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                    Who Is Leading People To Christ? Recent Barna research finds that among Christians who embraced Christ before their teen years, half were led to Christ by their parents, with another 20% by some other friend or relative. 7% accepted Jesus in response to a minister’s personal prompting and 12% cited
                    
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                    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Apr 10, 2006
                
                
                
                    Let me read to something written by Oscar Wilde.  Oscar Wilde was a playwrite in the 19th century who was one of the leaders of the Decadence Movement of his era.  In modern use, decadence is often defined as a decline in or loss of excellence, obstructing the pursuit of ideals. It is typified by
                    
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                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 4, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    What is so special about a poppy on Remembrance Day?  Why not use a pansy?  Scarlet poppies grow naturally in conditions of disturbed earth throughout Western Europe. The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century, transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies,
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 22, 2004
                
                
                
                    On Monday, February 6, 1995, according to the Chicago Tribune, a Detroit bus driver finished his shift on the Route 21 bus and headed for the terminal. But somehow he took a wrong turn. He didn’t arrive at the terminal at the scheduled time of 7:19 p.m., and a short time later his supervisors
                    
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                    When Revelation was given to John all the apostles had been murdered because a shift occurred in Rome’s dealing with the Christians:
Christian History Issue 27 notes: “The persecutors and their motives changed in A.D. 64. On July 19 that year a great fire engulfed much of Rome; only four of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 27, 2008
                
                
                
                    The family is experiencing assaults on many fronts in the 21st century, but the U.S. Census Bureau reported February 20, 2008, that the traditional family of husband, wife, and two or more children is still common. The U.S. Census Bureau report said that almost 45 million (61 percent) of the
                    
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                    "Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds." - John 19:39b
"If the aloe and myrrh were in dried or powdered formed, a whole row of sacks would probably be necessary to make up this weight, and Nicodemus must have had assistance to be able to transport the load. The
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) reported the largest membership increases in a year, according to the National Council of Churches' 2008 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches. Although Jehovah's Witnesses currently rank 25th in size with over
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 30, 2010
                
                
                
                    We Always Turn to Something
In Thessalonica, notice those who heard the gospel responded by 1Thes1:9 turning to God from idols to serve the true and living God. 
In our 21st century western society there  has been a huge paradigm shift, a turning away from  Judea/Christian God centred worldview, 
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 3, 2010
                
                
                
                    AN ANGEL STORY
Julie and the kids were on their way home from the park when it happened. Ben was only about 5 years old and happily walking and running ahead on the edge of the road. There was no footpath beside the road, but he was still on the grassy area. Then he must have seen our house on the
                    
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                    Contributed by Tim White on May 7, 2011
                
                
                
                    BOSS: MARK DEVER ON THE FOUR ASPECTS OF LEADERSHIP
B=Boss. The leader "reproves, rebukes, and exhorts with all longsuffering and doctrine."
There is a delicate balance in local churches between pastoral authority (Hebrews 13) and congregational authority (Matthew 18).  The pastors must exercise
                    
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