Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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There is nothing more poignant than considering the end of things. Whenever we experience the end of things it helps us consider what is really important. I was struck this week by John Piper’s journal entry:
He recounted as he sat beside the bed of his father keeping a vigil. He monitored his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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One of the things I love to do most is to tell people about how I met the risen Lord. I was a senior in high school. I was just about to graduate. And my English teacher gave us one final assignment. He put a bowl on the table filled with slips of paper. He said, "Each slip of paper has a value on
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 25, 2007
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Nietzsche said “A man can undergo torture if he knows the way of life,” but Christian Reger said, "here at Dachu, I learned something far greater. I learned to know the who of my life. He was enough to sustain me then, and is enough to sustain me still.”
Christian Reger was a minister with the
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DIVISION IN THE CHURCH
We might sum up the divisions in this church this way according to Parsons:
i. "I follow Paul" -- This group may have taken the attitude that Paul started this church and he will always be the leader. These are the traditionalists.
1. They always live in the past and never
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Contributed by Paul Dietz on Sep 20, 2008
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Spiritual Manna
How many can remember the story of the children of Israel gathering Manna every morning accept on the Sabbath to find the sustenance needed to make their spiritual journey from Egypt to the Land of Promise?
We are told that they first of all began to murmur among themselves about
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Contributed by Fred Sigle on Jun 7, 2007
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In June 1839, a Spanish schooner left the shore of Havana, Cuba and set SAIL for Porta Prince, another part of the ISLAND. The CARGO in the BOWELS of La Amistad (the name of the BOAT, which ironically means, The Friendship) was 53 Africans KIDNAPPED from the Mendi village of West Africa and
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Text: 2 Chronicles 25:7, KJV: But there came a man of God (ID unknown) to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
2 Chron. 25:9: And Amaziah said to the man of God (identity unknown), But what shall we
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After leaving Egypt, Abram and Lot, his nephew, decided to separate from each other so that there would be enough to sustain each respective household. Genesis 13 tells the story, where, from Bethel, Lot went to the south and east, towards Sodom. Abram went south and west, settling near Hebron.
At
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Though it’s a frequently used word in the English language, it’s one of the least talked about. It’s used as an exclamation, an interjection, and a noun. What word is it? Hell.
Pollsters tell us that most people who use the word don’t believe in the existence of Hell. While 90 percent of Americans
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