Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2002
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“Doubt is the skeleton in the closet of faith and I know no better way to treat a skeleton than to bring it into the open and expose it for what it is: not something to hide or fear, but a hard structure on which living tissue may grow.”
Philip Yancey, Reaching for the
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Contributed by Carl Greene on Jun 15, 2007
As a Federal Agent, I was required to appear before my supervisor to review my job performance. Did my work performance meet the requirements of my position description?
Do we understand the "job requirements" as Christ’s Disciples? Are we living and
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Methodist
Contributed by Larry Vinson on Jun 17, 2008
According to the most recent U.S. Census, 43% of American children do not live with their father. Coinciding with that statistic is this: Those children who grow up in a fatherless home are twice as likely to drop out of high school; twice as likely to
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Michael West on Sep 29, 2008
Today our prayer could be: Lord, You were neither disheartened nor crushed as You lived YOUR life. The Father upheld You in Your mission. We ask today to uphold us. Grant us new strength, restore our
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 8, 2008
A church was having a break in problem so they had a new alarm system installed. When the alarm goes off, the alarm company calls the church, calls the pastor, calls the assitant pastor, and then calls the sheriff. We need alarms like that in our lives.
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Rickey Bennett on Aug 16, 2009
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SALVATION = PERSEVERANCE
The topic of "The Perseverance of the Saints’ (Remaining Christian) speaks to these questions. ’The perseverance of the saints means that all those who are truly born again will be kept by God’s power and will persevere as Christians until the end of their
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We were at the Loveall's house the other day (having Louisiana style gumbo!) and I noticed this saying on a plaque on their wall. "Live in such as way that those who don’t know God will come to know God because they have come to know you." If
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Christian/Church Of Christ
"We must also be bold and forceful critics of the idols, injustices, and immorality we find in our culture. We need to expose and root out cultural factors that make it hard for people to have faith in God and to live a just and moral life."
(Archbishop
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Catholic
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
Quote Charles Spurgeon:
"The Holy Ghost works by those who feel they would lay down their own lives for the good of others, and would impart to them not only their goods and their instructions, but themselves also, if by any means they might save some. O
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Brethren
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Feb 26, 2006
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Missionary Robert Porteous and his wife were taken prisoners by Chinese communist bandits in 1931. This missionary couple was led to a lonely spot on top of a hill where they were to be executed. The Chinese leader said, “This is the place.” and the executioner took a long knife from its holder
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Randall Bergsma on Dec 26, 2006
Don’t miss this: not even good, humanitarian performance fills up the soul! Bob Geldof was a British rock musician who decided to do something about the famine in Ethiopia during the early 1980’s. He put his own career on the back-burner and spent an entire year of his life organizing fund-raising
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 10, 2007
How deeply do you desire to connect with God? Are you desperate to see a mighty movement of God on your campus and throughout your generation?
In the first decade of recent centuries, God has moved in astonishing ways to bring spiritual awakenings through students. We are living in that time
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Mike Mcguire on Feb 7, 2007
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The movie "Saving Private Ryan" ends with Captain Miller(Tom Hanks’ character)sitting near a bridge after an attack by German forces. His life is ebbing away as he pulls Ryan (Matt Damon)down toward him. Struggling for breath he whispers, "Earn this, earn this." As Ryan stands his face morphs back
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