Contributed by Sidney Sumida on Oct 6, 2009
                
                
                
                    The apostle Paul specifically tells us in I Thessalonians 3:3, that our afflictions are God appointed. That means God specially designs our trials to the right specifications with the intent of reaching our hearts! 
I remember when I was growing up and entering the adolescence years of my life
                    
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                    Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Feb 21, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    What do you do with an Apostle Paul?  Now there was one committed guy.  “Paul, if you don’t quit preaching, we are gonna stone you!”  “Well, that’s been done before!”  Look, Paul, if you don’t quit preaching we are gonna throw you in jail!”  “Hey, guys, could you send me back to Rome.  They let me
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jan 1, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    If the apostle Paul were asked what he would do with all of the present problems of fear, unemployment, and hardship in America today he would no doubt say, "You are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. Do not be overcome (by over-reacting, over-emphasizing, over-spiritualizing,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Paul
Paul, the apostle, who before was called Saul, after his great travail and unspeakable labors in promoting the Gospel of Christ, suffered also in this first persecution under Nero. Abdias, declareth that under his execution Nero sent two of his esquires, Ferega and Parthemius, to bring him
                    
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                    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Aug 3, 2011
                
                
                
                    PEALE AND PAUL
Many of you are familiar with Norman Vincent Peale’s book, The Power of Positive Living. It’s a good book. It won’t get you to heaven, but it will really help you approach life with the right kind of outlook. 
Dr. Vance Havner was asked one time to compare the writings of Norman
                    
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                    John - The Apostle of Love
John is known as The Apostle of Love because more than any other writer in the New Testament he speaks of love, he exemplifies love, he loves and is loved. As a matter of fact, even though he writes only five books in the New Testament (as opposed to Paul’s 13) he used
                    
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                    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on May 26, 2009
                
                
                
                    THE APOSTLE JOHN
Here are some of the things we know about John, John was one of the apostles. In fact he was the youngest apostle.  His brother was the apostle James who is beheaded in Acts 12. He is the only apostle to not be martyred for his faith. And he walked in the inner circle of Jesus.
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jun 2, 2009
                
                
                
                    The apostle’s teaching is that life for the non-Christian is a living death. He is spiritually dead […] There is no stronger term than ‘death’. How categorical he is! You cannot say anything beyond saying that a man is dead. It is not ‘almost dead’, he is actually dead; it is not desperately ‘ill’,
                    
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Text: 1 Tim 6:11 But thou, O man of God (Timothy), flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Thoughts: we know at least a few things about Timothy, as recorded in the New Testament. He was from Lystra, a city in Asia Minor (Acts 16:1, this city
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 8, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [From Apostles and Prophets: The Foundation of the Church, by C. Peter Wagner, 2000, Regal Books, Ventura California, pp. 25]
In my book Churchquake! I say:
Of all the radical changes in the New Apostolic Reformation, I regard one of them as the most radical of all.
It is so important that I have
                    
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                    The apostles were a great example of the difficulties of loving one another, and Jesus knew it. 
There’s a scene in the epic Franco Zefferelli movie, Jesus of Nazareth, in which Jesus arrives at the house of Matthew, the tax collector, for dinner as he told Matthew he would. Peter and the other
                    
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                    There is a story about the Apostle John at the end of his life. He was the pastor at the church in Ephesus, and at this point he was so old that he could no longer walk. Sunday after Sunday they other elders would carry him in on a mat and set him in the middle of the assembly. From this mat he
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Aug 27, 2007
                
                
                
                    In Robert Duvall’s movie, The Apostle, there is a scene of a revival tent meeting where the evangelist has this great big bunch of keys and begins screaming that he has the “keys to the kingdom.” He jingles them in the faces of people to encourage people to respond to his message and to Jesus and
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Mazzulla on Jul 18, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PAUL AND FREEDOM
Paul uses the word FREEDOM 28 times in the Pauline Epistles 10 times in this Epistle to the Galatians. Paul uses the word grace 100 times in his writings. Among all the other writers of the New
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Steffens on Dec 11, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The physical prosperity the apostle John wished for Gaius was held in relationship with Gaius’ preexistent spiritual prosperity. John writes; “even as thy soul prospereth.” To wish physical prosperity on someone without their first attaining spiritual maturity is dangerous. Why? Because... 
 
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 8, 2008
                
                
                
                    John Brown commented that, beginning with the Damascus Road encounter, Christ took Paul under His own immediate tutoring. It was essential for the Lord to establish Paul’s independence as an apostle.
                    
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