Contributed by Andrew Chan on Apr 28, 2006
“Will The Da Vinci Code drive millions away from the historic Christian faith?” asks Phil Cooke, a media expert. “Doubtful,” he says. “The Barna Research Group reported that less than one-tenth of 1% of the people who watched ‘The Passion of the Christ’ actually accepted Christ as a result of
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 25, 2006
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I heard about a 4 year old staying with his Grandma and he said, "Grandma, I want `unch’." She said, "You want what?" "I want `unch’." She said, "You mean, you want lunch!" "Yes, I want `unch’." Grandma said, "I’m not gong to give it to you until you say it correctly. Now, what do you want?" "I
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Contributed by Kent Kessler on Dec 9, 2006
G. Campbell Morgan speaks of it like this, “Luke thus gives us a graphic suggestive picture of the time and conditions, as he introduces His forerunner. The king is there, degenerate. The Temple is there, desecrated. The priesthood is there, degraded. The people are there, debased. Nevertheless,
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Methodist
Contributed by Michael Trask on Jan 18, 2007
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Have you ever noticed that good feeling that you get when you give of yourself? Perhaps you gave time to help someone with a flat tire on the side of the road, or perhaps you helped a lost child be reunited with his mother in a crowd, or maybe when the clerk at the store gave you too much
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Lutheran
Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
OUR AMAZING FIVE SENSES
Our five senses give us some astonishing capabilities. We can see a candle’s flame 30 miles away on a dark, clear night, and smell a single drop of perfume diffused in a three-room apartment. We can taste .04 ounce of table salt in 530 quarts of water. Our sense of touch
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Contributed by Tim White on Apr 15, 2013
DON'T BE IMPATIENT
When I was a teen-ager, my mom finally gave in to my dad. After mom and dad bought our Christmas, dad talked mom into allowing us to open the gifts days, sometimes weeks early. He couldn’t wait until we opened our gifts. The problem is that it took a lot of the joy out of
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Contributed by Spencer Miller on Jun 9, 2013
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The great English preacher Charles Spurgeon once said, "The gospel is preached in the ears of all men; it only comes with power to some. The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher otherwise men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher’s
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Someone took the time to do the research for us. If we live to 75…
We will spend 3 years in school (24 hours a day)
7 years eating
14 years working
5 years driving/riding in airplane
5 years talking
1 year recovering from sickness
24 years sleeping
15 years amusing ourselves
Now what if you spent
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Last Tuesday night on Prime Time they showed the new Christ, De Jesus from Puerto Rico. He claims to be the better Christ and declares there is no sin, no Satan, and no one will go to hell. They interviewed several church members as to what they thought about their Christ. And they believe in him
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A.W. Tozer’s Definition of a Christian
A Real Christian:
• He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen,
• Talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see,
• Expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another,
• Empties himself in order to be full,
• Admits he is wrong so he can be
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 23, 2007
The ability to read and to study God’s Word for yourself, gives you a great step up in your battle with temptations and trails. The Puritans thought reading was so important that in 1647 they passed the “Old Deluder Satan Act”, the first law in the United States requiring public education be
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Baptist
"You can’t judge the spirituality of a Christian on the basis of his prayers, since praying is often done for its effect on the listeners. Nor can you measure a person’s spiritual status by the loudness of his "AMENs" and "hallelujahs." The generosity of one’s giving is not an infallible test for
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Independent/Bible
Glory can be defined. In my research I discovered that it means a desirable brightness that is very rare!
a. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia states this about Glory - FROM THE HEBREW WORD KĀBHŌDH.
i. The fundamental idea of this root seems to be “weight,” “heaviness,”
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
George Matheson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1842. As a child he had only partial vision, and his sight became progressively worse, until it resulted in blindness by the time he was eighteen. Despite his handicap, he was a brilliant student and graduated from the University of Glasgow and
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Contributed by Shane Hargrave on Dec 20, 2007
This 80 year old woman was arrested for shop lifting.
When she went before the judge in Florida he asked her, "What did you steal?"
She replied, "A can of peaches."
The judge then asked her why she had stolen the can of peaches
And she replied that she was hungry.
The judge then asked her how
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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