Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 8, 2008
John R. W. Stott writes: “Now a man in that mental and emotional state is in no mood to change his mind, or even to have it changed for him by men. … Only God could reach him-and God did!”
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 2, 2003
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MARRYING ALL OVER AGAIN
As monogamists we think we only marry one mate, but the fact is we all marry a number of people because our mates keep changing, and we have to adjust to these changes and learn to love a different person than the one we married. Through the years all mates change, and
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 4, 2007
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Our Daily Bread
A guy from Tyson Foods arranges to visit the Pope. After receiving the papal blessing he whispers, "Your Eminence, do we have a deal for you. If you change The Lord’s Prayer from "give us this day our daily bread…" to "give us this day our daily chicken…" we will donate $500 million
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 31, 2007
An alcoholic [who] became a believer, was asked how he could possibly believe all the nonsense in the Bible about miracles.
“You don’t believe that Jesus changed the water into wine do you?”
“I sure do, because in our house Jesus
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Nov 13, 2001
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The pickle jar as far back as I can remember sat on the floor beside the dresser in my parents’ bedroom. When he got ready for bed, Dad would empty his pockets and toss his coins into the jar.
As a small boy I was always fascinated at the sounds the coins made as they were dropped into the jar.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers you can blame anyone, but never blame yourself. Its never your fault. But its always your fault, because if you wanted to
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Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Jan 18, 2010
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LUCKY
Adrian Rogers says,
"God doesn't change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us."
He tells of the words in a paper: "Lost Dog" Small yellow dog- scarred with mange; two ears gone from
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Contributed by Scott Bradford on May 13, 2004
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I heard this story told Wednesday night at the Men’s Bible Study and I received permission to tell it here. It involves a TX Dot employee, who I said would remain nameless, but I was told that in TX Dot fashion I was permitted to use his initials "Randy".
Randy was apparently asked to change his
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Main Idea: God the Father sacrificed His only Son so that we could live.
Verse: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16 NKJV).
Illustration: Once there was a train engineer who had one
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church’s integrity problem is in the misconception "that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior." He goes on to say, "It is revival without
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 12, 2005
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Why do you follow Jesus? Patrick Morley has some important things to say about our answer to this question. "The American gospel has evolved into a gospel of addition without subtraction. It is a belief that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church’s integrity problem is in the misconception “that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior.” He goes on to say, “It is revival without
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 30, 2007
In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that the church’s integrity problem is in the misconception “that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in belief without a change in behavior.” He goes on to say, “It is revival without
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 19, 2000
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A Jewish banker gives this witness of the power of God through Christ to change lives. He says, "A few years ago I was sent to a place in Puerto Rico to make some studies for the bank. It was the worst, the dirties city imaginable Two years later I returned and it was completely changed.
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Contributed by R. Darrel Davis on Feb 10, 2001
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"Anyone who's ever had a brush with the thing called love knows that this feeling so desired is also tough to pin down," writes Curt Degenhartt. He says,"There are so many kinds. We’ve got lusty love, compassionate love, fraternal love, the kind of love you have for your grandparents, thrilling
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YOUR BELIEFS DETERMINE YOUR ATTITUDES
Gary Smalley tells us "I can hardly overstate how life-changing it was to find that my beliefs, not my circumstances, determined my attitudes and actions. When I took my beliefs seriously and began to examine and change them, it did wonders for me by giving me
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