Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 5, 2009
What aspect of the Gospel differentiates it from every philosophy or doctrinal statement of mankind? It is that it comes directly from God. It is otherworldly. It
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 25, 2009
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BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER
At some point or another you may have used this familiar phrase - Blood is thicker than water. The context in which we use it is to describe the meaning that blood-related families are more important than anyone else. R. Richard Pustelniak, congregational leader for the
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Mike Gillett on Feb 28, 2007
Stage One: UNDERSTAND:
What does the passage actually say?
Setting: When and where was the book or passage written?
Purpose: Why was it written?
Context: What is the book as a whole about?
Form: How, or in what form, was it written?
Words: What is the meaning of individual words?
Stage Two:
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by C Jordan on Nov 18, 2010
FOSSIL EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION
In his introduction to the 150th anniversary edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species, Ray Comfort notes, "Darwin acknowledged that the absence of intermediates put his theory in doubt, but he attributed their lack to the scarcity of fossils at that time -- and he
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EPAPHRODITUS -…His name means “charming.” And what a charming winsome person he was. Paul uses four words to describe him, “brother, companion, fellow-soldier, and messenger.” The Greek word “brother,” means literally, “from the same womb.” It speaks of a common origin. A common origin speaks of a
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"What Paul calls fruit is the sole product of the Spirit-possessed life. It is the fruit of the Spirit; that is, it is His fruit and not that of the believer. All that the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Observers say that we Americans put too much emphasis upon conformity and not enough on the development of true individuality. We could reverse this trend by encouraging our children to be different, to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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Probably it was in that moment that all the bickerings and back-talk of husbands and wives originated; when Adam called to Eve to come and look at his First Fish while it was still
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 14, 2008
Salman Rushdie, is an author who had a fatawah, or Islamic death edict, put on his life several years ago for writing a book critical of Islam called Satanic Verses. In another book he wrote entitled Imaginary Homelands he notes one of the family traditions of his home:
“In our house, whenever
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Contributed by Dennis Clark on Apr 12, 2001
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Dallas Williams: You give me a 1000 words and I can have The Lords Prayer,The 23rd Psalm, The original Hippocratic oath, a Shakespearian sonnet, the preamble to the Constitution,Lincoln’s
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
THROUGH HIS BLOOD
In 1927, in West Africa, a blood specimen was taken from a native man named Asibi, who was sick with yellow fever. A vaccine was made from the original strain of virus obtained from this man. In fact, all the vaccine manufactured since 1927 by the Rockefeller Foundation and
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Brethren
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 6, 2007
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A certain man wanted to sell his house in Haiti for $2,000. Another man wanted to buy it, but because he was poor, he couldn’t afford the full price.
After much bargaining, the owner agreed to sell the house for half the original price with just one stipulation: He would retain ownership for one
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is
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