Contributed by Larry Moyer on Aug 5, 2009
I CAN DO NO LESS
One day a man in the Army was reading his instructions from the General about what he was to do that day. Now the General of the Army was highly respected and loved. Someone happened to walk by and asked, "What are you reading?" The man answered, "I’m reading my instructions from
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Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 20, 2006
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We must first embrace our own old identity, as Jesus said, “if any man will come after me, let him deny himself . . . “ We must embrace it and deny it, then by faith accept our spiritual identity in Jesus Christ. The analogy is given, for purposes of illustrating, of a fifteen year old, unmarried
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Contributed by Craig Cramblet on Mar 1, 2003
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August 1999 Landover, Maryland
100 years of Christian fellowship, unity, and community outreach ended last Tuesday in an act of congregational discord. Holy Creek Baptist Church was split into multiple factions.
The source of dissension is a piano bench which still sits behind the 1923 Steinway
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 11, 2002
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God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the wrong
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PHARISEES WANT A SIGN
The word peroushim, transliterated "Pharisees," means "separated ones." Their attitude is that external observance of the hundreds of prescriptions of the Law is the essential human response to the covenant of God. They seek a sign–-and remember that Jesus has just given
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Notice the great truths we learn about worship from the example of the Wise Men:
Worship is an act of those who are wise.
Worship calls for divine guidance.
Worship demands a separation.
Worship calls for concentration.
Worship calls for a commitment.
Worship brings great joy to the
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As a young father, one of the great delights I had was putting the presents for my children under the Christmas tree each year. The bigger ones that required assembly would always make the night a little longer than it should have been, because I always prided myself in my ability to figure out
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 8, 2006
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Ikuko Toguri was born in Los Angeles on July 4, 1916 the daughter of Japanese immigrants. She went by the name Iva. Iva was a Girl Scout as a child, and she was raised as a Methodist. Iva graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in Zoology. She then worked in her
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Contributed by Andrew Hill on Feb 10, 2008
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The great problem with trying to earn salvation is that no-one has ever done it! It is not that there was anything wrong with the Law. The problem is with human beings. In the movie the ‘Sound of Music’ a young woman by the name of Maria is sent from a convent to become governess to the five
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Bo Dunford on Jan 15, 2007
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* I’ve learned the meaning of a few words that women
use from time to time. * For instance ... The word “Fine.”
* This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.
C) “Five Minutes.” * If she is getting dressed, this is half an hour!
* Five minutes is
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 18, 2007
Tell somebody, Christianity is about a relationship, not rules.
1. Religion is about rules.
Let’s face it, religion is hard work.
* A good Muslim has to pray 5 times a day. He or she will also fast for a whole month every year.
* An orthodox Jew has to use separate sinks for
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Contributed by Curtis Kittrell on Apr 30, 2002
Quotable
“I believe that each individual is precious to God, and that a divine undefeatable purpose is being worked out in every life; a life that goes on after death. A thousand things happen to us which are not ‘the will of God,’ but
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Pentecostal
Contributed by John Gerald on Sep 15, 2004
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Mr. George Mueller set forth five conditions of prevailing prayer, which he followed:
a.) Entire dependence upon the merits and mediation of Jesus as the only grounds for claiming a blessing.
b.) Separation from all known sin.
c.) Faith in God’s promise as
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Methodist
Contributed by Alan Perkins on Jan 12, 2003
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[Power of the tongue]
At a birthday party for Strom Thurmond, Senator Trent Lott was paying tribute to the man, and he made this statement, "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed
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A Modern day example of this is found In the movie Groundhog’s day. Bill Murray finds that he is stuck repeating the same day over and over again. At first, he is very frustrated and thinks he is going to go insane. No matter what he does he cannot affect or change the events of the day. Then
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Lutheran
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Aug 21, 2007
“The church, especially in the realm of evangelicalism, has over history bounced between two extremes. On the one hand isolationism, which makes us very sure of what we have to say but there’s no one to talk to, on the other an absorption by the culture, which gives us someone to
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Orthodox
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