Contributed by Jim Luthy on Mar 15, 2002
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John Piper, in A Hunger for God, comments, "if the reward you aim at in fasting is the admiration of others, that is what you will get, and that will be all you get. In other words, the danger of hypocrisy is that it is so
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Mar 29, 2002
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A story is told of a thief who robbed John Wesley. While the thief walked away, Wesley shouted, "If you should someday come to your senses and know what you have done is wrong, turn to God for forgiveness through Jesus Christ." If we have the promise of Heaven, because we belong to Jesus, then
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 26, 2002
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(adapted from John Gillmartin) One of the vilest corruptions of the Civil War was the hiring of surrogate enlistees. The rich abused the blessings of wealth by hiring others to defend their nation for them. In many cases the surrogate had no choice; he was either in debt to the coward who hired
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John Bevere notes: That when Adam sinned in the Garden he not only became subject to decay and death all of creation itself suffered the consequence of Adams choice to sin.
i. “Consequently, not only Adam but all creation he was placed over immediately took the nature of death. Prior to Adam’s
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John Bevere states, “However (eternity), it’s not just a matter of ceaseless time, as it is not subject to time. Eternity transcends time. To speak of eternity in terms of merely perpetual duration is to miss the full picture. To capture the best view of eternity, we must look at God Himself. He is
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Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Jun 3, 2007
John Sculley was president of Pepsi Co during the 1970s and early 1980s
He is best known for his marketing skills, particularly in his introduction of ’the Pepsi Challenge’ at Pepsi Co,
He became CEO of Apple from 1983-1993.
What caused Pepsi Cola president John Sculley’s dramatic shift to become
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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John Wesley is quoted as saying,.In essentials unity,in non-essentials
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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THE ROPE HELD by ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
Sometimes on sunny days, when I could see my way and feel the pathway firm under my feet, I wondered--Would the rope hold if the worst happened?
A bent old man brought me that telegram which in war years hung like a suspended sword over the heart of every
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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John Maxwell tells the story of two shoe salesmen who were sent to a remote Island to sell shoes. After arriving, the first salesman called the home office back in Chicago and told them that he would be returning the next day because no one on the Island even wore shoes. The second salesman arrived
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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John Stott – “Peter would prepare the church, not simply to endure persecution, but to find in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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John Wesley and George Whitefield were two of the greatest preachers of the 18th Century. They became close friends while attending college at Oxford, but their theological differences eventually caused them to drift apart. In fact, there was quite a bit of animosity between their followers. One of
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John Wesley had been an Anglican clergyman for many years before he became a Christian. He had been a missionary in Georgia – and still was not a Christian.
His conversion experience happened on the evening of 24th May 1738. Wesley had gone very unwillingly to a non-conformist meeting in London
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 9, 2007
The English philosopher, John Locke, who set the tone for the American Revolution, in his Second Treatise, wrote "the ruling power ought to govern by declared and received laws, and not by extemporaneous dictates and undetermined Justice…"
Locke understood that laws worked best when people
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