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  • I Like To Illustrate God's Wrath With A Lit Match ...

    Contributed by Allen Hern on Jan 6, 2007
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    I like to illustrate God’s wrath with a lit match and a piece of paper. If I bring the flaming match into contact with the paper, everyone knows what will happen. The flame will consume the paper. This requires no red in the face anger toward the paper. It is simply a law governing these two ...read more

  • Does This Mean That Bad Kids = Bad Parents? Of ...

    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 7, 2008
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    Does this mean that bad kids = bad parents? Of course not. 1. Today’s society has this “Blame someone else” mentality. a. “I spilt this McDonald’s coffee on myself, it was to hot” b. Lets sue the tobacco companies for giving people cancer. c. Lets sue the gun manufacturers for gun violence. 2. ...read more

  • Picture Again The Medieval Manor We Talked About ...

    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jun 15, 2010
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    Picture again the medieval manor we talked about earlier. No doubt many lords of the manor were more concerned about their own comfort and safety rather than about their people. But a good lord would defend his people. He would fight for them against marauders, raiders, bandits. He might even bleed ...read more

  • Eastern Religious Beliefs About Hell

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 28, 2012
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    EASTERN RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ABOUT HELL Buddhists believe in 7 "hot hells" which await the evildoers - each flanked by 4 torture chambers that include a fiery pit and a quagmire. Tibetan Buddhists also speak of eight cold hells and certain "Frontier" hells for those guilty of lesser sins. Hindus ...read more

  • Marriage In A Recent Religion & Ethics Newsweekly ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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    Marriage In a recent Religion & Ethics Newsweekly poll 71% of Americans agree “God’s plan for marriage is one man, one woman, for life.” Only 22% think divorce is sin while 49% say cohabitation is acceptable. Only 34% of evangelical Christians and 30% of traditional ...read more

  • Our Daughter Carrie And Her Husband Shannon Have ...  PRO

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Mar 22, 2004
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    Our daughter Carrie and her husband Shannon have a dog; rather he is a small horse. He is called Coltrane. Cole does not realize he weighs 150 pounds. He also does not realize he has "drooling issues". (Now that may be caused by the fact that my wife brings hot dogs to the house whenever we ...read more

  • I Will Never Forget The Day I Watched About 40 ...  PRO

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Oct 20, 2004
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    I will never forget the day I watched about 40 khaki-clad men get off an old rattletrap brown bus in Houston, Texas. Some had scars on their faces. I especially remember one man whose arm had been amputated. Some of them looked tough. I remember thinking I would not want to meet some of those guys ...read more

  • The Year Was 1992. A Man Was On Parole For Child ...

    Contributed by Kent Kessler on Mar 24, 2007
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    The year was 1992. A man was on parole for child molesting. His fellow apartment renters complained of odors and chainsaw noises. When the police searched his apartment, they found it full of skulls, headless torsos and body parts. He would murder, mutilate and sometimes cannibalized boys and men. ...read more

  • The Year Was 1992. A Man Was On Parole For Child ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    The year was 1992. A man was on parole for child molesting. His fellow apartment renters complained of odors and chainsaw noises. When the police searched his apartment, they found it full of skulls, headless torsos and body parts. He would murder, mutilate and sometimes cannibalized boys and men. ...read more

  • Adoption In Christ Frees Us From ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 10, 2010
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    Adoption In Christ Frees Us From Satan An illustration from history past can help us realize the significance of being children of Almighty God - an amazing concept! The image of emaciated babies and young children sitting in cribs, in a stark, ill-equipped Romanian orphanage blazed across the ...read more

  • Key Bible Verses On Healing

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 9, 2024
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    The Bible contains numerous passages that address healing. Let’s explore some of these verses: 1. Jeremiah 17:14 (ESV): "Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise." 2. 1 Peter 2:24 (ESV): "He himself bore our sins in his body on ...read more

  • According To The Chicago Tribune, On June 22, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Nov 7, 2004
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    According to the Chicago Tribune, on June 22, 1997, parachute instructor Michael Costello, forty-two, of Mt.Dora, Florida, jumped out of an airplane at 12,000 feet altitude with a novice skydiver name Gareth Griffith, age twenty-one. The novice would soon discover just how good his instructor was, ...read more

  • Max Lucado In His Book Life Lessons From The Book ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Apr 3, 2007
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    Max Lucado in his book Life Lessons from the Book of Romans writes this in the introduction: At the moment I don’t feel too smart. I just got off the wrong plane that took me to the wrong city and left me at the wrong airport. I went east instead of west and ended up in Houston instead of Denver. ...read more

  • Max Lucado In His Book Life Lessons From The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Max Lucado in his book Life Lessons from the Book of Romans writes this in the introduction: At the moment I don’t feel too smart. I just got off the wrong plane that took me to the wrong city and left me at the wrong airport. I went east instead of west and ended up in Houston instead of Denver. ...read more

  • Differing Perspectives  PRO

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 8, 2007
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    Differing Perspectives Shortly after the Communist revolution in Cuba, there were strong persuasive attempts at turning the people away from God. In grade schools, teachers would ask their students whether God could live up to His promises or not. Of course, the students said yes. The teacher would ...read more

  • As Joni Earickson Tada Puts It… The Message He ...

    Contributed by David Rumley on Apr 16, 2009
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    AS JONI EARICKSON TADA PUTS IT… The message He wanted to get across was that sin kills; Hell is real, but God is merciful, His kingdom can change you, and I am your passport. And anytime people missed that and started to come to Jesus simply to get their situations fixed, the Savior backed away. I ...read more

  • Unknown Inheritances  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2009
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    UNKNOWN INHERITANCES A Michigan factory worker, earning less than ten thousand dollars a year, was an unknowing heir to a half-million dollars. When located by an investigator some years after his benefactor’s death, the worker explained that he had neither returned home nor kept in touch with his ...read more

  • Ignorance Of One's ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 27, 2010
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    Ignorance of One’s Inheritance A Michigan factory worker, earning less than ten thousand dollars a year, was an unknowing heir to a half-million dollars. When located by an investigator some years after his benefactor’s death, the worker explained that he had neither returned home nor kept in touch ...read more

  • Reunited

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 23, 2011
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    REUNITED This week (1-11) an interesting story hit the presses: A woman who was kidnapped as a newborn 23 years ago says finding her real mother "felt like a dream." Carlina White was just 19 days old when she disappeared from Harlem Hospital in New York. She tells the New York Post that when ...read more

  • Resurrection Plant

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 20, 2014
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    As a boy I saw an advertisement in a comic book that appealed to my scientific nature. The product being offered for sale was called a "miracle plant." The ad declared that the plant would be dead when received by the purchaser; but when placed in water, it would soon "miraculously" return to ...read more