Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 9, 2008
I noted some comments made by Jan Silvious this past week on Moody radio. Guest Jan Silvious stated that controlling type people (control or power freaks) don’t usually have
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
To be a missional church does not mean adding a bunch more programs but building relationships with people that we know and love and that Jesus knows and loves by simply being with them along the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 31, 2001
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Suppose you were to move into a large house in San Francisco with a group of ten randomly selected homosexual men in their mid-thirties. According to the most recent research from scientific sources, whose authors are without exception either neutral or positive in their assessment of homosexual
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Contributed by Vic Folkert on Dec 1, 2006
To know your spouse, you need to know all you can about their history: their life before they met you. It’s the same with God: We want to know all we can about his history of
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by David Dykes on Mar 31, 2003
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Studies have shown people who don’t regularly attend church are reluctant to come to a worship service alone. But the same studies reveal over 90 percent of Americans say they want to learn more about the
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Baptist
Markman, Stanley and Blumberg in their book “Fighting for Your Marriage” stated, “There is at least one constant in our ever-changing world: regardless of gender, culture, socioeconomic status, skin color, and language, nearly everyone
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
PASTORS AND FRIENDS
Years back, a minister friend of mine made this comment in a Preacher’s Meeting. He said, "I’m sure you all know by now that none of us can afford the luxury of having friends in the churches we serve. We must remain aloof in order to protect ourselves from all kinds of
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jan 23, 2004
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“The Spirit’s empowerment is what allows us to exhibit what He wants – the love, the unity, the sacrifice, the selflessness, the exhibition of the covenantal relationship between Christ and the church, etc. But that means walking with and submitting to the Spirit. To the degree that I / we do
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Orthodox
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
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FACT VS. FAITH
A pastor was speaking to his people on the relationship between fact and faith.
He said, "That you are sitting before me in this church--is fact. That I am standing here, speaking from this
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Brethren
Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 24, 2003
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In his Dictionary of the New Testament, Xavier Leon-Dufour, says this about the biblical meaning of disciple, ‘In the [New Testament], the word does not appear except in the gospels and in Acts. It is never a case of the “pupil” who receives instruction from a
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Church Of God
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jan 25, 2003
Our Maker so designed us that our nature finds final satisfaction and fulfillment only in a relationship of responsive Godlikeness—which means, precisely, that state of correspondence between our acts and God’s will which we call
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Baptist
Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jul 2, 2023
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The late A. W. Tozer had some wise counsel on how to test the spirits” from I John 4:1. He posed seven tests to apply to any teaching:
(1) How does the teaching affect my relationship with God? Is He magnified and glorified, or diminished?
(2) How does the teaching affect my attitude toward
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A foolish old farmer, so the story goes, concluded one day that the oats he had fed his mule for years were simply costing him too much. So he hatched a plan he mixed a little sawdust in with the feed, and then a little more the next day, and even more the next, each time reducing the amount of
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 23, 2007
Unopened Letters
A childhood accident caused poet Elizabeth Barrett to lead a life of semi-invalidism before she married Robert Browning in 1846.
There’s more to the story. In her youth, Elizabeth had been watched over by her [oppressive] father. When she and Robert were married, their wedding was
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Baptist
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