Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 7, 2007
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Sin is a blasting presence, and every fine power shrinks and withers in the destructive heat. Every spiritual delicacy succumbs to its malignant touch...
Sin impairs the sight, and works toward blindness.
Sin benumbs the hearing and tends to make men deaf.
Sin perverts the taste, causing men to
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Aug 9, 2008
Martin Luther said: "Grace releases sin, and peace makes the conscience quiet. The two fiends that torment us are sin and conscience. But Christ has vanquished these two monsters, and trodden them under foot, both in this world, and in the world to come."
(Source: Barton,
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Sin is never a purely individual affair, “it always damages the [communion with the Church] that we have entered
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Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Feb 25, 2009
What is sin [a comparison of man’s and God’s perspective]?
Man call is an accident, God calls it abomination.
Man calls it a defect, God calls it a disease.
Man calls it an error, God calls it an enmity.
Man calls it a liberty, God calls it lawlessness.
Man calls it a trifle, God calls it a
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 3, 2009
Whatever happened to sin? That which, upon first exposure, provokes revulsion will, upon continued exposure, come to be tolerated and finally embraced.
When what was once a crime becomes a debate,
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Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jun 28, 2001
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The importance of really living the Christian life is illustrated in the life of the famous author Mark Twain. Church leaders were largely to blame for his becoming hostile to the Bible and the Christian faith. As he grew up, he knew elders and deacons who owned slaves and abused them. He heard men
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 9, 2001
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Who Lives In Your House?
Author: Unknown
Once there was a very wealthy young man who lived in a great,elaborate house with dozens of rooms. Each room was more comfortable and more beautiful than the one before it.
One day he decided to invite the Lord to come and stay with him.
When the Lord
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering we are where and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time,
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 18, 2002
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GOD ONLY LIVES IN THE BEST
The Old Testament Temple was only 30’ wide by 90’ long-- a mere 2700 square feet. It was smaller than many homes today. It has been estimated that to rebuild the Temple by the directions in the Bible would cost today about four billion dollars! It would take incredible
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