Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Mar 1, 2010
DEMOLISH THE OLD, BUILD SOMETHING NEW
I like watching those video clips of buildings being demolished with dynamite. The people that do that spend hours planning and setting the dynamite in place and wiring everything, so that everything will just kind of fall in on itself, without affecting
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The primary objective, indeed the only end of the liberation from slavery, is worship, "which can only take place according to God’s measure and therefore eludes the rules of the game of political compromise" suggested by Pharaoh. "Israel departs, not in order to be a people like all
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Catholic
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Mar 4, 2011
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THE NEW BIRTH DAY
The day we come to Christ is our “New Birth” Day!
Spurgeon: "It was the beginning of life to me when I saw Jesus dying in my place."
The day of our salvation eclipses our birthdays, our graduations, our
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Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 19, 2011
IDENTITY CRISIS
Theorist Erik Erikson coined the term "identity crisis" and believed that it was one of the most important conflicts people face in development. According to Erikson, an identity crisis is a time of intensive analysis and exploration of different ways of looking at oneself. Those
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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My first pastoral appointment was the Marissa and Zion United Methodist Charge in St. Clair County, Illinois, about forty miles southeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Zion had only three members and no electricity or running water. In past decades light had been provided in the sanctuary by kerosene,
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Methodist
Contributed by Jerry Mckee on Dec 12, 2007
Let’s find the world of dangerous wonder. It’s a real place, you know. It is the place where children and grownups can find God, located just beyond where the sidewalk ends. The directions just might be found in your church, your Bible, or even a friendship. Dull people and dream stealers are not
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 27, 2010
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SPIRITUAL ATHEIST?
Let’s think about this. Good equals Godly? Good equals spiritual? How exactly does being good and being spiritual parallel?
I give a man on the street a warm meal and a place to stay. That’s a good thing. How is giving a man a warm meal and a place to stay a spiritual
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Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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Follow the example of Deanna Shrodes, the choir director of the North Carroll Assembly of God in Manchester, MD who takes her choir to bars and prisons. Why?
According to Deanna, they go to places "where we were guaranteed to find hurting people." They are taking their message of hope
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Contributed by Tom Doubt on Jul 14, 2003
There was a statue of Jesus, arms extended, at the cross-roads in the French countryside [Knight’s Treasury of 2000 Illustrations, p 440]. A fierce battle occurred there during WWI. The hands of the statue were blown away in the fighting. Afterwards, someone placed a plaque on the pedestal:
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Contributed by Chad Bolfa on Jan 12, 2008
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Warren Wiersbe said this, “The Church is always one generation short of extinction, If our generation fails to guard the truth and entrust it to our children, then that will be the end! When you think of the saints and martyrs who suffered and died so that we might have
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Faith is not an opinion, but a certitude. The substance of things hoped for, says the Apostle not the phantasies of empty conjecture. You hear the substance. You may not dispute on the faith as you please; you may not wander here and there through the wastes of opinion, the byways of error. By
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 12, 2010
Harry Ironside stated that salvation was like Noah inviting a pagan in his day to place his trust in God’s Word and come in to the ark. Some view salvation like Noah offering to put a peg on the outside of the ark. “If you just hang on through the storm, you’ll be saved.”
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Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
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.B. Simpson, the founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, told of a
man who advertised for a coachman. Among those who came were two who seemed
to him to be particularly bright. He took them aside and asked them how near
they could drive to the edge of a precipice without falling
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Nov 29, 2001
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Dr. George Sweeting tells a story about the tragedy of addictions. One day he watched several blocks of ice floating down a river at Niagara Falls. Curiously, several birds floated above water looking for fish. One sea gull spotted a fish frozen in one of the blocks of ice that was hurling speedily
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Contributed by Andrew Hamilton on Oct 26, 2002
I was talking to a pastor friend on the phone recently and he said listen to this – ‘who is this denomination? See if you can guess.
I am a newly formed denomination that has been in existence for a few decades. We came out of the mainstream church because we didn’t believe there was enough
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Christian Missionary Alliance