Contributed by Ken Henson on Oct 15, 2012
If we want to come to Jesus there will be opposition.
John Stott was the pastor of All Saints Church in London. I had a chance to meet John Stott while I was in London. He died last year. He is really credited with starting the evangelical movement in England. Before that movement was started,
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 21, 2012
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WORKING HARD TO EARN SALVATION
United Methodist Bishop Reuben Job writes,
"If we are just good enough, do enough, deny ourselves enough, we will be forgiven, redeemed, and reconciled to God. Following this path brings no peace, assurance, or sense of companionship with God. Rather than asking
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2025
From just before the time of Christ (when Jesus was a child, Hillel was still alive).
"He [Hillel] would stand at the gate of Jerusalem and meet people going to work. He questioned them, "How much will you make at work today?" One person would answer, "A denarius." Another
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There is a big difference between knowledge and wisdom. First, let us understand that there is no such thing as wisdom unless it pertains to wisdom from God. All other earthly wisdom is foolishness, according to God. Now that we have that straight, what exactly is the difference.
Well, my
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One of the best leaders and models of loving leadership was Dawson Trotman, who died after helping to rescue two drowning girls.
Trotman died in Schroon Lake, New York. He died in an area that he was an expert in — he drowned. He was an expert swimmer.
The last few moments of his life, he
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 9, 2022
Where does the expression “jumpin’ Jehoshaphat!” come from? A reader wrote in to ask, and I had a lovely time trying to figure it out. No one is sure how Jehoshaphat’s name ended up in this interjection, or why he’s jumping, but there are several interesting possibilities.
This mild oath first
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 15, 2008
In our study group, it was mentioned that if someone broke in and stole all the Christmas gifts not to mention the decorations and Christmas ham, then most of us would have a pretty miserable Christmas. Very few of us would get up and see the empty house and walk outside and start singing the
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Opening Illustration: Show the wine skin – explain the meaning of Jesus teaching here to the church.
The teaching is simple – you cannot put new wine in to old wineskins because the old worn out skins will burst and the new wine will be lost. Instead there needs to be new wine and a new skin to
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Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 26, 2009
BE A LINE-GUIDE
When they were teaching me to march in the Navy, for a while until they learned that I have eye problems (go figure) they made me a line-guide. A line-guide is in the front corner of the ranks and marches straight, so that everyone else can mark their place off him.
The line-guide
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Contributed by Brian Mavis on Dec 15, 2003
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Allah or Jesus?
Last month I attended my annual training session that’s required for mai
ntaining my state prison security clearance. During the training session
there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic,
Protestant and Muslim faiths who explained their belief
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 18, 2006
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’If we could shrink the Earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be:
’57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South
8 Africans
52 would be
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Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Apr 5, 2006
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Our spiritual heritage in missions traces back to Adoniram Judson who lived from 1788-1850. Years ago I read his biography. Judson lived the suffering life of the apostle Paul. He was one of the first to bring the Christian message to the Burmese. When war broke out with England, the Burmese
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