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Mark Buchanan’s shares an illustration from Leadership magazine in its Fall 2004 edition on pages 52, 53:
General Maximus comes to Rome dirty and shackled. This is not the way it’s suppose to be. Where’s Rome’s legendary pageantry to greet one of her heroes-the heraldry, the burnished armor, the
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Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 3, 2008
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Jesus said in John 13: 35, “Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.” A great New Testament example of this being done is in the early church. As Jews began to put their faith in Christ as the Messiah, they began to feel the effects of hostility toward them. They
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LIVE CHURCHES VERSE DEAD CHURCHES! (adapted, WRITER UNKNOWN)
Live churches constantly change, --- dead churches resist and refuse change...
Live churches love to try, dead churches feel they don’t have to...
Live churches have youth that are noisy and can’t be still, dead churches are very
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
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"One verse in every six in the first three Gospels relates either directly or indirectly to money. Sixteen of our Lords forty-four parables deal with the use of misuse of money. A loving, joyful, liberal giving to the Lord’s
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Contributed by Richard Francis on May 19, 2007
For me the scariest verse in the Bible is: Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ’Sir, open the door for us.‘ To die and be told by Jesus I don’t know you that is a reality to awful to contemplate, I know it will not happen to me,
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Contributed by Richard Francis on Sep 10, 2007
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Verses 1 - 2: As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? What do you picture? A nice deer skipping up to a clear bubbling flowing spring and gently lapping up the refreshing water? Me I see a
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Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 15, 2011
FITTED FOR SERVICE THROUGH SUFFERING
I grew up as a military brat and later my dad was a missionary to the military. When I was growing up, I was never exposed much to suffering. When we lived overseas, if someone got too sick, they shipped them back to the States, or (when we were stationed in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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With tongue in cheek, Mark Twain spoke of the two-faced life we all live: I am constructed like everybody else and enjoy a compliment as well as any other fool, but I do like to have the other side presented. And there is another side. I have a wicked side. Estimable friends who know all about it
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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The mark of a great leader is the demands he makes upon his followers. The Italian freedom fighter Garibaldi offered his men only hunger and death to free Italy. Winston Churchill told the British people that he had nothing to offer them but "blood, sweat, toil, and tears" in their fight against
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Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Apr 13, 2003
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Pastor Mark Thompson of Faribault, Minnesota, suffered terrible knife wounds from an assailant in his home, in October 1988. One of the many consequences of his difficult recovery was being forced to miss watching his son Chris run in the state cross-country championship meet. Pastor Thompson
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Contributed by Michael Thomas on Feb 27, 2004
Philosopher and theologian Mark R. Talbot, writing on the subject of “Godly Emotions,” describes it this way, “Strong negative emotions are important indicators of who – and whose – we are. To claim to be Christian and yet not to feel emotional aversion when Christian moral standards are violated
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