Contributed by Scott Jensen on Dec 18, 2007
C. H. Spurgeon claimed that 98% of the people he met, including criminals he visited in England’s prisons, told him that they believed the Bible to be true. But, the vast majority had never made a personal, life-changing commitment to Jesus Christ. For them, “believe” was not an active
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Contributed by C Jordan on May 18, 2008
QUOTE: “God chasers are after the fresh presence of the Almighty. Sometimes their pursuit raises the eyebrows of the existing church, but usually they lead the church from a place of dryness back into the place of His presence. It’s simply not enough to know about God. We have churches filled
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Contributed by Michael West on Oct 2, 2008
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The Lord of Hosts (the God of the Armies)
Approximately thirty different occasions the Lord unites His eternal nature to the human need of His servant. However, there is one name that stands apart from these and occurs around 290 times in the Bible. That's almost ten times the sum of all the
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Jim Heidebrecht on Oct 10, 2009
IN ORDER TO GIVE SOMETHING, YOU MUST LET GO!
VISUAL ILLUSTRATION: (I had a church member come to the front and pretended to give him my Bible, but wouldn’t let go of it, so I never really gave it to him. You have to let go of something in order
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Baptist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 29, 2011
THE DEFINITION OF GRACE
George Stansberry to a group of Bible college students: "If you leave this service today and see a needy person on the street and give him a dollar, that is unmerited favor. He did nothing to deserve it. But if you leave here and go to your car and find a man breaking
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Contributed by C Jordan on Nov 19, 2011
"How little of Scripture there is in modern sermons compared with the sermons of those masters of theology, the Puritan divines! Almost every sentence of theirs seems to cast side lights upon a text of Scripture; not only the one they are preaching about, but many others as well are set in a new
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Contributed by John Bright on Mar 10, 2025
Roman short whip, also called a flagrum. It was made of two or three leather (ox-hide) thongs or ropes connected to a handle. The leather thongs were knotted with several small pieces of metal, usually zinc and iron, attached at various intervals. Scourging would quickly remove the skin. According
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Contributed by Steve Heartsill on Oct 25, 2000
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A young teenage boy had just gotten his driver’s license. When he got home, he asked his father, who was a minister, if they could discuss the use of the car. His father took him into his study and said to the boy, "I’ll make a deal with you. If you bring up your grades, study your Bible a little,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 16, 2002
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TILL DEATH DO US PART
In his address to the 1997 graduation class at East Stroudsburg University, U.S. Senator Rick Santorum told a story seemingly unrelated to the usual commencement speeches about success and happiness. This is the story:
A Baptist preacher in South Carolina wanted nothing
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 28, 2007
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Sleepless
There once was a man named Randy Lo – his friends just called him Lo. Lo lived a hard life ignoring the many attempts of friends to introduce him to Jesus Christ. Eventually, though, Lo did become a Christian, giving his life over to our Lord Jesus. After some time, his walk with the Lord
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 2, 2008
Jonathan Edwards’ Conversion
One day when Jonathan Edwards was at home in his father’s house; some hindrances kept him from going to church one Sunday with the family. A couple of hours with nothing to do sent him listlessly into the library; the sight of a dull volume with no title on the leather
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Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 3, 2008
GOD IN REAL LIFE
There is this Christian comedian who was sharing his testimony. He came to a point in his life when he was drinking, doing some drugs, had some money issues, his relationship with his wife was falling apart, and he said that he had even beat his small child for crying. When all
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Gordan MacDonald states that all calls have similar commonalities and the following information is gleamed from his article “God’s Calling Plan” (Leadership, Vol. 24 page 25):
1. The call originates from the Godhead:
a. God called Abraham
b. God called Moses
c. God called Isaiah
d. God called
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I heard a story the other day about a guy who died and stood before the gates of heaven. An angel met him and said, “We have a new plan for getting into heaven. We’re now using a point system and you need 1,000 to enter.” The man told the angel that this would be no problem as he started rattling
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Have you ever noticed how novelists or movie directors make use of the way a person walks to highlight his or her character? Proud man walks erect, their heads held high. Beautiful women glide or float. Villains slouch, sneak, creep, or swagger. The need to describe different ways of walking has
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Contributed by Howard Parnell on Sep 26, 2002
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The story is told of a little girl whose parents never went to church. However, they insisted upon her
attendance and what is more is that she had to be able to recite the preacher’s text for the day. One morning she rushed home excited: "Oh mama, my name is in the Bible." "That’s not likely,"
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