Contributed by John Putty on Apr 5, 2011
THE MOTHER OF THE HOLINESS MOVEMENT
From the book, "The Cure of All Ills", Revivalist record the impact of the prayer life of Phobe Palmer in the holiness movement.
In this spiral of spiritual, social, moral and political degeneracy of the decade preceding 1857, God looked for a man, but he found
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Years ago a newly constructed bank building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, burned to the ground. Forty-six stories high, burned all the way to the ground. Several of the air-conditioners on the 12th floor had not been wired properly. 600 employees were in the building at the time. 188 died. One-third died
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 1, 2001
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Martin Luther wrote, “I study my Bible like I gather apples. First, I shake the whole tree that the ripest may fall. Then I shake each limb, and when I have shaken each limb, I shake each branch and every twig. Then I look under every leaf. I search the Bible as a whole like shaking the whole tree.
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 24, 2002
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Lew Wallace, the famous general and literary genius, was at one time a known atheist. For two years, he studied in the leading libraries of Europe and America, seeking information that would forever destroy Christianity. While writing the second chapter of a book he planned to write, he suddenly
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Contributed by Jeff Cheadle on Nov 18, 2005
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"For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one [person] to whom I’ve been doing this all my life– namely myself. However much I might dislike my own cowardice or
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Feb 19, 2011
WHAT GETS YOUR ATTENTION?
Two friends were sitting together in a café when a noisy car alarm interrupted their conversation. One friend said: "What good are car alarms when no one pays any attention to them?"
The other friend said "Some are quite effective. Last summer, my teenager spent a lot
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Brethren
AN EVERYDAY LADY
On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to obey a bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. At the time of her action, Rosa Parks served as the secretary of her local NAACP chapter. But even so, she acted as a private
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Lutheran
Contributed by Paul Shafit on Aug 4, 2007
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A Sunday school teacher decided to have her young class memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible: Psalm 23. She gave the youngsters a month to learn the chapter. Little Rick was excited about the task, but he just couldn’t remember the Psalm. After much practice, he could barely get
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 24, 2004
On the final page of the final book of C. S. Lewis’ work entitled The Chronicles of Narnia, some of the children who have been to Narnia lament that they once again must return to their homeland. But Aslan (the lion who represents Jesus) has the best news of all for the children. “[Aslan speaks
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Methodist
Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 13, 2005
My oldest son loves to read. His mom gets the credit for that. She has a ferocious appetite for reading, (as well as being extremely beautiful). One of the first series of books Kenny read was the children’s version of The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. The seventh book is entitled The Last
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Dec 17, 2009
BIBLE PRINTING ERRORS
While the Bible itself is infallible, fallible human beings have made notorious mistakes in trying to have the book printed. For example,
* The "Judas Bible" (1611): Judas (rather than Jesus) came with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, even though the previous
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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