Contributed by Todd Pugh on Jan 14, 2008
I asked a pastor friend who is native pastor from India, "What do people in India think about America?" Because many people in the world truly despise us. So I asked him. He said, “People in India think America is heaven on the Earth.” Wow, what an indictment, I thought. They look at us and see
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Contributed by Asun Delong on Feb 22, 2010
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Ye must be born again. The necessity is implied in the word kingdom. A citizen of Philippines cannot become a citizen of the United States without complying with our naturalization laws. The kingdom of God has its own
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I collected a few quotes from our Nation’s Founders that illustrate how much they expected Christians to influence the nation. (These are just a few of the many quotes I could have used!)
Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Whoever shall introduce into the public affairs the principles of primitive
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Holdcroft on Jun 19, 2007
I heard a quote that was made by the man who started the first police force in Britain.
‘The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen…’
Robert Peel
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Mar 22, 2002
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Probably no foreigner exerted greater leadership over the people of Shaohsing, China, in the early twentieth century than Dr. Claude H. Barlow. This self-effacing medical missionary was the personification of a God-influenced life.
A strange disease for which he knew no remedy was killing the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
90% or more of adult Americans say they are good citizens, friendly and
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Contributed by Doug Lyon on Dec 11, 2006
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Here is a copy of my birth certificate. [Show document.] My birth certificate indicates that I was born in Rochester, NY in 1955. It objectively testifies to me that that I am a citizen of the United States. I don’t need to ask myself, “Do I feel like a U.S. citizen?” My birth certificate
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 22, 2007
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5179. Lambie Renounces Citizenship
Dr. Thomas Lambie went to Ethiopia as a medical missionary. After some time he wanted to buy land for a mission station. An Ethiopian law said that no land could be sold to foreigners. Because Dr. Lambie had great love for Christ and the Ethiopians, he gave up his
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1. Introduction
Ephesians 2 verse 19, it says … “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints, and also members of the household of God”.
There is a lot in that verse … but I will start by focusing on the phrase, “members of the household of God” … so
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The tax farmers in Israel, here called tax-collectors, were somewhat different from IRS agents. They were more like Mafia enforcers, employing thugs to shake down local citizens and merchants. The Romans specified how much each tax man was supposed to pay them, and the architelōē or
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Don’t expect the Kingdom of this World to respect the Kingdom of God. Far from it, citizens of God’s Kingdom have always been --- and will always be criticized and misunderstood and (as we see in this case) even DEMONIZED.
I think of a man like Jerry Falwell --- who died recently. He was most
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 19, 2003
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A PRAYER FOR A NATION AT WAR
Our Father in Heaven,
We thank You that You know exactly what is going on here on earth. We sinful human beings constantly find ourselves confused, distressed, and alarmed because of our own behavior and that of others. What miseries result from our sinful
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