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  • Defining Moments

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2009
     | 2,275 views

    DEFINING MOMENTS The American director, Ken Burns (Born: 1953), once said; and, I quote: "Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being." The American public servant, Donald Evans (Born: 1946), once said; and, I ...read more

  • Defining Moments Of Faith  PRO

    Contributed by Rick Stacy on Dec 23, 2002
    based on 64 ratings
     | 4,522 views

    DEFINING MOMENTS OF FAITH Several years ago Jeff Strueker was a US Army Ranger posted in Mogadishu, Somalia. Today he is a master of divinity student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. For him Oct 3-4, 1993 were the defining moments of his life. He was one of the ...read more

  • Defining Moments Of Faith

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Aug 11, 2010
     | 1,835 views

    DEFINING MOMENTS OF FAITH Several years ago Jeff Strueker was a US Army Ranger posted in Mogadishu, Somalia. Today he is a master of divinity student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. For him Oct 3-4, 1993 were the defining moments of his life. He was one of the ...read more

  • You've Heard Of Self-Defining Moments, I'm Sure. ...

    Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Jan 25, 2007
     | 1,336 views

    You’ve heard of self-defining moments, I’m sure. A self-defining moment occurs when something happens that determines your identity from that instant forward. Because of some event or incident, whatever it may be, you will never be the same again. I had such a moment each time my children were ...read more

  • Defining Religion  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
    based on 19 ratings
     | 5,088 views

    DEFINING RELIGION Religion is hanging around the cross, Christianity is hanging on ...read more

  • Define Miracle  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,834 views

    DEFINE MIRACLE A miracle is a divine intervention into, or interruption of, the regular course of the world that produces a purposeful but unusual event that would not have occurred otherwise(Geisler). Scholar, William Lane Craig gives us an even more simple definition: A miracle is an event ...read more

  • Defining A Neighbor  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2004
    based on 5 ratings
     | 5,594 views

    DEFINING A NEIGHBOR It’s been said, "One cannot define one’s neighbor; one can only be a neighbor." Haddon Robinson said, "Your neighbor is anyone whose need you see, whose need you are able to meet." A neighbor is someone who says, "What is mine is God’s and what is God’s belongs to my ...read more

  • Meditation Defined

    Contributed by Angel Caballero on Jun 7, 2009
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    MEDITATION DEFINED Meditation - The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the ...read more

  • Limits Defined

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Jun 24, 2009
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    LIMITS DEFINED As I began to think and pray on the passage that we will uncover and talk about today, I started to think about "limits." The most obvious limit I could think of was "speed limit." A speed limit, of course, is the maximum speed allowed on a road for a vehicle. Believe it or not, the ...read more

  • Save Defined

    Contributed by Angel Caballero on Jan 4, 2010
     | 2,648 views

    "SAVE" DEFINED The word "save" in the Greek is the word sozo which literally means to heal, preserve, save, do well, and be (make) whole. It means deliverance in the present as well ...read more

  • Ethics Defined

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 19, 2010
     | 2,279 views

    ETHICS DEFINED According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, ethics is, "The science of morals, or of human duty… Applied ethics presents a scheme of action applicable to the various relations of human life and labor, and sets forth what the rights and duties are which are involved in these ...read more

  • The Momentous Event

    Contributed by N A on Sep 11, 2008
     | 2,131 views

    QUOTE ON DANIEL’S SEVENTIETH WEEK: "The procedure of those who separate the 70th week from the 69th, by an interval already far greater than the whole of the 70 weeks, is ...read more

  • Seize The Moment!  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on Jun 7, 2001
    based on 75 ratings
     | 3,026 views

    I liked the way humorist Erma Bombeck put it: Seize the moment! Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved ...read more

  • An Unforgettable Moment

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,676 views

    AN UNFORGETTABLE MOMENT In those times in our lives when we receive big news, whatever that might be, our minds are forever imprinted with the emotion and excitement captured in that moment. We hear of an upcoming marriage, a baby on the way, an acceptance to school, whatever it might be – and ...read more

  • A Blessed Moment

    Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
     | 3,572 views

    A Blessed Moment I want to share a personal story with you that meant the world to me. I have seldom felt so loved and appreciated by my father as on our last trip visit our parents in Paraguay just a few months ago. I share this story because I want families. And, you might say that it is even a ...read more

  • A Managerial Job Is Defined By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 1,320 views

    "A managerial job is defined by relationshipsupwards, ...read more

  • Walk In The Spirit Defined

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 25, 2009
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    "WALK IN THE SPIRIT" DEFINED For example, the students of Aristotle were known as the Peripatetics because of their habit of following the philosopher around from place to place as he dispensed his teachings. In Paul’s vocabulary, to "walk in the Spirit" or be "led by the Spirit" means to go where ...read more

  • Defining Deviancy Down

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 15, 2007
     | 826 views

    Defining Deviancy Down U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan recently published a disturbing essay entitled “Defining Deviancy Down.” In the November 22 issue of The New Republic, commentator Charles Krauthammer writes that “Moynihan’s powerful point is that with the moral deregulation of the ...read more

  • The Dictionary Defines A Pestilence As A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 3,071 views

    The dictionary defines a pestilence as a widespread and often fatal infectious disease. In 1995 the World Health Organization said, “the world is ripe for super plagues of apocalyptic proportions.” In 1996, Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima, the Director of the World Health Organization said, “We are standing ...read more

  • What Defines You?  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 30, 2008
    based on 3 ratings
     | 1,721 views

    WHAT DEFINES YOU? Alex Gibney's documentary on the life of "Gonzo" Hunter S. Thompson suggests that Thompson, "who committed suicide in 2005, survives to some degree in the popular imagination because of his self-burnished reputation for excess." (A.O. Scott, "Beyond Fear and Loathing", The New ...read more