Contributed by Dale Krueger on Feb 7, 2009
"I'D PLAY FOR NOTHING."
Ernie Banks, the great baseball player, once said that if the management only knew, he'd play baseball for nothing, he loved the game so much. His enormous salary did not compel him to endure the work to earn it, but the game itself was so enticing that the love of it bound
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Lutheran
Contributed by Alan Chandler on Mar 11, 2002
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Quote from FM Bishop Joe James “The freedom we have in Christ was made believable to an unbelieving world through the Love that was
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Methodist
Contributed by Tony Abram on Nov 5, 2006
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I try to start each morning by saying that Jesus Christ is Lord of my spirit, Lord of my mind and Lord of my
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 30, 2009
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Justification means "just-as-if-I-never-sinned."
The doctrine of justification is the foundation that supports all of the other
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 26, 2007
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Handicapped But Complete
About two years ago my wife Kay was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease, mainly characterized by inflammation of the lining of the joints. It can lead to long-term joint damage, resulting in chronic pain, loss of function and
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Baptist
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 27, 2003
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[True Meaning of Repentance, Citation: Lesslie Newbigin, Mission in Christ’s Way, pp. 2-3]
In Mission in Christ’s Way Lesslie Newbigin (d. 1996), long-time missionary to India, writes about the true meaning of repentance:
I remember once visiting a village in the Madras diocese. There was no road
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jun Tadena on Aug 25, 2006
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A Fisherman
During the first and second centuries, the symbol of Christianity was the fish. A present-day Christian decided that a fishhook would be the proper emblem for a soul-winner to use for winning people to Christ, so he had a little golden fishhook made to be worn on the lapel of his coat.
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 13, 2003
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Lane Adams once compared the process of spiritual growth to the strategy the Allies used in World War II to liberate islands in the South Pacific. First, they would “soften up” and island, weakening the resistance by shelling the enemy strongholds with bombs from offshore ships. Next, a small
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