PRAYING IN AGREEMENT
Our individual prayers have great power. But there is even more power when we come together as a church and pray in agreement. Now, we know that in human terms total agreement is impossible. No two people can be in complete agreement … much less a whole congregation of
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Jan 6, 2013
LEE DYE ON NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
Lee Dye writes, “It’s that time of year again when we resolve to get off our duffs and run around the block more often, maybe even cut back on tall of those things which we know we aren’t supposed to eat, or drink or smoke. Ah yes, New Year’s Resolutions which for
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Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Dec 30, 2021
Have you ever wondered why sin has such an appeal, stranglehold and blindness quality to it?
Trinity a character, heroine and Neo’s sidekick from the Matrix saga but in Matrix 4 she spends most of the movie stuck in the Matrix living as Tiffany, Neo is finally able to remind Trinity of who she
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Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to try and retrieve the donkey.
So, he invited all his
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jul 5, 2001
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[Lessons from a Tavern, Citation: Charles Swindoll, Leadership, Vol. 4, no. 1.]
An old Marine Corps buddy of mine, to my pleasant surprise, came to know Christ after he was discharged.
I say surprise because he cursed loudly, fought hard, chased women, drank heavily, loved war and weapons, and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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A seminary professor (Fred Craddock) was vacationing with his wife in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. One morning, they were eating breakfast at a little restaurant, hoping to enjoy a quiet meal. While they were waiting for their food, they noticed a distinguished looking, white-haired man moving from table
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Today I want to conclude by sort of turning the tables and say that now we’ve got this great stuff of how we can be set free for ourselves, how can we now turn around and help other people find freedom through Christ.
I’m particularly thinking about this because of a story from a Major who is part
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Contributed by Tommy Ellis on Jun 2, 2002
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If you give a street drunk a bottle of expensive alcohol, he will appreciate it the same as he would a cheap bottle of booze. Why? He does not know what he has. Likewise, whoever eats and drinks the Lord’s Supper
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Jeff Simms on May 28, 2003
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“True forgivers do not pretend they don’t suffer. They do not
pretend the wrong does not matter much. The 1st stage of
healing is release. You will know that forgiveness has begun
when you
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Contributed by Paul Decker on May 19, 2004
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Soon after Paul and Marilyn were married, Paul stopped wearing his wedding band.
"Why don’t you ever wear your ring?" Marilyn asked.
"It cuts off my circulation,"
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 24, 2004
At the height of her fame as the other woman in the Ivana and Donald Trump breakup, Marla Maples spoke of her religious roots. Why, I’ll never know. She told interviewers that she believed in the Bible, then added the
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Contributed by Dennis Lawrence on Nov 16, 2005
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and essayist, declared, “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too later.” This is too true. May you and I be known as good doers and
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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A little boy was saying his bedtime prayers with his mother:
"Lord, bless Mommy and Daddy, and God, GIVE ME A NEW BICYCLE!!!"
Mom: "God’s not deaf, son.
Boy: "I know, Mom, but Grandma’s in
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A.W. Tozer said, "We are called to an everlasting preoccupation with God." God is worthy of our worship. One of the ways that you can be reasonably assured of your salvation is your desire to worship. Knowing the true God, and
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Oct 3, 2006
J. Calvin said in a sermon on Ephesians May 1558
“Although we cannot conceive either by argument or reason how God has elected us before the foundation of the world yet we know it by His declaring it to us; and experience itself
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