Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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PETER MARSHALL’S CALLING
In her book, A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall tells how her late preacher-husband felt a sense of destiny a sense of call in his life.
One dark night, Peter, then a young man, decided to take a shortcut across the Scottish moors. He knew there was a deep deserted
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Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
Victor Frankel once said, “The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. Logotherapy deviates from psychoanalysis insofar as it considers a man a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling
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Charismatic
If God has promised something to you through His Word, it will come to pass. Dr. John Walvoord served as president at Dallas Seminary for 34 years and was known as an authority on the area of Bible prophecy. He calculated after an exhaustive study of the Scriptures that half of the prophecies of
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Baptist
Contributed by Larry Wilson on Oct 7, 2011
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DEACONS AND LIGHTS
In our church, we have someone that does the maintenance and replaces light bulbs and things like that. They do not want their pastor to do this for two good reasons:
1) I know very little about maintenance, and my church knows that I know very little.
2) They don't want the
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Dec 27, 2022
The Stage of Life
The world is as a stage,
Humans merely play their part.
They have an appointed entrance
and a time they shall depart.
In life, a person fulfills roles
in many scenes along the way,
parts set by the great Director,
who has written and produced the play.
Questions of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
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WHAT MY PARENTS TAUGHT ME
Parents are teachers of faith and morality. What God is to the world, parents are to their children. Unfortunately, some parents become so focused on the element of friendship or their own convenience, comfort, self-fulfillment, happiness, or love life that they forget
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Contributed by John Tung on Mar 28, 2007
The importance of the personal over the legal is seen in the fact that God wants us to be personally involved with our children, and not just legally fulfill our obligations to them. When our kids were younger, I remember Elizabeth telling me once before that when I am home I am home in body, but
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 15, 2008
"But Jewish tradition also sees Esav in another light. The famous Talmudic sage, Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel, was known for the great care he took in fulfilling the Mitzvah of honoring one’s parents. Yet he stated: ’I served my father faithfully all my life, yet I did not even reach the smallest level
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Independent/Bible
The fall of Jerusalem looked like a triumph of the pagan gods over the true God of Israel…but in actuality it was actually a victory for the Lord! He kept His covenant with Israel and He fulfilled His promises. In fact, the same God who raised up the Babylonians to defeat Judah {sic. in
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Baptist
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The Old Testament (which was finished over 400 years before the birth of Jesus) contains at least 450 prophecies about the birth, life, and death of the Messiah.
Peter Stoner (a professor of Science at Westmont College) decided to calculate the probability that one person could fulfill just EIGHT
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Christian/Church Of Christ
About 20 years back, I had a dream of going to India as a missionary. I’d visited there several times and felt a calling to work with the South India Church of Christ Mission. I was especially close to a young preacher named Ragu. But that vision died when Susan and I got our request for Visa’s
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Dec 11, 2002
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Dr. Peter Stoner, Professor Emeritus of Science at Westmon College, wrote a book entitled Science Speaks, in which he wrote about the law of "compound probability" in reference to just 8 of these prophecies about Jesus coming true. He said that the odds of one man accidently fulfilling 8 of these
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Christian Church
Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 20, 2009
In the book, “Men of Integrity” Mark Moring shared this story about his son, Peter.
He said, “It was late, and my young sons, Peter and Paul, had been in bed for at least an hour. My wife and I had just returned from our Bible study group, and I snuck into the boys’ room to say good night.
"Dad,
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 10, 2011
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THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL
John Wesley: "There is no [conflict] at all between the law and the gospel; that there is no need for the law to pass away, in order to the establishing of the gospel. Indeed neither of them supersedes the other, but they agree perfectly well together. Yea, the very same
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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In her book, ...A Man Called Peter, ...Catherine Marshall ...tells how her late preacher-husband ...felt a sense of destiny ... a sense of call ...in his life. (Pause)
One dark night, ...Peter, ...then a young man, ...decided to take a Shortcut ...across the Scottish moors.
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 25, 2001
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Jerome, the Church historian, relates of the Apostle John that, when he became old he used to go among the churches and assemblies, everywhere repeating the words, “Little children, love one another.” His disciples, wearied by the constant repetition, asked him why he always said this. “Because,”
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