Contributed by Daryl Bahn on Aug 28, 2001
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On one of his old history books, someone once wrote, “In case of famine, eat this book; it’s full of baloney! In case of flood, stand on this book; it’s dry!” The world sees the Bible in much the same
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 3, 2002
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ISLAM'S REACH
Islam has rapidly grown to become the second largest religion in the world, with almost one billion adherents – nearly one in every five persons on earth. In the United States there are presently more Muslims than
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 7, 2002
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We are sometimes like the man who was eating Limburger cheese and got it in his mustache. He first stated that the room smelled rotten. Then the front porch, he then stepped out into the yard and exclaimed, “The whole world is
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Contributed by John Cuddeford on Oct 18, 2002
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THE MUSE OF GOOD FRIDAY?
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
SOURCE: W.
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Dec 14, 2004
“You were made for a mission. God is at work in the world and he wants you to join him. This assignment is called your mission…is both shared and specific. One part of it is a responsibility you share with every other Christian, and the other
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Church Of God
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“One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement… It is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
ACID TEST
Sometimes we use the expression an "acid test." This term originated during times when gold was widely circulated. Nitric acid was applied to an object of gold to see if it was genuine or not. If it was fake, the acid decomposed it; if it was
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Brethren
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 16, 2008
"The family, though the smallest and seemingly most fragile of institutions (is) proving itself to be humankind's bedrock as well as its fault line (whose) strength lies in the cohesion and loyalty of the parent-child unit around which larger worlds of
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
We live, I believe, in a new time, a new age, in which the old ways and practices no longer work. This is 2009, not 1959 nor 1969 nor 1979 nor 1989 or even 1999. The assumptions about Christianity and the Church,
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Nov 16, 2007
Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jul 27, 2006
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John Pierpont died a failure. In 1866, ar the age of 81, he came to the end of his days as a government clerk in Washington, D.C., with a long string of personal defeats.
Things began well enough. He graduated from Yale, which his grandfather had helped found and chose education as his
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sam Mccormick on Jul 5, 2017
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CHOSEN
1 Peter 2:4
…you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious…
I was awful. No one had to tell me – I knew it. In my hometown of Littlefield, Texas, the kids used to find a vacant lot relatively bare of weeds, choose up teams and play baseball.
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 30, 2008
What is more alarming that an outbreak of fire?
The fire of sin broke out in Eden
And has spread over the whole world
The only way of escape is to be pulled out
There is a ladder of escape like the ladder Jacob dreamed of, that reaches to heaven it is
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way,
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 23, 2025
[209]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – OUR PILGRIM JOURNEY HOME
Here is an explanation – The title of this poem expresses the walk and life of a Christian who lives for a short time in this world and then is called home. There is a slight touch of Bunyan’s Pilgrim Progress here.
The KJV is the only
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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If you look at a sundial on a cloudy day, the pointer doesn’t leave a shadow to indicate the time, it’s quite ineffective in that state. Without the “sealing of the Spirit” we’re just like that sundial, failing to live up to expectation and realizing
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