If we do not trust God enough to leave the confines of ordinary existence and be born again of the Spirit, then we will not grow or develop spiritually and will never be
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Southern Baptist Convention churches have a total membership of 16,270,315 in the U.S., more than 5% of the nation’s
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Feb 20, 2008
“Access is not mere liberty of approach; it is ’introduction.’ Christ did not die simply to open the way of access to God, but actually to introduce us into his presence
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 17, 2008
I love what Richard Foster says in his book Streams of Living Water about the prayer-filled life. It is “the steady
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Church Of God
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 10, 2001
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THEIR OWN MORAL VIEWS
John Leo in U.S. News quoted a professor Robert Simon of Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. as reporting that "10 to 20% of his students... acknowledged the Holocaust but couldn’t bring themselves to say that killing millions of people was wrong.... one student told Simon, ’Of
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Jul 29, 2002
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I’ve told you about the worship conference coming in September, and the one part that I am really excited about is a fellow named Andy Hunter. Andy comes out of the Rave scene in England. He is still a D.J. at secular raves, but he also leads worship using his turn tables. He calls it “worship
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Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Oct 26, 2002
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The lady must have been desperate. She decided to write a letter to Dear Abby. Her letter reads: Dear Abby, I am 44 and would like to meet a man my age with no bad habits. She signed her name, “Rose.” Abby replies: “Dear Rose: So would I.” There’s more truth to Abby’s answer than her typical
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Lutheran
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Dec 12, 2002
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[2002 Poll on Uniqueness of Christianity, Citation: "Faith in America," U.S. News & World Report (5-6-02), p. 42; source: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/features/religion_survey.htm]
PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly/U.S. News & World Report poll conducted March 26–April 4, 2002
In a spring
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2003
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MEASURING GOODNESS
Goodness can only be measured by God. God is the standard of goodness. If we compare ourselves to others we’re using the wrong measurement. If we determine goodness by what other people call good, we’re using the wrong standard.
It’s like the little boy who came to his mother
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Nov 26, 2003
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ILLUSTRATION… Governor John Connally Quote
I was reading recently of events that happened back in 1963 when John F Kennedy was tragically gunned down. It was the Texas Governor of the time John Connally who was wounded in the gun attack. He and his wife Nellie were in the motorcade that day. In
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Dec 27, 2003
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Near Cripple Creek, Colorado, gold and tellurium occur mixed as tellurite ore. The refining methods of the early mining camps could not separate the two elements, so the ore was thrown into a scrap heap.
One day a miner mistook a lump of ore for coal and tossed it into his stove. Later, while
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Contributed by Michael Tkachuk on Jan 20, 2005
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Philip Yancey, writing in Christianity Today, offers these three reasons why this topic of heaven is being neglected.
1. “Affluence has given us in this life what former generations longed for in anticipation of heaven.
2. A creeping paganism invites us to accept death as the culmination of life
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Catholic
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