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  • What People Put ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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    WHAT PEOPLE PUT OFF According to a recent USA Today poll, the top five things people put off until the last minute are: House chores/yard work: 47% Holiday gift shopping: 43% Making doctor/dentist appointments: 35% Calling relatives: 31% Changing oil in the car: 29% I think there is one thing ...read more

  • God Controls All That Happens In His World, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 12, 2001
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     | 2,099 views

    "God controls all that happens in His world, every meal, every pleasure, every possession, every bit of sun, every night’s sleep, every moment of health and safety, everything that sustains and enriches life, is a divine ...read more

  • The Spirit Is Elusive But Profound And Worthy Of ...

    Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Apr 6, 2005
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    The Spirit is elusive but profound and worthy of adoration. If Father points to ultimate reality and Son supplies the clue to the divine mystery, Spirit epitomizes the nearness of the power and presence of God. St John of the Cross aptly calls the Spirit a living flame of love and ...read more

  • Prayer Humbles Us By Reminding Us Of Our Place ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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    “Prayer humbles us by reminding us of our place in creation. Prayer strengthens us by reminding us that God loves and cares for each and every soul in His creation. And prayer blesses us by reminding us that there is a divine plan that ...read more

  • Those Who Seek To Live Your Lives For You, To ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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    "Those who seek to live your lives for you, to take your liberty in return for relieving you of yours, those who elevate the state and downgrade the citizen, must see ultimately a world in which earthly power can be substituted for divine will. And this nation was founded ...read more

  • Scheme Of Things

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
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    SCHEME OF THINGS The divine "scheme of things," as Christianity understands it, is at once extremely elastic and extremely rigid. It is elastic, in that it includes a large measure of liberty for the creature; it is rigid in that it includes the proviso that, however created beings choose to ...read more

  • The Old Structures Of The Denominations Are ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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    "The old structures of the denominations are realigning, redefining and collapsing in a way that they haven’t for 200 years," says Bill Leonard, Dean of Wake Forest Divinity School and American Christianity historian. People switching to evangelical, nondenominational churches is on the ...read more

  • Blast Welding

    Contributed by Andy Taylor on Dec 17, 2006
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    Illustration: Blast welding imagine two things put together that seem incompatible, Jesus humanity and divinity, being joined together by the great power of God and His love for us. It’s like in building a ship, joining aluminum of the top 10 stories of an ...read more

  • The April 16, 2007 Issue Of Time Magazine ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The April 16, 2007 issue of Time Magazine contains and excerpt from the new biography on Albert Einstein titled, Einstein and Faith. The last paragraph in the excerpt reads, “For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God’s existence. For Einstein, it was the absence of miracles that reflected ...read more

  • Denying Oneself

    Contributed by Jon Lipka on Mar 4, 2012
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    DENYING ONESELF "To deny oneself is not to do without something or even many things. It is not asceticism, nor self-rejection or self-hatred, nor is it even the disowning of particular sins. It is to renounce the self as the dominant element in life. It is to replace the self with God-in-Christ as ...read more

  • Facing Crisis  PRO

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 26, 2005
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    Pastor Andrew Murray of South Africa once faced a terrible crisis. Gathering himself into his study, he sat a long while quietly. Prayerfully, thoughtfully. He wrote this in his journal. 1. I am here by God’s appointment; in that fact I will rest. 2. He will keep me here in His love and ...read more

  • Hyperbole

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 13, 2020
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    I had to have a tooth removed last Thursday. It took me FOREVER to get an appointment. Once I got there and got back in the room where they were going to extract my tooth I felt like I was in an operating room not a dentist office. I remember back in the ‘80’s when I got two eye teeth removed they ...read more

  • It Is Distinctly Stated That The Son Of Man Is ...  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Gresham on Jan 19, 2004
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    “It is distinctly stated that the Son of Man is come to seek…Seeking the lost is more than a mere attempt to locate unsaved men, for they are present on every hand. The term ‘seeking the lost,’ therefore, suggests a divine preparation of the unsaved that will bring them into adjustment with the ...read more

  • Spurgeon: Jesus Christ Struck His Hands In ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Spurgeon: Jesus Christ struck his hands in sacred suretyship long ere the first of the stars began to shine and it was in Him that the elect were ordained unto eternal life. Thus in the divine purpose a most blessed covenant union was established between the Son of God and His elect ...read more

  • The Shepherd In His Search For The Sheep, And ...

    Contributed by Hal Seed on Jul 27, 2007
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    “The shepherd in his search for the sheep, and the woman in her search for the coin do not do anything out of the ordinary beyond what anyone in their place would do. But the actions the father takes in the third story are unique, marvelous, divine actions which have not been ...read more

  • Walking In The Fear Of The Lord Means Keeping A ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Feb 8, 2008
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    Walking in the fear of the Lord means keeping a continually tender conscience; abhorring all sin; having respect to every Divine precept; dreading to offend him from whom the soul has derived its being and its blessings. Without this salutary fear of God there ...read more

  • Poem By Charles Wesley

    Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 4, 2010
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    O that I might the power receive The simple life of faith to live, A stranger by the world unknown, To live, shut up with Christ alone! Jesus, my real Life Thou art, Inspire Thyself into my heart, And fill'd with purity divine I live, thro' ...read more

  • Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit

    Contributed by Josh Hunt on Feb 9, 2012
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    BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT "Those poor in spirit are called "blessed" by Jesus, not because they are in a meritorious condition, but because, precisely in spite of and in the midst of their ever so deplorable condition, the rule of the heavens has moved redemptively upon and through them by ...read more

  • Died And Rose Again

    Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Apr 7, 2012
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    DIED AND ROSE AGAIN "The whole story of the Church is one which imitates the story of her divine Master; she dies and she rises again. She was buried in the catacombs; she rose again with Constantine. She died in the Dark Ages; she rose again with Charlemagne. She died ...read more

  • Extremely Rigid And Elastic

    Contributed by Roy Fowler on Sep 13, 2020
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    FREEDOM The divine "scheme of things," as Christianity understands it, is at once extremely elastic and extremely rigid. It is elastic, in that it includes a large measure of liberty for the creature; it is rigid in that it includes the proviso that, however created beings choose to ...read more