Contributed by Troy Mason on Feb 6, 2002
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The Pharisees and teachers of the law competed with one another in strictness. They had atomized God’s law into 613 rules and bolstered these with 1,521 emendations (Yancey 132).
We can see the length to which this went from the following facts. For many generations the Scribal Law was never
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Schaeufele on May 13, 2010
Once a lady I knew told me about a bad experience she had in church. She had grown up in a very legalistic church and had been away from church for a long time. Under the conviction of the Holy Spirit she knew she needed to get back in church, and so she went back to the church she had grown up in.
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Methodist
Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jan 31, 2018
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Awesome achievement
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- Paul. (1 Corinthians 13:13)
Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians writes about love in chapter thirteen, but he finishes the chapter by mentioning two other powerful things,
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Salvation Army
Jesus was not just another rabbi among thousands. He was unique in so many ways, And here in Matthew’s gospel he reveals his ability to cut through the fog of legalism to give the essence of all law by boiling everything down to its most basic parts. He was able to take the Decalogue (10
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 22, 2010
In 1982 there was a letter to the editor which read, “Dear Editor, I would like to tell your readers how mad I was when I was forced to go out and pay $45 for an infant seat, and to top it off we couldn’t fit everybody in my pickup truck with that big bulky thing. On April 2, my wife was forced to
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 14, 2004
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Until a few years ago, there were no laws about child safety seats and automobile restraint systems. Tragically, many young children were not safely belted in their seats, and they died in car accidents. Today, though, laws prohibit children from riding in a car without a child seat facing the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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When Handel¡¦s great oratorio, The Messiah was published, one nobleman complimented the composer on the entertainment that he had given the town. My lord, said Handel, I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better.
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United Methodist
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PARENTING
There is no better opportunity for any adult to impact this world, than to develop strong Christian relationships with and through their children.
A survey was taken among parents. The point was to record the negative and positive statements they made to their children in the course
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"If we could make a great bonfire of the thousands of laws we have in this country, and start all over again with only the Golden Rule and the Ten
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad
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