Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 25, 2008
I remember seeing a carton showing a scholarly man sitting on top of a great pile of books, looking at himself in a mirror, and above his head a question mark. He has mastered every subject of learning, but couldn’t answer the problem of himself! The infection of sin has warped human nature so
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2009
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JESUS’ WORDS
There is a hopefulness in life as we hear and become empowered by Jesus’ words.
A Sunday School teacher illustrated this concept of hopefulness in life by drawing on the blackboard two pathways. In the middle of one she placed a large rock, covering the entire path. At the end of
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COMMITMENT VS. SURRENDER
In The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority there is an account of a conversation between the late Adrian Rogers and Rev Josef Tson, the Romanian pastor, author, and president of the Romanian Missionary Society who survived years of persecution and exile under cruel
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Simon tells the story of Judson Cornwall, an American Pentecostal preacher who, after the war, was invited to speak at a renewal conference in Germany.
But Cornwall had a deep seated grudge against the Germans and simply threw the invitation into the bin.
Remarkably, when his wife emptied the
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Anglican
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jun 16, 2001
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C S Lewis, in his book "The Screwtape Letters", imagined that he could overhear what a chief tempter in Hell was saying: "It will be an ill day for us," the tempter says, "if what most humans mean by ’Religion’ ever vanished from the Earth. It can still send us the truly delicious sins. The fine
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2001
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IRONY AT THE CROSS
Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here alone that he perceives that he is no longer separated from God. Nowehere else does the inviolable holiness of God, the impossibility of overlooking the guilt of man stand out
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Contributed by John Harvey on Jul 18, 2004
What happens if your physical heart doesn’t work? I have a friend named Van who was in a car wreck and his heart was literally torn in two. To save his life the paramedics had to clamp off the blood supply to his brain and his spinal column. After months in the hospital, his brain was fine, but
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Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Oct 17, 2004
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“In the Holy Spirit we find a single-minded focus on Jesus Christ. His work is the work of Jesus Christ. In the BibIe there is no ambiguity about this. Anywhere that the Holy Spirit is at work, Jesus will be made real both in word, deed, and in actual presence. Thus, missions and evangelism
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Enablement for Uncommon Things
Peter F. Drucker: No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and
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Contributed by Pat Cook on May 16, 2005
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The Wesleyan Bible Commentary puts it this way: “The eternal one, caught in a moment of time. The Omnipresence corralled in a cave manger. The Omnipotent cradled in a helpless infant who could not even raise His head from the straw. The Omniscience confined in a baby who would not say a word. The
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Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
Victor Frankel once said, “The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. Logotherapy deviates from psychoanalysis insofar as it considers a man a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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National Religious Broadcasters recently passed a resolution pledging the association’s family to consider that biblical truth is no longer part of the nation’s foundation and that “evil in high places” wants to establish a foundation based on humanism and situational ethics. It calls NRB members
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
Origins On The Mind: A recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds 75% of Americans have thought at least a moderate amount about human origins, and 66% say it matters to them which theory is correct. Americans are more likely to endorse a purely creationist view than an evolutionary one. The majority
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
INFOLUST Consumers are lusting after detailed information on where to get the best of the best, the cheapest of the cheapest, the first of the first, the healthiest of the healthiest, the coolest of the coolest, or on how to become the smartest of the smartest. The driving force behind INFOLUST is
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 12, 2007
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Dr. Michael. Denton, senior research fellow in human molecular genetics at the university of Otago in New Zealand has concluded, “ All the evidence available in the biological sciences supports the core proposition…. That the cosmos is a specially designed whole with life and mankind as its
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 14, 2007
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Dr. Michael. Denton, senior research fellow in human molecular genetics at the university of Otago in New Zealand has concluded, “ All the evidence available in the biological sciences supports the core proposition…. That the cosmos is a specially designed whole with life and mankind as its
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