Contributed by Brian La Croix on Nov 4, 2002
Dr. Jeffery Meyers, of Bryant College in Tennessee, and an instructor at Summit Ministries has something he calls the “Four Deadly Questions” he asks people who don’t follow Christ:
“What do you mean (or “mean by that)?”
“How do you
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
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"You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God...This kind of prayer be sure the devil and the world and your
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Contributed by Robert Mitchell on Mar 30, 2008
Have you ever heard the term the proof is in the pudding? It actually comes from the phrase "the proof of the pudding is in the eating." It means that the true value or quality of something can only be judged when it’s put to use. The meaning is often summed up as "results are what count."
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Baptist
Contributed by Steven Chapman on Feb 8, 2001
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In a 1995 survey by Barna Research Group, it was discovered that non-Christians have no clue what Christians mean when some they use some of the phrases Christians often take for granted. 63% of non-Christians don’t know what Christians mean when they talk about the Gospel. 75% of non-Christians
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2004
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SON OF RESURRECTION
Dr. Joseph Haroutunian, professor at McCormick Theological Seminary, came to America from Armenia. One day a well-meaning friend said to him, "Your name is difficult to pronounce and difficult to spell--it could hurt your professional career. Why don’t you change your name to
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PROVERBS 22:6
“The Hebrew word for train (h\aµnak_) means to dedicate…. H\aµnak_ seems to include the idea of setting aside, narrowing, or hedging in. The word is sometimes used in the sense of “start.” Child-training involves “narrowing” a child’s conduct away from evil and toward godliness and
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Charismatic
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 10, 2009
Have you ever watched a cat hunt? I saw a neighborhood cat creep up on a rabbit. When the cat was about 20’ away, the rabbit saw the cat. They both froze not moving a muscle. The rabbit’s heart was probably beating 200mph waiting to see if this thing was a threat. They actually sat there for a good
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Church Of God
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
Let me tell about a man who in my book is a world-hugger. His parents called
him Billy Frank. His wife calls him Bill. His face is drawn by the
gravitational pull of years. The wrinkles on his brow betray a life of hard
work and stress. His legs are weak. So, too, his arms. His hands
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 30, 2003
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NO MATTER WHAT
A number of years ago, there was a newspaper account of a speech given by the president of a well-known university to a group of influential businessmen and civic leaders. The president told of a recent experience which he, his audience, and the newspaper reporter found humorous.
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C. S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity:
Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 16, 2009
A SPIRITUAL RHYTHM
Developing a rhythm in your spiritual life means organizing your life around times of stopping to remember God. What is important is not the length of time but that you regularly stop to refocus on God. It could be five minutes or forty minutes. It could be your break time.
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Church Of God
Contributed by Ed Sasnett on May 27, 2010
Someone has said that the cross has become so ordinary that we hardly see it anymore. Isn’t that a deeply sad statement? Can you imagine a time when you could hardly be moved by the death sentence being passed on someone very near to you? Yet church members can act as if they no longer see the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Erik Weihenmayer is blind, yet on May 25, 2001, he reached the peak of Mt. Everest. Suffering from a degenerative eye disease, he lost his sight when he was 13, but that didn’t stop him. On a mountain where 90 percent of climbers never make it to the top—and 165 have died trying since 1953—Erik
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June Hunt How to Forgive When You Don’t Feel Like It. in her book lists a few of the risks associated with a person who chooses to not forgive. The following information is from her book How to Forgive When You Don’t Feel Like It. Taken from pages 70-73:
Refusing to forgive means that God will not
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