Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 21, 2002
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Here are two quotes from E. K. Simpson’s commentary on Ephesians, regarding faith-v-works:
“If we breathe, it is because life has been breathed into us; if we exercise the hearing of faith, it is because our ears have been unstopped.” E. K. Simpson
“A ‘self-made’ man is almost inevitably
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Contributed by James Tidwell on Sep 28, 2008
I like what Dr. V. Raymond Edman says about faith: "Faith is dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities, knows nothing but success. Faith lifts its hand up through the threatening clouds, lays hold of Him who has all power in heaven and on earth.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2001
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A forwarded e-mail contained the following story ...
Wind Shield Wipers
One rainy afternoon I was driving along one of the main streets
of town, taking those extra precautions necessary when the roads
are wet and slick.
Suddenly, my son Matthew spoke up from his relaxed position in
the front
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Contributed by Martin Wiles on May 9, 2002
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One of England’s greatest preachers, W. E. Sangster, in Let Me Command, said, “The easiest way to embarrass a congregation of twentieth century Christians is to ask them two simple questions. ‘When is the last time you
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Contributed by John Quigley on Mar 1, 2005
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E. M. Bounds writes in "The Possibilities of Prayer" : "THE ministry of prayer has been the peculiar distinction of all of God’s saints. This has been the secret of their power. The energy and the soul of their work has been the closet. The need of help outside of man being so great, man’s natural
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Mar 15, 2006
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In 1915, Colonel T. E. Lawrence was traveling across the desert with some Arabs. Things were desperate. The food was almost gone, and the water was down to its last few drops. Their hoods over their heads to shelter them from the wind which was like a flame, and which was full of the stinging
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Contributed by Alan Tison on Jun 22, 2006
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E. Stanley Jones tells of a missionary who was lost in an African jungle, nothing around him but bush and a few cleared places. Finally he found a hut and asked the owner if he could get him out. The native said he could.
“All right,” said the missionary, “show me the way.”
The native said,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
E-Paper As early as this year French and Belgium news-paper publishers are finally getting ready to roll out an electronic product that will allow users to load full editions from the Internet onto digital screens. Flexible versions could be on the market by ‘07. “This could be a real substitution
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 28, 2003
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A recent e-mail asked readers to reflect on the following questions: 1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world. 2. Name the last five heisman trophy winners. 3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest. 4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize. 5. Name the
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Contributed by Joel Santos on Sep 23, 2004
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When W.E. Sangster was appointed General Secretary of the Home Mission Department of Methodist Church in Britain, he divided labor between his subordinates, assigned each responsibility, and gave up all supervision. He never regretted such trust. It was said of Sangster: “his greatest grasp of
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 2, 2007
E. Cotton Mather, a preacher in New England, offered this advice to the young Benjamin Franklin as Franklin approached a low-hanging beam in Mather’s parsonage: You are young and have the world
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Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
e. Elmer Towns tells about a member of a motorcycle gang who was converted to Jesus Christ dramatically and the first Sunday he did the only thing he knew he should do and so he went to church. Nobody in the church knew him and he walked down to the second aisle and sat in the seat. And the
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