Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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John Wesley was so concerned with building a righteous fellowship that he devised a series of questions for his followers to ask each other every week. Some found this rigorous system of inquiry too demanding and left. Today, the very idea of such a procedure would horrify many churchgoers. Yet
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 8, 2008
“Left to ourselves, we seek our own. Movie stars marry movie stars. Doctors seek out doctors. Middle-classers seek out middle-classers. Bikers seek bikers. But when Christ comes, that changes. In the church of Jesus Christ, we discover that the people we love and with whom we fellowship are
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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John Piper says that sin …"gets its power by persuading me to believe that I will be more happy if I follow it. The power of all temptation is the prospect that it will make me happier."
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Submission That word has received such a bad reputation that we rarely use it. It is the willful act of yielding to the power, control or authority of another. Submission is a voluntary act. It is a critical part of the learning process. Submission is a
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 12, 2007
Brownlow North. “There is nothing that may not take a man to Christ, but there is nothing but
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 1, 2004
Corporations often ask their constituents to vote “by proxy.” The proxy is an authorized agent who votes on our behalf, your representative.
The human race has only two proxies: Adam and Jesus Christ. Adam is the default proxy, for we are all
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Charles H. Spurgeon: “It is not our littleness that hinders Christ; but our bigness. It is not our weakness that hinders Christ; it is our strength. It is not our darkness that hinders Christ; it is our supposed light that holds back his hand.”
Man has the tendency to think
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The Resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we must impeach all those witnesses for lying. If Christ has not risen, we have no proof that the crucifixion of Jesus differed from that of the two thieves who suffered
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Martin Luther noted that the tree represented the everlasting love of God. He pointed out to his church that the evergreen’s color did not fade, just as the love of the Lord did not fade even in the most harshest of times. Martin Luther was the first person to put candles on a tree.To him the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2002
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Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.
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John Howard Yoder talks about the person of Christ and his lordship over all our lives when he writes: “Christians begin to deny their Lord when they admit that there are certain realms of life in which it would be inappropriate to bring Christ’s rule to bear. Of course, non-Christians will
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
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God’s name was so sacred to the Jews that it was pronounced only once a year by the high priest when giving the blessing on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (Lev. 23:27).
Michael G. Moriarty, The Perfect 10: The
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Contributed by Tim Hbc on Apr 9, 2008
Christian psychologist Dr Gary Collins writes that depression may be as mild as a “passing period of sadness that follows a personal disappointment" and in its severer forms can be overwhelming “feelings of despair, fear, exhaustion, immobilizing apathy,
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 22, 2024
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Baptism is identification with Christ. Baptism allows the believer in Christ to openly identify
with Christ who died, was buried and who rose again on his behalf. It is a public testimony to say I have
identified with Christ. I will live for Christ.
On October 15, 1517, an Augustinian monk nailed
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