Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"It is said that if Noahs ark had had to be built by a company, they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many mens business is nobodys
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Contributed by Troy Borst on May 26, 2005
ILLUSTRATION... The Life and Teaching of Jesus by James S Stewart, Abingdon Press pg 49
“Finally, Jesus would never violate the freedom of men’s wills. And that, too, the leap from the pinnacle would have involved. It would have been overriding their calmer judgment. It would have been forcing
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Contributed by John Putty on Mar 19, 2011
FRANK BOYD ON REVIVAL
Frank M. Boyd, an early Pentecostal instructor, said, "He expected all the students to be more filled with fire and love and zeal and more filled with the Spirit when they left than when they came. He said that when men had the Word without the Spirit they were often dead
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2011
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SIN IS LIKE QUICKSAND
In his book, Homesick for God, Joel Gregory described a horrible pit from which Tony Chain was rescued.
Tony and J. R. Hounchell went hunting the first day of duck season in 1981. They were in an area called Duck Flats, northeast of Anchorage, Alaska. Hours before, 10 feet
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 19, 2002
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When I attended Urbana in 1976 Margaret Clarkson wrote our theme song from this song, Where we sang with 18,000 in the Illinois University gym, Declare His glory, Among the nations, Throughout creation, His triumph sing. Till all earth’s people bow in adoration and Jesus Christ be everlasting
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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I think of David Livingstone, the pioneer missionary to Africa, who walked over 29,000 miles. His wife died early in their ministry and he faced stiff opposition from his Scottish brethern. He ministered half blind. His kind of perseverance spurs me on. As I run, I remember the words in his diary:
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
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I think of David Livingstone, the pioneer missionary to Africa, who walked over 29,000 miles. His wife died early in their ministry and he faced stiff opposition from his Scottish brethren. He ministered half blind. His kind of perseverance spurs me on. As I run, I remember the words in his diary:
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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L. T. Jeyachandran is executive director of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in Singapore. He gives this important insight: “The image God has given us in the Trinity is an image of three co-eternal, co-equal Persons giving themselves to one another in eternal self-effacement. The glory of
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A homeless drug addict in June 1984, John Corapi stumbled back into his mother’s house, with what he called all the forces of hell riding on his shoulder. He prayed for the first time in years and experienced the mercy of God, a sense of peace that replaced the wrath he had felt until then. He
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Catholic
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I heard the story of a young man who told his pastor that the Lord had called him into the ministry. And for several months he was busy in the work of the Lord, serving in the pulpit, leading Bible studies, going to prayer meeting, and so on. But then all of a sudden, he stopped coming to church.
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Aaron Mishoe on Apr 2, 2009
Wealth Building
Is getting rich wrong?
The Bible says the love of money, not money itself is evil.
What is your motivation in building wealth?
John Wesley said, “Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can.”
Selfish reasons for wealth building will reveal pride and greed in our
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Holiness
Contributed by Bret Toman on Jun 15, 2009
NEGLECT OF COMMUNITY
"If God designed the Church to function like a body with every member ministering in the power of the Holy Spirit to other members, in regular interpersonal relationship, then would it be surprising to find that the neglect of this regular interpersonal, spiritual ministry
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Baptist
Contributed by Larry Wilson on Aug 7, 2010
Bound by Tradition
Warren Wiersbe tells us, “Over the years I have seen churches . . . flounder and almost destroy themselves in futile attempts to embalm the past and escape the future. Their theme song was, ‘As it was in the beginning, so shall it ever be, world without end, Amen.’ Often I’ve
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