Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jul 28, 2009
ACTIVE DISCIPLESHIP
Relation to Christ activates and empowers the whole of life when humans choose to act. Without action, nothing happens. It is kind of like getting into a car and just sitting there without turning the ignition and putting the car into gear and pushing on the accelerator and
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
CRISIS OF FAITH: DECIDE WHAT YOU BELIEVE
Dr. Henry Blackaby, co-author of the book Experiencing God, describes David’s crisis this way: "David was a faithful servant of the Lord’s. David refused to rely on human wisdom for guidance. He asked for God’s direction. Was this a crisis of belief
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The Catechism teaches that “Sacred Scripture begins with the creation of man and woman in the image and likeness of God and concludes with a vision of ‘the wedding feast of the Lamb.’” (1602) “God Himself is the author of marriage. . .The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man
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THE SIN OF DOING NOTHING
I was hungry and you formed a humanities club and discussed my hunger.
I was imprisoned and you crept off quietly to your chapel and prayed for my release.
I was naked and in your mind you debated the morality of my appearance.
I was sick and you knelt and thanked God
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Independent/Bible
FREE TO BE YOUR SLAVE
Elisabeth Elliot wrote a beautiful prayer, in "A Lamp for My Feet":
"Lord, break the chains that hold me to myself; free me to be Your happy slave – that is, to be the happy foot washer of anyone today who needs his feet washed, his supper cooked, his faults overlooked, his
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 23, 2008
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A Christian who will not relinquish a hateful, resentful attitude toward someone who has wronged him is a person who knows neither the true glory of his redeemed humanity nor the true glory of God’s gracious divinity An unforgiving Christian is a living contradiction of His new nature in Christ. It
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Jesus willingly put aside His divine glory and became the lowest of humans, a poor carpenter from a backwater town in Galilee. He suffered and because he obediently suffered the death of a slave, he was crowned with glory and honor. The idea was to bring many of God’s children to the same glory,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Several years ago C.S. Lewis wrote a book entitled “The Screwtape Letters. Screwtape was a Master Demon who wrote a series of letters to his nephew Wormwood, who was a Demon in training.
I came something this week that someone who had obviously read Lewis’ book had written. It is another letter.
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A man and a woman in love long for a union, the natural result of which is offspring that are neither entirely the man’s, nor the woman’s, but bear the unmistakable marks of both. That union, Scripture boldly declares, has a spiritual parallel (Ephesians 5:31-32). Though this initially shocks our
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Mar 10, 2001
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I recently saw the film of the American classic ’Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and realised afresh that slavery is such a terrible institution, a blot on the human race. It has been a source of puzzlement why Paul did not condemn it outright, for here was his opportunity to do so. And yet he remained
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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THE MOST IMPORTANT OBLIGATION
As important as your obligation as a doctor, a lawyer or a business leader may be, your human connections with your spouse, your children and your friends are the most important investment you will ever make. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 18, 2002
Paul Galloway, writing for the Chicago Tribune in the fall of 1992, described a “striking linguistic comparison between William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Chicago playwright David Mamet’s Glengary Glen Ross, noting that while both treat human greed and ambition, they are exactly 232
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