Contributed by Bill Butsko on Mar 13, 2009
“Satisfied Completely!”
The daughter of a New York rabbi tells this story. “My father taught me to read the Bible in Hebrew as a young child. We began at Genesis. When we came to Isaiah, he skipped the fifty-third chapter. I asked him why. He said it was not necessary for Jews to read that
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 30, 2002
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Did you read B.C. in yesterday’s cartoons? Two women are sitting on a small hill. One is reading the Bible and says, “Oh, my goodness. . . Says here. . . Jesus descended into hell!” The other is shocked and says, “You’re kidding!” Then the woman with the Bible says, “Oh, no. . . Not to
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Methodist
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The son of a wealthy man expected to receive a sports car for his graduation.
Instead his Dad called him into his study, told him that he loved him and handed him a wrapped-up present.
When he opened it, he found it to be a box containing a leather bound Bible, with his name inscribed on the
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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SOLE WITNESS
A fine lad entered the Army. He faced a real test the first night he went to be in the barracks. He had formed the commendable habit of placing his Bible on his bed at home and kneeling down to read a chapter while having his daily prayer time before retiring.
Surrounded by scores of
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CONSISTENT LIFE
I recently heard of four scholars who were arguing over Bible translations. One said he preferred the King James Version because of its beautiful, eloquent old English. Another said he preferred the American Standard Bible for its literalism, the way it moves the reader from
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Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 18, 2006
Geo. Washington “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God & the Bible.” ’Stonewall’ Jackson “The Bible is the rock upon which our republic rests.” John Adams “We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality & religion. … Our
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If God has promised something to you through His Word, it will come to pass. Dr. John Walvoord served as president at Dallas Seminary for 34 years and was known as an authority on the area of Bible prophecy. He calculated after an exhaustive study of the Scriptures that half of the prophecies of
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 25, 2007
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A World In Turmoil
The Personnel Journal reported this incredible statistic: since the beginning of recorded history, the entire world has been at peace less than eight percent of the time! In its study, the periodical discovered that of 3530 years of recorded history, only 286 years saw peace.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 12, 2004
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Illustration: Sir Christopher Wren, the most famous architect of his time, built St. Paul’s Cathedral. He began in 1676 and it took him 35 years to build it. He was 44 when he began and was 79 when he completed it in 1711. Sir Christopher Wren built St. Paul’s’ Cathedral, but actually he didn’t lay
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
A story I recently read reminds of one other thing we can do with God’s Word. A missionary in Africa gave a Bible to a local tribesman. The man hugged it. He expressed great appreciation for the precious gift.
A few days later, the missionary saw the same man again. To his dismay, the Bible
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 28, 2004
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Finding Rage/Anger
I wanted to find out what the Bible had to say about ’rage’ so I went to an on-line Bible search program and typed in ’rage’. Up came 153 selections. I thought, "wow, the Bible has a lot of rage in it." But then as I began to read I noticed I not only had ’rage’ but I also had
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 23, 2008
How Many Promises in the Bible?
Dr. Everek R. Storms of Ontario spent a vast amount of time studying the promises of Scripture. Writing in Contact Magazine, he said:
“The Holy Scriptures contain a grand total of 8,810 promises. How do I know? I counted them. Dr. Storms goes on to classify the
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