Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd
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Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Nov 16, 2009
FAITH: A LIVING, DARING CONFIDENCE
"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times. This knowledge of and confidence in God’s grace makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures.
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2011
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VACANT HOMES, VACANT LIVES
TIFTON, GA — The most interesting thing about Tifton is an abandoned Victorian house filled with thousands of bats. Tift County declared the once-elegant house in the town’s historic district off limits after a bat specialist said that maybe 20,000 bats had moved in,
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Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Jun 14, 2011
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OUR LIVES ARE LIKE A...
Listen to what the Bible compares our lives to, and as you do, notice that the central theme of each comparison is the idea of the BREVITY of our lives upon this earth:
* First, our lives are compared to A VAPOR (James 4:1) - Think about the vapor from a teapot. It is
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Baptist
Contributed by Randall Bergsma on Dec 19, 2006
The message of Jubilee was that when you live with God your failures couldn’t ruin you for good. A fresh start was always coming. God is a god who flips things around to remake them.
Isaiah even points at it with a word play. Verse 3: a crown (phe-er) instead of ashes (epher, ). Ashes were the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 13, 2007
We live in a world that is looking for peace. Most of us are more familiar with tension, stress and anxiety than peace. Lack of peace is the result of our complex, accelerated and stressed-out world. If you can complete these sentences with the appropriate word, you need to learn what resources
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
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We live in a culture that breeds dissatisfaction. Henri Nouwen wrote a wonderful book entitled The
Return of the Prodigal Son. It is a top 10. He made this statement.
Many consumeristic economies stay afloat my manipulating the low self esteem of their consumers. By creating spiritual
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Baptist
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Aug 14, 2001
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Jesus calls us to be people who
Live in present-tense.
An average person¡¦s anxiety is focused on :
40% -- things that will never happen
30% -- things about the past that can’t be changed
12% -- things about criticism by others, mostly untrue
10% -- about health, which gets worse with stress
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ted Sutherland on Oct 1, 2001
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Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: How many can you afford?
Q: How many evolutionists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Just one but it will take a million years.
Q: How many Psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one, but the bulb has got to
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Baptist
Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Jan 13, 2003
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God does not change – even in the bad times. I think that is why Matt Redman writes that he is going to choose to say “Blessed be your name”
Blessed be Your name,
When the sun’s shining down on me
When the world’s "all as it should be"
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be Your name,
On the road
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