Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 7, 2007
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Sin is a blasting presence, and every fine power shrinks and withers in the destructive heat. Every spiritual delicacy succumbs to its malignant touch...
Sin impairs the sight, and works toward blindness.
Sin benumbs the hearing and tends to make men deaf.
Sin perverts the taste, causing men to
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
The way of sanctification is the way of spiritual refreshment from the presence of the Lord. Picture your house when you go away for an extended vacation. You shut up the house and close all the blinds. While you’re gone the air becomes stale and musty. When you return the first thing you do is
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Contributed by Daniel Devilder on Oct 24, 2006
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As Dallas Willard observes: “In fasting, we learn how to suffer happily as we feast on God. [Fasters . . .] will have a constant sense of their
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Quote: The earliest recorded philosophy of time was expounded by Ptahhotep, who lived c. 2650–2600 BCE said: "Do not lessen the time of following desire, for
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Be still, and in the quiet moments, listen to the voice of your heavenly Father. His words can renew your spirit. No
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Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 19, 2009
John MacArthur: "Godly, Biblical church growth results from every member of the body fully using his spiritual gift, in submission to the Holy
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Baptist
Contributed by Gary Kelly on Nov 16, 2011
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Unity is a heart condition of a regenerated believer that is empowered by the Holy Spirit and bears the fruit of kindness, compassion, peace-making, forgiveness, humbling
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Apostolic
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Aug 5, 2003
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"No local congregation will be what it should be, what Jesus prayed that it would be, what the Holy Spirit gifted it and empowered it to be,
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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It seems odd that certain who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he
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If we do not trust God enough to leave the confines of ordinary existence and be born again of the Spirit, then we will not grow or develop spiritually and will never be
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Episcopal/Anglican