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Teammates of the late Willie Stargell called him "Pops" because of his leadership both on and off the baseball field. In 1979, when Stargell led the Pittsburgh Pirates to their second World Series title, the team was nicknamed "The Family" because of their close relationship and
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"Silent Night" is one of the most beloved Christmas carols, known for its serene and tranquil melody. The story behind the song begins in the small Austrian village of Oberndorf bei Salzburg in 1818. The lyrics were written by Joseph Mohr, a young priest, and the music was composed by
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A solar eclipse took place in 1948, the year Israel declared itself a nation, and again in 1967, when Israel emerged victorious from the Six-Day War and unified Jerusalem.
With a little more research, we discover another solar eclipse in 1492, the year the Jews were expelled from Spain and
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CHARACTERISTICS OF PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS (II Timothy 3:1-4)
Self-Centeredness: People will love only themselves and their money.
Pride and Disobedience: They will be boastful, proud, scoff at God, and disobedient to their parents.
Lack of Gratitude: Ungratefulness will prevail.
Lack of Love
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If you seek your own glory you will lose that, and His. But, if you seek His, you will get yours directly from Him. We are all tempted, like the youth Narcissus in the Greek fable, to bend over the brook and fall in love with ourselves, and we get changed into flowers, and fade in an hour. But he
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"In trying to evangelize, we confront powerful cultural pressures towards religious relativism; the dominant idea today is that ‘any one religion is as good as any other’ and that people should keep their religious beliefs to themselves."
(Source: Archbishop Jose omez on
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Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jul 19, 2004
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Each day the young pastor stopped at a deli-market for fruit juice on the way to work. Each day, with kindness in his voice, he greeted the man behind the counter, a middle-eastern man with Islamic beliefs. On many occasions the young pastor shared his faith in Jesus Christ with the man behind the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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“In 1963…65 percent of Americans said they believed in the absolute truth of all words in the Bible. Within 15 years, by 1978, the proportion of the population holding this belief had declined to 38 percent. The current figure of 32 percent represents a new low in literal belief in the Bible” (PRRC
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Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 2, 2010
Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States during the Clinton administration, was interviewed on “60 Minutes” on June 26, 1999. She seems to hold this ancient opinion of Christians. Here is how she defined a cultist:
A cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church’s integrity problem is in the misconception "that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior." He goes on to say, "It is revival without
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church’s integrity problem is in the misconception “that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior.” He goes on to say, “It is revival without
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 30, 2007
In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church’s integrity problem is in the misconception “that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior.” He goes on to say, “It is revival without
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Apr 28, 2009
Works, good deeds, are the physical response and demonstration of an inner set of beliefs and system of values based upon those beliefs, that are both stimulated into being by those beliefs and are also the seen and experienced
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Contributed by Rick Palmer on Oct 21, 2018
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As a Police Officer we were required to use radar to influence drivers to slow down and obey the laws. One evening I parked at a T-intersection where Main Street intersected a major highway.This intersection was very well lite up because of the businesses located there, a restaurant with a gas
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The Bible contains several references to eclipses, both solar and lunar. Let’s explore some of these passages:
Isaiah 13:10:
“For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not shed its light.”
This
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