Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 26, 2009
David Guzik comments on why there are 12 tribes, although defined with variation:
"12 is a number often associated with government or administration in God’s eyes. There are 12 tribes, 12 apostles, 12 princes of Ishmael, 12 pillars on Moses’ altar, 12 stones on the high priest’s breastplate, 12
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Contributed by Bill Sullivan on May 9, 2012
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THEY DID NOT FEAR DEATH
Many of you have read Foxe's Book of Martyrs. It’s certainly not light bedtime reading, but is nevertheless inspiring and relevant as we look at this passage of scripture this morning.
It’s important to remember that each of the apostles suffered persecution, and most
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Contributed by Keith Andrews on Jun 5, 2002
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J.I. Packer shows how Paul expresses his humility. Paul says
I am the least of the apostles. 1 Corinthians 15:9
I am the very least of all the saints. Ephesians 3:8
I am the foremost of sinners. 1 Timothy
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 7, 2004
The cradle of the church was the marketplace. From the preaching and public ministry of Jesus to the daily acts of the apostles, the central scene was the marketplace. Perhaps the greatest need for our day is the need to market Jesus Christ. The church must become expert in marketing: Not in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Faith is not an opinion, but a certitude. The substance of things hoped for, says the Apostle not the phantasies of empty conjecture. You hear the substance. You may not dispute on the faith as you please; you may not wander here and there through the wastes of opinion, the byways of error. By
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We "must distinguish between the error, which must always be rejected, and the person in error, who never loses his dignity as a person even though he flounders amid false or inadequate religious ideas. God alone is the judge and the searcher of
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It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the professed spirituality is simply a false experience, a delusion of the devil. People who are satisfied to meet together simply to have a good time among
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 3, 2024
The Arms Race was on; we no longer feared atomic bombs, but the H-bomb. Bomb shelters would not protect against that greater level of destruction.
At one point, we were a button away from a nuclear holocaust. According to wikipedia.com, “Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov…. was a lieutenant colonel of
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Nov 10, 2008
A young soldier was in his tent when the battle was just about to break out. He heard an explosion and jumped into the nearest fox hole. His fellow soldiers looked at him and laughed. They all said, "That was our artillery going off." He had jumped into the
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Contributed by Brad Bailey on Aug 9, 2004
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A minister had run out of time to prepare for a sudden funeral. Using the latest
technology, he went to his computer and found the funeral service he had used last,
and doing a word "search and replace", had the computer put in the name of the newly
deceased, "Edna", as a replacement for the
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Contributed by N A on Aug 29, 2006
QUOTE: “Often hobbling through our church doors on Sunday morning comes grace on crutches – sinners still unable to throw away their false supports and stand upright in the freedom of the children of God. Yet, their mere presence at church on Sunday morning is a flickering candle representing a
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