus told – the stories he
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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WHAT LOVE DOES
1. Love is Patient – v4
It takes a long time before fuming & breaking into flames. Love doesn’t retaliate. Love’s patience is the ability to be inconvenienced by a person over & over again without getting angry.
-Romans 12:17 Refuses to pay back evil for evil, but if slapped on the
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Contributed by Dan Waite on Nov 25, 2005
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“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” C. S. Lewis noted that the effect of the rule of the White Witch, which represents evil, is to cause it to be “always winter but never Christmas.”
Winter eventually wears on even those who love it. It becomes burdensome and is occasionally
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Brian Menear on Feb 23, 2007
Some Christians don’t believe in Hell or The Devil. We should have 3 problems with that.
1 Calling God a liar-It is written in his Word, therefore it is true.
2 Calling Jesus a liar-He talked about it so it’s true.
3 Setting themselves up for a big shock
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