Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 23, 2002
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SO FAR BEHIND
The cartoon character Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes once said, “God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind I’ll never die.”
SOURCE: Matthew Rogers in "Making
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Contributed by Nelson Emeonu on Oct 31, 2005
“Gods anointed vessels are not entertainers, comedians, soothsayers, nor are they stylish. They are real, broken, humble vessels who are sanctioned and empowered by God to share His unsearchable riches to a lost and dying world. When God breaks us, we become equipped, energized, filled, thrilled,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
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WHAT WILL YOU GIVE?
On one of Matthew Rogers' recent work trips to the Dominican Republic, everyone in the group was encouraged to leave behind any clothes or gear they didn’t want, because someone there could certainly use them. He was just going to give away some of his old worn out clothes,
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Jesus was not just another rabbi among thousands. He was unique in so many ways, And here in Matthew’s gospel he reveals his ability to cut through the fog of legalism to give the essence of all law by boiling everything down to its most basic parts. He was able to take the Decalogue (10
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 6, 2009
"Friends and foes, chief priests in hate, Pilate in mockery, angels in adoration, disciples in love, Christ himself in lowliness (Acts 22:8), and now the multitudes in simplicity, all proclaim him 'of Nazareth.'
(as cited in Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Hrsg.): The Pulpit
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Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Feb 21, 2002
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Years ago when I was doing youth ministry, we received applications from students who wanted to go on a mission trip.
The missionary we were helping only had accommodations for a certain number to go, so the applications allowed the youth ministry sponsors to select the final team of students
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 9, 2011
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VACANT HOMES, VACANT LIVES
TIFTON, GA — The most interesting thing about Tifton is an abandoned Victorian house filled with thousands of bats. Tift County declared the once-elegant house in the town’s historic district off limits after a bat specialist said that maybe 20,000 bats had moved in,
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on May 31, 2026
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HOW LONG IS ETERNITY?
By Loyd C. Taylor, Sr.
How long is eternity?
No tongue can truly say,
We stand before its vast unknown,
And feel its weight today.
Suppose a bird takes flight
Toward the moon so far away,
It carries grains and leaves them there,
Then brings them back someday.
When all that
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Sep 17, 2005
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Christian author Neil Anderson wrote a list he called The Twenty Cans of Success. These are based on what the NT says is true of Christians. These are promises, claimed by believers through the centuries. Allow God to speak to you through these assurances.
1. Why should I say I can’t when the
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 13, 2008
Martyrs p222 -223 MacAuthurs Matthew
Over 300 years of Roman persecution Christians dug nearly 600 miles of catacombs beneath the city of Rome. Archaelolgists estimate 4 million bodies buried there. Perhaps 50 million killed in Dark Ages, and millions in our own century by
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Contributed by N A on Aug 9, 2008
"Note, Praying friends are valuable friends; it is good to have an intimacy with and an interest in those that have fellowship with God and an interest at the throne of grace; and it well becomes the greatest and best of men to desire the assistance of the prayers of others for them. St. Paul often
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 21, 2019
Matthew Henry, the famous Bible scholar, was once accosted by thieves and robbed of his billfold. He wrote these memorable words in his diary:
"Let me be thankful, first, because I have never been robbed before; second, although they took my billfold, they did not take my life; third,
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 8, 2010
Occasionally I meet Christians who say “God is telling me to go and do this or that” and then the next minute God seems to have changed His mind. I remember one guy who made God look like He didn’t know how to make up His mind at all! One day it was “God wants me to do this.” and the next day it
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
Standing on a small platform, a reader calls out names, “Michael Hyde. Donald Jackson. Jose Munoz.” The names being read were those engraved on “The Wall.” No one calls it anything else. It was once highly controversial. This was not a statue, no soldier on horseback, but a black granite gash
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