Contributed by Martin Kim on Oct 5, 2004
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Win Arn, a leading church consultant conducted a survey:
He surveyed members of nearly a thousand churches asking the question, “Why does the church exit?? The results? Of the church members surveyed, 89 percent said, “The church’s purpose is to take care of my family’s and my needs.? For many,
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Contributed by Greg Buchner on May 5, 2005
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Lewis B. Smedes in his book How Can It Be All Right When Eveything is Wrong?” put this admitting into these words…“Grace is rather an amazing power to look earthly reality full in the face, see its sad and tragic edges, feel its cruel cuts, join in the primeval chorus against its outrageous
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Methodist
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 31, 2005
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C.S. Lewis says of true friendship, “True friendship is rare on earth. It means identifying with someone in thought, heart, and spirit. The whole experience of life is designed to enable us to enter in to this closest relationship with Jesus Christ. We receive His blessings and know His Word, but
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 4, 2006
A Russian novelist has written a story in which he represents his hero as a man who witnessed the trial and crucifixion of Jesus. However, he had a toothache, and all that he could recall of that memorable week was his toothache. There are many who belong to this group. They cannot become
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 27, 2006
Martin Luther put it, ‘The sure mark by which the Christian congregation can be recognized is that the pure gospel is preached there. For just as the banner of an army is the sure sign by which one can know what kind of lord and army has taken to the field, so to the gospel is the sure sign by
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Baptist
Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Jan 15, 2007
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There are others who know about this miracle birth
The humblest of people catch a glimpse of their worth
For it isn’t to the palace that the Christ child comes
But to shepherds and street people, hookers and bums
And the message is clear if you’ve got [you have] ears to hear
That forgiveness is
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Contributed by Rick George on Mar 19, 2009
"The distinguishing mark of saving faith is not perfection. The mark of faith is not that I never sin...The mark of faith is that I fight. I fight anything that dims my sight of Jesus as my glorious Savior. I fight anything that diminishes the fullness of the lordship of Jesus in my life. I fight
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by C Jordan on Dec 27, 2009
GOD HAS SPOKEN...LISTEN!
"If God has spoken, listen! If God has recorded his words in a Book, search its pages with a believing heart. If you do not accept it as God’s inspired word, I cannot invite you to pay any particular attention to it; but if you regard it as the Book of God, I charge you,
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 19, 2010
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BLOTS AND BLEMISHES
In 2 Peter 2:13-14, false and immoral teachers are called "blemishes."
Some of you are teenagers, but those of us who are older can remember the blessings of acne. There were two pimples that were particularly embarrassing: a large one on the tip of you nose that made you look
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
MAKE THEM THIRSTY
The young salesman was disappointed about losing a big sale, and as he talked with his sales manager he lamented, "I guess it just proves you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink." The manager replied,
"Son, take my advice: your job is not to make him drink.
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Brethren
Contributed by Tim White on Jan 23, 2012
SURRENDER IS THE FIRST STEP
I have been told that there is a certain live animal trap that, if the trapped animal would simply back up a little, the trapping device would relax and he could escape.
That is the shape of mankind. If we would just let go of control of our lives, we would find
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on Mar 30, 2012
THE CROSS OF VICTORY
John Stott is his book The Cross of Christ, wrote, "It is impossible to read the New Testament with being impressed by the atmosphere of joyful confidence which pervades it, and which stands out in relief against the rather jejune (superficial) religion that often passes for
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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ADMIRAL GRAU
At all the military reviews in Peru there have a custom by which they pay honor to Admiral Grau, Peru’s noblest naval hero, killed in battle off the coast of Chile. Always at roll-call, Admiral Grau’s is the first name called. An orderly steps forward and pointing upward answers,
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