Contributed by Richard Francis on Jun 23, 2007
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Their prayers were answered, the room shock for starters that would liven up most prayer meetings! Prayer will open the door...THEY WERE ASTONISHED. ACTS 12:16Peter had been arrested and was locked up in jail for the next few days before being executed. Sixteen soldiers were assigned to guard him.
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 12, 2007
The father of a small boy would occasionally sneak into a neighbor’s orchard and pluck some of the choicest fruit. He always made sure, however, that "the coast was clear." One day with his son tagging along, after carefully looking in every direction and seeing no one, he crept through the
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Pentecostal
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Holiness
Are you living a HOLY life? If I went to your friends at work and asked, "Is (you) a Christian?" How would they answer?
Would they say "Absolutely! The guy prays at every meal, he will pray with people who are hurting, he always is there to help out, and he is the best employee at our
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Kermit Reaves on Jul 24, 2007
Some people are asleep because they have never been awake. I am familiar with that state because I was once in it myself. I attended church, heard God’s Word preached, sang the great hymns, listened to others pray — but with no depth of comprehension. I was simply present where others worshiped. I
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 13, 2007
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The Slavic peoples today populate several nations: the Czech Repulic, Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, Russia, Ukrania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia.
During Medieval times, the Slavic peoples were ready to convert to a "modern" religion. They were between three
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Daniel Lawson on Sep 2, 2007
Bill Faye, author of "Sharing Jesus without Fear," notes that Americans have found a new way to deny Christ: "It’s by keeping silent about him." Fay asked, "Do we really believe it when Jesus said that unless a person is saved, he’s damned?" And if we do, he asked, "How do we allow our people to
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 7, 2007
Fact: Since 1900, the percentage of the world’s atheistic and non-religious peoples (agnostics, secularists, communists, and so on) has grown from 0.2 percent to 21.3 percent - in other words from less than one-fifth of one percent to over one fifth of the world’s population. This is the most
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Baptist
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 21, 2007
"Remember Eeyore the donkey from the Winnie the Pooh stories? He is a sad, droop-eared character who is forever losing his tail and resigning himself to the idea of going through life without it until someone finds it for him and pins it back on. Even then he is never joyful over finding his
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Orthodox
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
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A sacrifice of praise will always cost you something. It will be a difficult thing to do. It requires trading in our pride, our anger, and most valued of all, our human logic. We will be compelled to voice our words of praise firmly and precisely, even as our logic screams that God has no idea what
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
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The people in Corinth had some interesting ideas about being single as well. Written from Ephesus during the Apostle Paul’s third missionary journey from 53-57 AD, 1 Corinthians 7 commences the second part or division of this Epistle, or, “the discussion of those points which had been submitted to
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Contributed by Paul Steffens on Dec 11, 2007
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Why did the Philistines allow Samson’s hair go grow back when they knew it was the key to his great strength?
Was it because they blinded his eyes? No, for even a blind
but strong Samson could cause severe havoc.
Why then did they allow his hair to grown back? Because the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
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LAST CHANCE
When Bishop Philip Brooks, author of "O, Little Town of Bethlehem," was seriously ill, he requested no friends come to see him. But when an acquaintance of his named Robert Ingersoll, a famous anti-Christian propagandist, came to see him he allowed him to come in right away. Ingersoll
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Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Feb 5, 2009
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How did Titus do in Crete?
Titus led the church in Crete until 105 AD, when he died at age 94. The church in Crete experienced many internal and external stresses, much of it due to the friction of the island. These tensions, however, did not impact the religious strength or stamina of the church
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Christian Missionary Alliance
Contributed by Richard Francis on May 10, 2009
DISCIPLESHIP THROUGH REPENTANCE
As A. W. Tozer said, "A growing Christian must have at his roots the life-giving waters of penitence. The cultivation of a penitential spirit is absolutely essential to spiritual progress. The lives of great saints teach us that self-distrust is vital to godliness.
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Nigel Heath on Jul 28, 2009
CATERPILLARS AND CHAMELEONS
There are two creatures on earth that I find equally fascinating. One is the caterpillar and the other the chameleon. Chameleons have the amazing ability to alter their appearance in order to blend into their background. Christians who do this have no effective
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Baptist
Swindoll notes, “The first quality God saw in David was spirituality. ‘The Lord has sought out …a man after His own heart? Seems to me, it means that you are a person whose life is in harmony with the Lord. What is important to Him is important to you. What burdens Him burdens you. When he says,
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 24, 2009
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SOLZHENITSYN: MEN HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD
In his 1983 acceptance speech for the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn recalled the words he heard as a child, when his elders sought to explain the ruinous upheavals in Russia: "Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has
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