After choosing the title of this sermon I began looking for an illustration that captured the sense of what I meant by a “black market sacrifice.” And to my great distress I found one – kind of. The search for an illustration became the illustration. Confused? Let me explain.
When I prepare
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Daniel Devilder on Oct 24, 2006
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As Dallas Willard observes: “In fasting, we learn how to suffer happily as we feast on God. [Fasters . . .] will have a constant sense of their
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word the vocation
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"wonder is the very essence of life. Beware always of losing the wonderThe only evidence of salvation or sanctification is that the sense of wonder is developing, not at
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all this I try to form an idea into which I
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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A curious person who asks questions may be a fool for five minutes; he who never asks
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Four men used to meet together each week in Memphis. One man was a service station owner, one man was a salesman for a wholesale appliance company, one man was assistant treasurer of a large corporation, and one man was a teacher. These men shared with each other their longings, desires, and
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Warren Lamb on Aug 19, 2007
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Obedience
I used to have problems getting my son to clean his room. I would insist that he, “Do it now,” and he would always agree to do so, but then he wouldn’t follow through – at least, not right way.
After high school, he joined the Marine Corps, which is where he is now. When he and I were
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Todd Brock on Nov 13, 2008
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There was a man who used to have problems getting his son to clean his room. He would insist that his son, “Do it now,” and he would always agree to do so, but then he wouldn’t follow through – at least, not right way.
After high school, the son joined the Marine Corps. When he and his dad were
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
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In Bill Moyers’s book A World of Ideas II, Jacob Needleman remembers,
"I was an observer at the launch of Apollo 17 in 1975. It was a night launch, and there were hundreds of cynical reporters all over the lawn, drinking beer, wisecracking, and waiting for this 35-story-high rocket.
"The
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Pentecostal
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