Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Sep 28, 2002
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Strange for us to think of idolatry as being something in the modern world but consider this:
• There are actually people who worship crawling creatures: In a museum in Egypt there is a monument to the scarob beetle.
• The philistines actually worshiped flies. Hindus today won’t swat a fly
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Contributed by Rex S. Wignall on Oct 25, 2002
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Sometimes, we are tempted to think we are the only ones who struggle with this burden. Ellsworth Kalas tells the discovery that Thomas Wolfe the fine American writer made about loneliness:
Wolfe was a lonely man. He once thought that loneliness was something suffered especially, perhaps even
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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I think of David Livingstone, the pioneer missionary to Africa, who walked over 29,000 miles. His wife died early in their ministry and he faced stiff opposition from his Scottish brethern. He ministered half blind. His kind of perseverance spurs me on. As I run, I remember the words in his diary:
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jeffrey Sackett on Jan 24, 2003
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think of how often in scripture it is the woman who is the vehicle for ministry.
Who prompted Jesus to perform His first miracle? A Woman!
Who ministered to Christ during His public ministry? The women!
Who anointed the body of Jesus? The women!
Who stayed with Jesus throughout his trial and
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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I think of David Livingstone, the pioneer missionary to Africa, who walked over 29,000 miles. His wife died early in their ministry and he faced stiff opposition from his Scottish brethren. He ministered half blind. His kind of perseverance spurs me on. As I walk, I remember the words in his diary:
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jan 26, 2009
People often think that works they do that they think are righteous are going to outweigh any faults they do?
Imagine a motorist driving down a city street and deliberately driving through a red light. He is pulled over by a policeman who asks to see his driver’s license. Immediately the driver
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting system, through which God speaks to us
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered,
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