Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 18, 2007
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Had some friends over for lunch after church. It is our custom to serve wine when guests come over for a meal. To us it shows how special they are. They explained that they don’t drink on Sundays out of respect for
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The early Christians were aflame. And, just as moths are attracted to the flame, so will others be drawn to us if we burn brightly and intensely for God. But proximity alone will not ignite them; we must touch them with the spark
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SPURGEON ON ROMANS 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23).
C.H. Spurgeon said about this verse, "It is a Christian proverb, a golden
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By Bobby G. Bodenhamer, D.Min.
For October 19, 2008
Introduction - A life of "change"
Isn’t it remarkable how rapidly things change? In looking at this passage in Jeremiah my mind was drawn back over my life time. I was borne (I think I was born. Dad always told me that he found me in an old
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 9, 2008
Notice words that end in “ician,” and see how that means one who specialize in something.
E.g., musician, beautician (One shop had a sign that said, “What you see in our hand is a comb; it is not a magic wand”), physician,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 26, 2007
Open doors reports that in Oct 11 2006 Michael Dhabi an evangelist to Muslims in Ethiopia was martyred for his faith. Muslim extremists tried to force Michael to convert to Islam – he refused they repeatedly attacked him with a machete – throughout the
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
H. Richard Niebuhr summarized the core of liberal theology in a single sentence: “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ with a cross.”
Michael G. Moriarty, The
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Contributed by Dale Harlow on Jan 14, 2003
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote;
Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. So the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 23, 2007
Richard Wurmrand spent 14 years under communism imprisonment and torture Rumania 1945. He started a underground church bringing Russians to Christ. “A flower if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its
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Baptist
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 2, 2009
Mrs. Chung was one of the first believers in northern Hubei province of China. Though she was publicly humiliated for her faith in Christ, she remained faithful. Now, 40 years later, she can point to over 10,000
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"The destroyed Temple is no longer regarded as the place of God’s earthly presence. The Temple built of stone has ceased to express the hope of Christians; its curtain is torn forever. Christians [now] look toward the east, the rising sun. This is
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Catholic
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 14, 2024
[012] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - ABOUT A PLEASANT WAY
I wanted to compose a simple poem that might be able to be used as a song. This was the result. I like the flow of words, which is what rhythm is all about and I like to compose that way mostly. However I am not musical in the sense of
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Jun 18, 2025
[108]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GRACE IS THE KEY TO HOLINESS
This is a poem that has to be read carefully for understanding because of the construct of the poem. The subject is certainly GRACE, but grace can never be in isolation. There is a strong but harmonising relationship with LOVE,
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Contributed by W F on Apr 6, 2007
Many years ago a painter by the name of Stenburg lived in Dusseldorf Germany. He was searching for a model to portrait. He chose a gypsy girl from the street, her name was Pepita. It was the first time for her to be invited to an artist’s studio. Her amazed eyes rounded here and there and suddenly
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