Contributed by Spencer Miller on Jun 16, 2013
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I remember listening to a sermon illustration given by the powerful proclaimer, Rev. Dr. A. W. Mays of Austin, Texas.
He told us of an incident that took place in his hometown of Austin concerning a streetlight. In Austin there was a high crime area, and the residents of the community petitioned
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Mar 5, 2022
If you say that Jesus is waiting on the Church to get the Gospel out before His return, let me give you a few statistics on the challenge the Church faces.
We have almost 8 billion people on our planet right now. There are almost 2.4 Christians in the world today.
If 500,000 people were
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 3, 2009
“So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do” (Eph. 5:15-17). To ignore that is to court disaster.
The Winter 1991 issue of the
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Contributed by Corey Arnold on Nov 17, 2003
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Many of us live our lives like Elaine’s boyfriend on Seinfield:
Elaine asks, "Do you believe in God?"
"Yes," her boyfriend replies.
Elaine asks, "Is it a problem that I’m not religious?"
"Not for me," her boyfriend
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Nov 16, 2006
Many of us live our lives like MONOPOLY. You know how the game works. Players accumulate property, build houses and hotels, and then wait for the other players to land on their property so they have to pay up. Eventually you hope to bankrupt everyone else and have all the money and property.
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 30, 2001
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[Nobel Nominee Says All Religions Are Equal, Citation: S.A. Mawhorr, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois) (1-5-00), p.1]
At a January 4, 2000 interfaith dialogue in the Chicago suburbs, Nobel Peace Prize nominee M. Cherif Bassiouni, a law professor at DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois,
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The official position of Islam is that her martyrs go directly to heaven:
The Prophet said, "The person who participates in (Holy battles) in Allah's cause and nothing compels him to do so except belief in Allah and His Apostles, will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he
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Contributed by Brian Mavis on Oct 30, 2001
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A DIFFERENT VIEW OF PEACE
"Islam, we’ve been told, is related to the Arabic word
meaning "peace." This is correct, except that the
word means a particular kind of peace. A better
translation is "surrender" or "submission." It
describes the peace when a vanquished soldier lays
down his arms in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 14, 2002
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Comments About Muhammad Originate in Key Islamic Source
Two former Muslims responded June 12 to complaints from Islamic groups that a speaker’s comments at the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference in St. Louis were "bigoted" and "hateful."
National media have widely reported that Jerry Vines,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2002
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GIVE ME MY CHANGE
A Buddhist approaches a hotdog vendor and says, "Make me one with everything."
The Buddhist gives the vendor a $20 bill and waits. Finally he says, "Where’s my change?"
The vendor replies, "All
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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ISLAM
What’s the main idea?
On his many caravan rides along the trading route between
Syria and Arabia, a merchant named Muhammad observed people of
all kinds of faiths. He became increasingly concerned that
people were straying from ethical and moral responsibility. In
A.D. 610,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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Students Don’t See Western Culture as Superior
Eighty-four percent of college students today do not believe that Western culture is superior to Arab culture according to a newly released poll funded by Americans for Victory Over Terrorism (a project by Empower.org) and former Secretary of
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