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A mother who was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake... Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. “If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, ‘Let my brother have the first
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Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Nov 8, 2004
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A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. “If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, ‘Let my brother have the first pancake; I can
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 9, 2008
Among Christian adults 64% believe male/female cohabitation outside of marriage is acceptable.
55% of Christian adults believe a good person can earn his or her salvation. 44% believe Jesus Christ committed sins while on earth.
91% of students from evangelical churches do not believe in absolute
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 16, 2006
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Excellent Congregations: Excellent Protestant Congregations, by Paul Wilkes and published by Westminster John Knox Press identified the following 26 common traits among the "excellent" protestant congregations.
1. A vibrancy about living a Christian life...living on the creative and holy edge of
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Stories of pivotal prayers: Story from Tim Elmore “Pivotal Praying” (Page 1):
His life’s dream was to be a missionary, and it looked as though it was finally coming true. As the nervous young man sat in the mission’s agency’s office, he assured the interviewer that he and his new bride were
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 3, 2003
In an article entitled, “Mosaic and Ancient Near Eastern Laws,” (from the www.theology.edu/Eqypt3) we read that the Code of Hammurabbi and the Mosaic code “differ in their moral code.” “In the Hebrew laws, a greater value is generally placed on human life, and the Babylonian code has nothing in it
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Church Of God
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 21, 2007
Certainly no one in recent history has been more of an example of “Christ transforming Culture” than Martin Luther King, Jr. In his book Strength to Love, he wrote: “The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership
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