Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 11, 2011
AFTER THE DECISION
John Wesley, talking of the conversion process, said that the new believer will often rest for days or months in the peace which follows the initial decision, but after a while they begin to become aware of "the ground of their heart, which God before would not disclose unto
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Contributed by Richard Francis on Jan 31, 2009
In the Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning puts it like this “In Christ Jesus freedom from fear empowers us to let go of the desire to appear good, so that we can move freely in the mystery of who we really are. Preoccupation with projecting the “nice guy” image, impressing newcomers with our
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Contributed by Anne Benefield on May 28, 2008
Earlier this week, I was talking to our music director, Jim Turk, about this sermon. I told him that I was going to challenge you to live out your faith. I told him a story about myself that makes me very self-conscious. It is a story I had never told anyone else. I explained to Jim that it was
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 2, 2023
In Paul's day, every city in Greece built a public place called the Bema, or “judgment seat”. It was from this raised platform, usually in the center of town, that official announcements were made, judgments rendered and commendations handed out. All public proclamations came from this Bema
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Aug 13, 2008
YOU CALL THIS A GAS STATION!
One day a lady pulled into a self serve gas station to fill up her car.
She got out of her car, hurried over to the pump, lifted the nozzle to her gas tank, and tried to pump the gas.
Nothing happened.
Belatedly she realized that this was one of those gas stations
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A lot of Christians have a tendency to think that --- even though it was God’s Grace and Mercy that saved us --- now that we are saved, it’s all up to us to get on with the business of struggling to “live the Christian life” on our own power. We rev up our own dedication, will power, grit, and
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Aug 2, 2023
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Teammates of the late Willie Stargell called him "Pops" because of his leadership both on and off the baseball field. In 1979, when Stargell led the Pittsburgh Pirates to their second World Series title, the team was nicknamed "The Family" because of their close relationship and
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Contributed by Brad Bailey on Aug 4, 2004
“How easy it is to define authentic spirituality according to my particular experience and expression of it. And when I do I end up with a very different god from the one revealed in Christ, a god whose transcendent objectivity has been pared down to the contours of my subjectivity, a god,
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on May 1, 2009
“Christian preaching begins only when faith in the message has reached such a pitch that the man or the community proclaiming it becomes part of the message proclaimed…” says James S. Stewart in his work, A Faith To Proclaim “…To be thus taken command of, so that our testimony, when we go out to
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 15, 2003
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When Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual politically correct generalities. But, what they heard instead was a prayer delivered with grace yet full of truth. "Heavenly Father we ask Your forgiveness. We know Your Word says, ’Woe on
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Contributed by Vanita George on Apr 20, 2005
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I’d like to finish by reading this little excerpt I picked from TD Jakes’ book called “God’s Leading Ladies” and it goes as below:-
To become a leading lady, you must raise the curtain and step forward. You must extend yourself beyond the self-imposed limits, external pressures, and patriarchal
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