A Class would consist of no more than 20 people. Today an ideal size is between four and twelve. Wesley had three “General Rules of the Methodist Class Meetings” for which each class member was expected to give a verbal account as to their personal progress the past week. These three “General
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 2, 2009
The Talmud records a similar parable by Rabbi Johanan b. Zakkai - b. Shabbat 153a* [It is like] a king who invited his servants to a feast and did not appoint them a time. The wise among them adorned themselves and sat down by the door of the palace, for they said: Is anything lacking in a palace?
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Contributed by David Baeder on Nov 8, 2008
The Jews have this concept, when they celebrate the Passover, they are not only remembering the deliverance of their ancestors from Egypt, they are celebrating their own deliverance from Egypt. It is a concept of historical solidarity. The bible presents this same view in baptism and in the
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Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Mar 2, 2009
I will never forget what Missionary Bill Lewis told me on my last night in Tanzania in 1963. The national pastor, in whose hut we had been staying while on this particular mission safari, had killed his only pig and had used all the remaining rice in his storage bin to provide our supper that
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Contributed by Alan Perkins on Mar 30, 2001
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C.S. Lewis, in “Mere Christianity”:
“Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite
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Contributed by J.d. Tutell on Jan 3, 2011
MISS GAD-ABOUT
Years ago a man named Phillip Keller went from being a shepherd to a pastor, in his book on the 23rd Psalm he talks about one particular sheep that he had. Phillip took great pride in maintaining his fields, they were far greener than that of his neighbor, much better then the
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 10, 2025
[223]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - OUR BOAST IS IN THE LORD
Last Sunday I preached on this verse - {{Galatians 6:14 “MAY IT NEVER BE THAT I SHOULD BOAST, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.”}}
Then we looked at how
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Why does God hate divorce? Listen to some ramifications of divorce, taken from Biblical Counseling for Today - Watson Pages 187-188 -- Watson notes:
Dobson commissioned his Focus on the Family staff to conduct a broad based survey of existing research concerning marital status. “From a social
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 6, 2010
MARRIED BUT NOT ENGAGED
Years ago, Julie and I began to have difficulty in our marriage. I was spending all my time pastoring a small Church, and our relationship was being neglected. It suffered to the point where I needed to take time out of ministry, and we needed to do some repair work. That
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
No Conscience Clause: Canadian Federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler admits that under the proposed Liberal same-sex “marriage” bill being fast-tracked through parliament, there would be no guarantees of protection for religious organizations that
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Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Aug 11, 2009
Albert Barnes: “What the urgent distress of this time was is not certainly known. If the epistle was written about A.D. 59, it was in the time of Nero; and probably he had already begun to oppress and persecute Christians. At all events, it is evident that the Christians at
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
Slippery Slope: World Net Daily reports that, in a survey taken between June 24 and July 8, 53% of respondents said they opposed “gay” marriages and 38% approved. In ‘96, the same survey found 65% opposed and 27%
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Contributed by Timothy Archer on Feb 27, 2004
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During the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s, the Iraqi Air Force was equipped with the MiG-29, one of the most technologically advanced planes of all time. Yet they suffered an incredibly high rate of loss of these planes, even when facing the Irani force that had inferior equipment. The makers of the
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