Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 7, 2008
You ever wonder how you would spend the money if you won Power ball, which is at $123 million right now? Of course tithe-pay off mortgage-and the car-pay off parent’s debt-in laws, invest, go all out and order the
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If there is a lack of respect for the right to life and to a natural death, if human conception, gestation and birth are made artificial, if human embryos are sacrificed to research, the conscience of society ends up losing the concept of human ecology and, along with it, that of environmental
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Catholic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Beware of cut-and-dried theologies that reduce the ways of God to a manageable formula that keeps life safe. God often does the unexplainable just to keep us on our
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many who
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Be careful with hatredHatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause, not an individual. Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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President Abraham Lincoln called for a day of fasting and prayer.
His declaration for a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer begins with this thought.
And in so much as we know that, by his divine law, nations, like individuals, are subject to the punishments and chastisements in this
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 17, 2008
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During a trial, in a small Missouri town, the local prosecuting attorney called his first witness to the stand. The witness was a proper well-dressed elderly lady, the Grandmother type, well spoken, and poised. She was sworn in, asked if she would tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The story is told of two brothers who grew up on a farm. One went away to college, earned a law degree, and became a partner in a prominent law firm in the state capital. The other brother stayed on the family farm.
One day the lawyer came and visited his brother, the farmer. He asked, “Why don’t
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Contributed by Mark Kennicott on Mar 20, 2008
The Babylonian Talmud (tractate Baba Metsia, page 59b) tells a story of Rabbi Eliezer, one of the greatest of the rabbinical sages, and instructor of the great Rabbi Akiva. One day he was engaged in a fierce debate with a group of rabbis about a small matter of interpretation. When he could not
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 13, 2002
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Hypocritically, professing belief, performing rote rituals, calling oneself a member of a religion without attempting to follow holy prescriptions, participating in church … with a “social” country-club fervor – these can all be an evasion of holy duty, yet another form of idolatry, as practicing
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To illustrate the need christians have for one another, I use a story my sister in law told me. If your hand get amputated for any reason and is not reconnected with the body, it does not go on and strive to live on it’s own. No, it dies. The same thing happens to us
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 5, 2006
The Dead Sea is so salty that it contains no fish or plant life. What accounts for this unusual condition? The are absolutely no outlets! Great volumes of water pours into this area, but nothing flows out. Many inlets plus no outlets equal a Dead Sea.
This law of nature may also be applied
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Pharmaceutical companies are reaping a windfall for drugs for low income people under the new Medicare Part D drug program. The law exempts Part D drugs from “best price” rebates drug makers have been required to give to the state Medicaid programs since ‘91. U.S.
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