Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 19, 2007
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Quote: J. C. Ryle’s observations on holy living still apply to all believers living in a world hostile to Christianity:
A holy man will follow after spiritual-mindedness. He will endeavor to set his affections entirely on things above, and to hold things on earth with a very loose hand. He will not
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 18, 2009
ATHIESM ON CAMPUS
70-75% of Christian youth leave the church after high school. Intellectual skepticism is one of the major reasons they walk away. Most Christian students are unequipped to resist rabidly anti-Christian college professors who are intent on converting their students to atheism.
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Apr 23, 2003
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As a two and three-year old I used to gather all my stuffed animals together and stand up on box and begin to “preach” to them. My Mom called me her “little preacher boy.” As a child God put within my imagination the dream of being a preacher.
As a teenager I began to pursue my divine-daring
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Alan Stokes on Mar 2, 2001
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Jim Wallis writes in The Call to Conversion (HarperCollins, 1992, p. 108) his testimony: "When I was a university student, I was unsuccessfully evangelized by almost every Christian group on campus. My basic response to their preaching was, “How can I believe when I look at the way the church
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Holiness
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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Tithing Down: The proportion of households that tithe their income to their church has dropped by 62% in the past year, from 8% in ‘01 to just 3% of adults during ‘02.
In ‘00, 12% of all born again adults tithed. The percentage rose to 14% in ‘01, but dropped to 6% in ‘02. Groups most likely to
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Contributed by Ted Mulder on Mar 24, 2007
C.S. Lewis observed, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Protestant Pastor Priorities: The Barna Group recently surveyed Protestant Senior Pastors ministry priorities for the coming year. Overall, 12 different ministry emphases were listed by at least 3% of the pastors. The top priorities were discipleship and spiritual development (47%); evangelism and
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Contributed by Daniel Lawson on Sep 2, 2007
Bill Faye, author of "Sharing Jesus without Fear," notes that Americans have found a new way to deny Christ: "It’s by keeping silent about him." Fay asked, "Do we really believe it when Jesus said that unless a person is saved, he’s damned?" And if we do, he asked, "How do we allow our people to
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Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 2, 2002
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Most United Methodists are aware that one of our practices is the use of unfermented juice of the grape for Holy Communion. While some other Protestant bodies share this practice, the possibility of the practice goes back to the late 19th century and a Methodist dentist named Thomas Bramwell
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 20, 2007
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Beware of human add ons; It’s like when you go to a store like Wal Mart or Makro and you buy loads of stuff and you think its really cheap till you go through the check out and you find out they havent added the VAT on until you ready to pay as you go through the check out.. There is a big add on
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Contributed by Harold Miller on Dec 15, 2000
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The native groups in the Peruvian Amazon have only known Christ for one generation. Just one generation ago they were fearful, aggressive, and animistic; all their contacts with outsiders were marked by violence. But now there are transformed. One missionary writes that since embracing faith in
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Mennonite
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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Thinkers down the ages have puzzled over the place of mankind in this immense universe in which we find ourselves. Perhaps you, like me, in a quiet moment have wondered, "What am I? Who am I?" G K Chesterton summarized it rather
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Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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It would be easy for MVP quarterback Curt Warner to give a "stay with it and pull yourself up by your own boot strap like I did" speech, but he doesn’t. According to Warner, much of the credit for his remarkable turn around goes to his wife Brenda, and his relationship to Jesus Christ.
At a
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 31, 2001
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CT STUDD: wealthy, nationally famous athlete put it all aside to disappear into the mission field: China, India, and then Africa. Lost from sight for 13 yrs without contact. WHY? ’Some people love to dwell near church with choir and
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on May 8, 2001
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Back in 1989 the missionary: Gene Dulin wrote:
A Romanian Christian told me of a communist government restriction on baptisms. One restraint was that proselytizing - baptizing someone from a non-church family - was forbidden.
Another law required that the names of all who were to be baptized
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