Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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What Do People Want In Their Pastors? A new study by Hartford Institute researcher Adair Lummis reveals that, first and foremost, lay leaders want a pastor with an authentic religious life. Most lay people define that as a person whose faith combines both head and heart; a person whose lifestyle
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
Tombstone or an Urn?
Question that has come up over the years.
Should I be buried or cremated?
Some insist on bodily burial – so they can be bodily resurrected.
If you believe that, then take heed of my advice,
Stay clear of cannibals.
Believing you have to be buried to be resurrected is
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ted Mulder on Mar 24, 2007
C.S. Lewis observed, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Dec 10, 2000
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Terry Waite, who was a hostage in Lebanon for five long years, tells in his autobiography, how for month after month he was kept chained hand and foot. Most of his clothes were taken from him, his shoes and even his watch. For hours at a time he could only curl up as a baby and he says he felt
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Baptist
Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 29, 2001
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Abraham Lincoln once said, ¡§If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -¡Vthe very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Clarence Crane on Feb 9, 2001
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A car is made to run on petrol [gasoline], and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on himself. He himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Rick Doucette on Apr 18, 2007
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Pastor John Courson told of a time when he was a young kid that he was on a boat on the Colorado River right near the Hoover Dam, when the motor on their boat sputtered out! They could not get it started, And they found themselves drifting closer and closer to the dam, passing the signs that say,
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Calvary Chapel
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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There is a story about four preachers discussing the merits of the various translations of the Bible. One liked the King James Version best because of its simple, beautiful English. Another liked the American Revised Version best because it was closer to the original Hebrew and Greek. Still another
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Dr. David Seamands in his book Healing for Damaged Emotions says, “The two primary causes of emotional stress are the failure to receive forgiveness and the failure to forgive.” [Wheaton, ILL: Victor Books, 1989, pp.29-30]
Or as the great philosopher Lucy explained to Charlie Brown at the end of
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