Contributed by Steven Cannon on Jul 27, 2007
Jas 2:3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,”
Jas 2:4 have you not
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Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 4, 2010
I have had cars in which the gas hand was not accurate. You can’t ALWAYS tell the temperature of the engine or the gas in the tank or the oil pressure in the engine by the instruments. But most of the time you can. You can’t always
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Contributed by Bledar Valca on Dec 29, 2008
ONE LIFE
One single life has value and is important to God. Think of how God saved the world (or His people) through one person:
Noah found favor in the eyes of God when the whole world thought evil all the time.
God raised Joseph from the prison to save the world from famine.
God used Moses to
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GOD'S STANDARD FOR SIN
At a former church, a youth leader came up to me one day and said, "I'm trying to figure out the way God judges sin. The best I can figure it, I assume he grades on the curve like they do at school. You know, 70% good is a passing grade."
I had bad news for him. God has a
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 5, 2001
Chuck Swindoll reports that a seminary student in Chicago faced a forgiveness test. Although he preferred to work in some kind of ministry, the only job he could find was driving a bus on Chicago’s south side. One day a gang of tough teens got on board and refused to pay the fare. After a few days
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Contributed by Noel Atkinson on May 30, 2010
Jesus and Satan have a discussion as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest, with God as the judge.
They sit themselves at their computers and begin. They type furiously, lines of code streaming up the screen, for several
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Will the last Democrat with an idea please stand up? It doesn't even have to be a good one. Just pick an idea: a chicken in every pot, an intern under every desk, whatever. But please, Democrats, do something soon to indicate some
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Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Jun 4, 2007
Let’s say you were convicted of a serious crime and you were facing anywhere from 10 years to life. It was up to the judge to determine your punishment. If he handed down a 10 year sentence, would you be grateful?
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We "must distinguish between the error, which must always be rejected, and the person in error, who never loses his dignity as a person even though he flounders amid false or inadequate religious ideas. God alone is the judge and the searcher of
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PROTECTORS
In 1956 during the Mau Mau uprisings in East Africa, a band of roving Mau Maus came the village of Lauri, surrounded it, and killed all 300 inhabitants - including all the women and children. Armed with spears, bows and arrows, clubs and torches they next went three miles away to the
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FALLEN HUMAN NATURE
The fate of the women from Judges 19 touches the most troubling question of our modern time. Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel describe the most traumatic memory of his life, a scene from the year 1945, when he and his family were sent to the concentration camp by the German
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 10, 2006
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Honesty Poll Revealing: Gallup has discovered that Clergy rank only 6th among most honest professionals. The question: “Which professions are the most honest?”
Nurses 73%
Pharmacists 69%
Veterinarians 63%
Medical Dr.’s 58%
K-12
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Contributed by David Tack on Mar 16, 2012
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"In the training of art students, the master does not merely tell them what is wrong in a design; he puts the right design beside the wrong and lets them judge for themselves, and that is exactly what Jesus Christ did in the Sermon on the Mount.”
(Chambers, Oswald. The
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Chuck Swindoll once told the story of a seminary student in Chicago who faced a forgiveness test.
Although he preferred to work in some kind of ministry, the only job he could find was driving a bus on Chicago's south side.
One day a gang of tough teens got on board and refused to pay the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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