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Four practical ways to overcome temptation:
(1) Study and know yourself. Know where you’re vulnerable and devise strategies to protect yourself. Others may be able to handle situations where you will fall. Don’t go with them if it is a source of temptation for you. Develop a deep distrust in
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Contributed by Jasper Rains on Oct 18, 2009
John mentions three areas of sin here. I want to take a moment and dig a bit further to see what each of these sins really mean. I wan to try and help you see what John is telling us is of the world and will lead to death.
• Lust of the flesh: Putting our desires first. – Sex, pleasures
• Lust of
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THE GLORY OF AGING
A woman nearly 100 years old wrote:
This old shell in which I dwell
Is growing old, I know full well,
But I am not the shell.
What if my hair is turning gray,
Gray hair is honorable, they say.
What if my sight is growing dim,
I still can see to follow Him.
What should I care
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 20, 2002
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THE CASE OF CHRIST
[Richard] Bandler tells one story about visiting a mental institution and dealing with a man who insisted he was Jesus Christ - not metaphorically, not in spirit, but in the flesh. One day Bandler walked in to meet this man. "Are you Jesus?" he said. "Yes, my son," the man
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Contributed by Rick Stacy on Mar 24, 2002
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I WAS WRONG
Jim Bakker is back in the pulpit again. "It’s awesome to die and come back," he told about 400 worshipers at Way of Life Church, where he was the guest speaker Sunday.
The former PTL Ministries leader presided over a multimillion dollar TV ministry until he resigned amid a sex and
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Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 9, 2002
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The Rhone River begins its journey in the Switzerland Alps, some 5000 feet above sea level. It is one of the most important commercial waterways in France, stretching more than 500 miles in length. The river that glistens and sparkles through France, however, is much different than it was at its
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 19, 2007
Powerful.”
Richard Selzer, MD, writes in his book Mortal Lessons,
I stand by the bed where a young woman lies, her face postoperative, her mouth twisted in palsy, clownish. A tiny twig of the facial nerve, the one to the muscles of her mouth, has been severed. She till be thus from now on. The
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Church Of God
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 23, 2007
Surgery for the “New Born”
Several years ago an orthopedic surgeon performed an operation on my son to repair a torn ACL. The operation didn’t restore his knee to its original condition, but it did allow him to walk, even though he still experiences pain from time to time.
Recently my wife had
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
THE GREAT INVITATION
Isaiah 55:6 “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, and call ye upon Him while He is near.”
It was a cold, winter day. A carcass, on an ice floe, floated slowly down the Niagra River. An Eagle, flying overhead, spied the easy prey below, and descended upon it. He began to eat.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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The queen of England was a teen when World War II broke out. When she was old enough she asked her father, King George VI, to let her join the army and serve her country as others were doing. Her father allowed her to join the Auxiliary Territorial Service as a private. She had a superior officer
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
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AMAZING GRACE – 7 VS.
A little-known fact is that when this song was penned nearly 200 years ago by John Newton it was not titled "Amazing Grace". Its original title was "Faiths Review and Expectation".
It also had seven verses and not four as originally written.
Verse 1
Amazing grace! How
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Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Sep 15, 2009
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BATTLEFIELD AWAY FROM HOME
He cherished every letter that came from her. His deployment had started six long months ago. No end date was in sight. These were the days before emails and webcams. Those handwritten letters from his sweetheart was his only lifeline out of those trenches to back home.
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Contributed by James Jack on Jan 8, 2010
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Richard Wurmbrand was a Christian pastor in Romania in the middle of the communist era. In 1945 there was great conference run by the communists where one by one the church leaders of Romania got up and pledged allegiance to Stalin and the communist system. Although the Soviet state was by
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 5, 2011
SET FREE
It all began on Sunday, December 11, 2005, when a fisherman spotted a 50-ton humpback whale tangled up in crab trap lines off the coast in northern California. His call for help was answered by a group of Coast Guard divers and whale experts.
The rescue operation was both difficult and
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