Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 9, 2001
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One commentator said this:
“Jesus is saying that a religion concerned only with not doing anything wrong in order that its practitioner may one day stand vindicated ignores the will of God.”
[Leon Morris, p 631,
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Contributed by Larry Elder on Jul 12, 2003
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Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest
man present.
"Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you’d feel rather small
among us big fellows."
"I
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 13, 2004
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Martin Luther understood this when he wrote, "The maid who sweeps her kitchen is doing the will of God just as much as the monk who prays. The Christian shoemaker does his Christian duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes,
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Contributed by Paul Newell on Dec 4, 2006
Mike Yaconelli, in his little book, Messy Spirituality writes, “Spirituality is about doing the tiny work of God, little acts, small responses to God’s presence in our lives. Every week, my church shows me
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Baptist
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 6, 2007
John Wesley provides the most convicting analysis on what it means to be a true servant: “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at
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Baptist
Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
If there is not such a thing as sin, then what do we call, among other things, domestic violence, abortion, murder, cheating, and child abuse?’ Again I remind us this morning we only look at our local paper to see the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 24, 2008
Some say fish have a six second memory. So, when one fish gets caught on a hook, only six seconds later, all his fish friends are ready to get hooked again. People are like that. They see
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 8, 2008
“Love for our neighbor consists of three things: to desire the greater good of everyone; to do what good we can when we can; to bear, excuse and hide other’s faults”. (Barton, B. B. (1993). John.
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2008
A pastor-preacher of another generation, James Stalker, says that wisdom is ‘partially an intellectual virtue, but it consists much less in knowing than in doing’ as it, ‘slowly accumulates by experience’ and is also ‘learned through imitation.’ He also
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 28, 2008
William Barclay says it like this. "To believe in Jesus means to accept everything that Jesus said as absolutely true, and to stake our lives upon that in perfect trust. When we do that we enter into two new relationships. We
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Dec 4, 2008
Isn't it amazing that men can believe God powerful and able to do the astounding things recorded for us throughout Scripture, but will not attribute to Him the ability to bring forth life from a womb without the
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