Contributed by Charles Salmon on Sep 12, 2006
ILUS.: At one point in my early ministry, I was in the hospital emergency room with a Church family when a young man was brought in after a train wreck. His family refused to allow transfusions because or religious belief. He died while a court order was being pursued.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Dean Courtier on Oct 12, 2009
REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS
Hugh Evan Hopkins said "The problem of evil arises largely from the belief that a good God would reward each man according to his deeds and that an almighty God would have no difficulty in carrying this out. The fact that rewards and punishments, in the way of happiness and
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Contributed by Andrew Drummond on Nov 11, 2007
Imagine for a moment you were in a playground and you saw someone trying to abduct a child, what would you do? I think we would act, without hesitation we would be stirred into action. You would not stand by and let something so terrible just happen. A conviction
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Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 21, 2009
The Nature of Unbelief
In Ernest Hemmingway’s Green Hills of Africa, he hunts for sable. He shoots a large chestnut-colored cow, and then sees an immense black bull, which he shoots but badly. He finds the cow, but he and his team of trackers and porters search all day for the bull. The language
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Mennonite
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 2, 2007
There was a professor who told his class that man is only a meaningless piece of protoplasm. He dismissed class early because of grief over his young daughter, whose life would be scarred because she had run off with an older man. A Christian student asked, “How can
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 22, 2004
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One day I received a telephone call from a friend. He was working for his doctorate in one of the most prestigious theological seminaries in America. He asked if I would go with him to call on the head of the seminary, who was also his professor. He explained to me that hisprofessor was a good
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Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 9, 2002
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CHANGED BY AGNOSTICISM
Dr. Harry Ironside was a great Christian leader in the first half of this century. On one occasion, he was involved with a Salvation Army meeting in San Francisco. Dr. Ironside shared his testimony with the gathering then returned to his seat on the platform. Soon after
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 15, 2002
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THE CROSS AND ANTICHRIST IN HISTORY
Massachusetts Bay Colony was the scene of "The Great Migration" wherein thousands of religious dissenters came over to the New World to make a new life for themselves in the company of "saints" and other Puritans. Right off quick they passed laws regulating
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Nov 15, 2002
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IN EVERY SITUATION
There are, in every situation, two factors: there is what happens, and there is how we take what happens.
How we take what happens goes back to what kind of person we are, and what kind of belief we have about life as a whole.
SOURCE: Purpose in Chaos,
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A 2003 study from the Barna Research Group shows that many of our country’s moral and spiritual challenges are directly related to the absence of a biblical worldview among Americans.
Barna’s study of 2,033 adults showed that only 4 percent have a biblical worldview as the basis of their
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Episcopal/Anglican
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Most Neo-Pagans have the following factors in common:
• Their religion was almost or completely wiped out in the past and has since then been reconstructed from ancient information sources
• They are either duo-theistic or poly-theistic in nature (recognizing a goddess and god or many gods.)
• Most
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Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 31, 2000
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Hilda Houlding co-ordinator of the Calgary Family Service Bureau, made this comment “An affair is often an attempt to find a little bit of paradise on the side, pursuing the belief that if one just finds the right sexual partner there will be instant happiness and everything will fall into place.
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Philip Gill on Jan 11, 2003
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I am Baptised!
Apparently Martin Luther, the great 16th figure of the reformation used to take great comfort from these words. When it seemed to him that the whole church had left the precepts of the Gospel, when he was under scrutiny from Church officials as to the truth of his beliefs,
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Barna notes the main reason why people do not currently attend church in a survey he did in 2000 and in 1990:
Main reason for not attending church 2000 1990
1. No time; schedule conflicts; working 26% 24%
2. Not interested; nothing to offer 16% 16%
3.
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