Contributed by Donald Stevens on Sep 30, 2004
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- Wesley taught about Prevenient Grace, Justifying Grace, and Sanctifying Grace.
- And even if we know about those forms of grace that Wesley emphasized,
- I think that we still have a hard time understanding what grace really is.
- I once heard it explained this way.
- Suppose that someone
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 4, 2005
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A Godly leader is not to be quick tempered or overbearing. Back in the days when I was a police officer I was an elder at our church. One Sunday I was asked if I would bring an offering meditation. At the last minute I discovered I would be working that day so our Pastor asked if I could get a 10
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Christian Church
Contributed by Dan Waite on Dec 1, 2005
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In the TV series Firefly, in the episode “The Great Train Robbery,” the captain has agreed to a job to steal something. After finding out that it is medicine, which is badly needed, he decides to break his contract and return the stolen medicine. The sherif catches him returning the medicine and
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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When their son left for his freshman year at Duke University, his parents gave him a Bible, assuring him it would be a great help. Later, as he began sending them letters asking for money, they would write back telling him to read his Bible, citing chapter and verse. He would reply that he was
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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When their son left for his freshman year at Duke University, his parents gave him a Bible, assuring him it would be a great help. Later, as he began sending them letters asking for money, they would write back telling him to read his Bible, citing chapter and verse. He would reply that he was
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One man related that after the death of his oldest child, he was standing in an airport waiting for his flight. He noticed a little blonde girl, ten years old or so, and she was looking at some dolls in one of the mall areas. She had an elderly man with her and she said, “Granddaddy, loan me the
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
In ancient China, the people desired security from the barbarians to the north. The result? The Great Wall of China. It’s 30 feet high, 18 feet thick, and more than 2400 km (1500 miles) long! The goal was to build an absolutely impenetrable defense—too high to climb over, too thick to break down,
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Contributed by Richard Sharp on May 14, 2007
ILL- Charles Hadden Spurgeon- worry /fear
Charles Hadden Spurgeon, a great 19th century preacher, once said that he worried for weeks before a speaking engagement, even to the extent of hoping he would break a leg and miss the event . When he finally entered the pulpit to speak , he was
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 12, 2012
ANGER: STRENGTH IN YOUR CLAWS
The biggest lobster ever caught in Maine, a 27-pounder (12.25 kg) with claws tough enough to snap a man's arm, was released back into the ocean on Thursday after being trapped in a shrimp net last week, marine officials said.
The 40-inch (one-meter) male crustacean,
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 11, 2025
[077]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – EYES AND EARS - BLIND AND DEAF
Stubbornness is so bound up in most people that it will not release them, particularly when the things of God are presented. Stubbornness refuses to see reason and to see the light, and to hear and obey.
The prophets were frustrated
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
Northern Mississippi River freezes. A man decided to walk across the ice instead of going down to the bridge. He didn’t see anyone else out there. It looked so crusty and thick, He said, “I believe I can walk across. I won’t have to take the journey down to the bridge” and he began to walk
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Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Ball on Jul 7, 2009
Let’s say that I am at home, sitting in my favorite chair and Diana comes in and puts her hands out. In her hands, is a beautiful watch that she says she has purchased for me.
Now, what would happen if I yelled at her in anger and said for her to get it away from me and to never do such a thing
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Contributed by Bill Lobbs on Nov 4, 2000
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Let me give you an example to what I’m saying by sharing with you a story that I recently read in one of the history books in my library. I read how on July 3l, 1838 on the Island of Jamaica, a man named William Knibbs, gathered 10,000 slaves for a great praise gathering. They were celebrating
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I will never forget the day I watched about 40 khaki-clad men get off an old rattletrap brown bus in Houston, Texas. Some had scars on their faces. I especially remember one man whose arm had been amputated. Some of them looked tough. I remember thinking I would not want to meet some of those guys
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 30, 2007
A friend I grew up with, has always been a person who is very – upfront. She has never let an obstacle get in the way of where she was going. Growing up, I was always getting embarrassed by how brash she was. For example, there was a large movie theater in the area that was super popular. It was
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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