FROM: "LIVING WITH JESUS TODAY" by Juan Carlos Ortiz
We have a phenomenon in the church today which I call the "ETERNAL BABYHOOD OF THE BELIEVER."
We have members of our churches who, after years of hearing messages are just the same. They continually need a minister to keep after them, changing
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Glenn Durham on Apr 8, 2008
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A certain man, living in Budapest, Hungary, went to his rabbi, complaining: “Life is unbearable. Nine of us must live in the one room of my house. What can I do?”
The rabbi answers, “Take your goat into the room with you.” The man is incredulous. Certain he has misheard, he asks again. But the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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As a father, I have had moments in the lives of my
children that I was so overwhelmingly proud of them I did not know what to do or how to act. As I think back on these special memories, I recall doing something that almost seemed inappropriate for the moment.
What I was beholding called for
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on May 3, 2008
"Our lives should always be the first things to speak; and if our lips speak more than our lives, it will avail very little. So often the tragedy has been that people proclaim the gospel in words, but their whole life and demeanor has been a denial of it. The world does not pay much attention to
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Contributed by Scott Jensen on Jun 12, 2008
In a popular "Saturday Night Live" comedy skit, one of the characters, Stuart Smalley, attempted to console people as they struggled with their issues and dilemmas. In one of the more popular skits, he attempted to counsel Michael Jordan, the famous basketball player, with a non-existent struggle
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Lutheran
Contributed by John Petty on Aug 22, 2008
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"LIVING LIFE UPSIDE DOWN" by Russ Lee
John has a new way of looking at life
He’s tired of his job, his kids and his wife
He says the secret to his success
Was in leaving and finding himself
Now he’s someone to somebody else.
And you say we’ve risen to a new age of truth
You’re calling it a
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Church Of God
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 14, 2008
We are not meant to live in darkness. We were created to live in the light—in God’s light. I worked with a young lady several years ago whose boyfriend surrendered to the darkness. He blew his brains out with a shotgun just as she entered their bedroom. It was devastating. I knew the guy.
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Church Of God
Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 16, 2008
We live in a world where the truth is often elusive, like shifting sand. Just west of Yuma, Arizona lay the imperial sand dunes. This is a system extends for more than 40 miles along the eastern edge of the Imperial Valley agricultural region. The dunes are really interesting phenomena of that
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Christian Church
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Nov 25, 2008
Recently a young man committed suicide live on the internet while others watched. Some thought he was faking it but some people actually encouraged him to take his life. No one tried to stop him until it was too late. In the same way, we are watching
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Fred Schaeffer on Dec 5, 2008
When I lived in Ottawa, KS there was a salvage yard especially for trucks -- big trucks, mid-size trucks, cabs of all sizes and trailers, too -- the truck salvage yard had it all. In reality it looked like a cemetery for old, broken down trucks. This salvage yard spanned a half mile location along
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 23, 2009
Saturday Night Live had a skit with Hans and Frans, dressed in oversized stuffed sweatshirts to look like body builders with larger muscles. They would say (with a German accent), "We want to pump you up!" Some Christians live that
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 23, 2009
There was a Welsh woman who lived in a valley far away from any town or city. She was s simple minded, hard working person who knew little about the ways of the world. At a great sacrifice to herself, she had electricity installed in her little cottage. "You use the electric lights so little, I
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 3, 2009
John McArthur said, “We live in a culture that has elevated pride to the status of a virtue. Self-esteem, positive feelings, and personal dignity are what our society encourages people to seek.
“At the same time, moral responsibility is being replaced by victimism, which teaches people to blame
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2007
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Another two elderly people living in Trailer Estates, he was a widower
and she a widow, had known each other for a number of years.
One evening there was a community supper in the big activity center.
The two were at the same table, across from one another. As the meal went on,
he took a few
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A Roman historian named Tertullian, who lived in the late second to early third centuries (AD 155-220), wrote that even those who opposed Christianity knew that the mutual love of those who followed Christ was unique.
“Our care for the derelict and our active love have become our distinctive sign
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
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ILLUSTRATION: Glynn Wolfe lived 88 years; he was born July 25th 1908 and died June 10th 1997. He died alone in a nursing home in Redlands, California where no one visited him and no one came to claim the body. Wolfe died with $430 to his name which was used to give him a pauper’s funeral. What
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Assembly Of God
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