Contributed by Kent Kessler on Dec 9, 2006
G. Campbell Morgan speaks of it like this, “Luke thus gives us a graphic suggestive picture of the time and conditions, as he introduces His forerunner. The king is there, degenerate. The Temple is there, desecrated. The priesthood is there, degraded. The people are there, debased. Nevertheless,
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Methodist
Contributed by Terry Kemp on Dec 23, 2006
From August 1975 thru July 1988 our family lived in Orange County, Indiana. Once and soon again to be the gambling center of the Hoosier state, Orange County was then stuck in a malaise of poverty. This was evidenced to many visitors by our waste collection service. Rather than setting trash
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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It’s interesting that there has been such an increase of shows on television that involve the court room. These shows really are all about the judge. He or she is the focus of the program. There is an entire station now devoted to Court TV. It all started with the “people’s Court” and Judge
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Teen Girls: Despite MySpace, chatting on IM or surfing iTunes, 12- to-14-year-old girls are still most deeply motivated by TV. 65% say they’re influenced by a TV show or network, and are more likely to multi-task. More than half report regularly instant-messaging; about two-thirds read and write
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Contributed by James Chandler on Apr 5, 2007
I have been to the eye doctor many times. Sometimes they would dilate my eyes and everything would get so blurry and out of focus. It would be hours before I could really get my focus back and see clearly.
Sometimes things were blurry not because my eyes were dilated but because my eyesight
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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The great British Baptist pastor Alexander McClaren reminds us, “Only he who can say, ‘The Lord is the strength of my life,’ can say, ‘Of whom shall I be afraid?’” [--Alexander McClaren, Christian Reader, Vol. 32, no. 3. Thomas a Kempis, the 14th century German Catholic monk, wrote in The
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Denomination:
Methodist
The great British Baptist pastor Alexander McClaren reminds us, “Only he who can say, ‘The Lord is the strength of my life,’ can say, ‘Of whom shall I be afraid?’” [--Alexander McClaren, Christian Reader, Vol. 32, no. 3. Thomas a Kempis, the 14th century German Catholic monk, wrote in The
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Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Clint Meade on Jun 3, 2007
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A bar of steel is worth just a few dollars.
When it is forged into a set of wrenches, it is worth approximately $100.
If that same bar of steel is made into many needles, it can be worth several hundred dollars.
If it is made into fine surgical instruments, it is worth thousands of dollars.
If
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 15, 2007
Defining Deviancy Down
U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan recently published a disturbing essay entitled “Defining Deviancy Down.” In the November 22 issue of The New Republic, commentator Charles Krauthammer writes that “Moynihan’s powerful point is that with the moral deregulation of the
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 17, 2007
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He died on January 28, 814. Many years later, archaeologists discovered the tomb of Charlemagne, the great king and emperor of France. When the tomb was opened, after being closed for centuries, the men who entered it found something amazing. They found certain treasures of the kingdom, of course.
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Denomination:
Nazarene
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Senator Mark Hatfield, former Governor of Oregon and U.S. Senator for 30 years visited India and toured Calcutta with Mother Teresa. They visited the so-called "House of Dying," where sick children are cared for in their last days, and the dispensary, where the poor line up by the hundreds to
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 4, 2007
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A preacher one day was preaching on perfection and he asked the congregation, "Does anybody here claim to be or even claim to know another person beside Jesus Christ who is perfect?" To his surprise a man in the back stood up. The preacher said, "Sir, you can’t actually be standing up claiming to
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Denomination:
Christian Church
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 5, 2007
Do you think television doesn’t have a strong influence on young people? MTV knows otherwise.
A recent self-promotional ad in an advertising trade publication brags, "Any channel can deliver eyeballs. But how many can include hearts and minds?"
In another ad, MTV calls itself "not a TV
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Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Heath Carlton on Aug 1, 2007
If you’ve kept up with the local news you may have read about a local concrete company who was using some inadequate materials in their mix. Because of this, the people buying concrete from this company were building foundations for houses and lots of other things with defective concrete. After a
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 1, 2007
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We have bought all the God is only love theology of today. However, the plain meaning of this passage is still in affect today, whether we believe it or not. We need to get serious about it.
However, our modern scientific minds silently scoff at God bringing sickness and death as judgement,
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Denomination:
Wesleyan