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  • Trusting Doctors, Trusting God  PRO

    Contributed by John Putty on Mar 19, 2011
    based on 8 ratings
     | 16,343 views

    TRUSTING DOCTORS, TRUSTING GOD Not many people enjoy going to the doctor, but according to Reuters, in 1994, one London accountant to that to an extreme. The 63-year-old man needed bladder surgery, but he couldn't overcome his fear of doctors and hospitals. So he self-reliantly did what had to ...read more

  • A Husband And Wife Team Of Researchers, The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 16, 2008
     | 1,721 views

    A husband and wife team of researchers, the founders of Empty Tomb, Inc., in Champaign, Illinois, have tracked American and American Christian expenditures as well as global needs. John and Sylvia Ronsvalle have estimated that $70-$80 billion a year could meet the most essential human needs around ...read more

  • True Peace And Joy

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 9, 2008
     | 5,328 views

    True Peace and Joy As a third-century man was anticipating death, he penned these last words to a friend: "It’s a bad world, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy which is a thousand times ...read more

  • Posted: September 21, 2006 © 2006 ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 21, 2007
    based on 1 rating
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    Posted: September 21, 2006 © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com: Noviana Malewa and three of her friends were walking on their way to a private Christian high school in Posa Kota subdistrict of Indonesia on Oct 29, 2005, when they were assaulted by six masked Islamic terrorists - jihadists wielding machetes. ...read more

  • Indeed, An Honest And Humble Acknowledgment Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Shearhart on Aug 14, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,176 views

    “Indeed, an honest and humble acknowledgment of the hopeless evil of our flesh, even after the new birth, is the first step to holiness. To speak quite plainly, some of us are not leading holy lives for the simple reason that we have too high an opinion of ...read more

  • Make The Most Of Opportunity

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 22, 2009
     | 1,511 views

    MAKE THE MOST OF OPPORTUNITY Teach your children about the Lord early and often. Why? From birth to 18th birthday is 6570 days. These will pass quickly. Add to this that teaching opportunities are limited during the first two years (infancy), and the last four (due to adolescence), days ...read more

  • Rewards And Punishments

    Contributed by Dean Courtier on Oct 12, 2009
     | 3,349 views

    REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS Hugh Evan Hopkins said "The problem of evil arises largely from the belief that a good God would reward each man according to his deeds and that an almighty God would have no difficulty in carrying this out. The fact that rewards and punishments, in the way of happiness and ...read more

  • I Didn't Recognize You

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
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    I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE YOU At a reception honoring musician Sir Robert Mayer on his 100th birthday, elderly British socialite Lady Diana Cooper fell into conversation with a friendly woman who seemed to know her well. Lady Diana’s failing eyesight prevented her from recognizing her fellow guest until ...read more

  • Amdrei Bitov, A Russian Novelist, Grew Up Under ...

    Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 6, 2003
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    Amdrei Bitov, a Russian novelist, grew up under the atheistic Communist regime. But God got his attention one dreary day. He recalls, “In my twenty-seventh year, while riding the metro in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) I was overcome with a despair so great that life seemed to stop at once, ...read more

  • There Is A Study Listed In The Journal Of ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 13, 2003
     | 1,648 views

    There is a study listed in the Journal of Neuroscience that shows certain electrical switches in the brain, known as L-type voltage-gated calcium channels (LVGCCs), are required to overcome fear. These switches only allow you to "unlearn" or conquer a specific fear or phobia. Right now, ...read more

  • The Pharisees Have Taken His Sabbath And Loaded ...

    Contributed by Chris Jordan on Nov 22, 2009
     | 2,525 views

    “The Pharisees have taken His Sabbath and loaded it up with more than 1,500 nitpicky rules and regulations. They took a good gift from God and made it into an unbearable burden for the people to live under… Let’s keep the Sabbath as a good gift. Let’s not make up our own Pharisaical laws and ...read more

  • I Recently Had A Nursery Operator Inform Me That ...

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Sep 13, 2010
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,579 views

    I recently had a nursery operator inform me that keeping my young fruit trees tied up so that the wind would not “damage” them was, in actuality, damaging them! They told me that the strong winds strengthened the fibers of the tree’s trunk and limbs so that it could withstand the fury of nature. ...read more

  • Foster: Five Percent Spirituality

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2012
     | 2,539 views

    FOSTER: FIVE PERCENT SPIRITUALITY Richard Foster writes this: Many of us live in a kind of inner apartheid. We segregate out a small corner of pious activities and then make no spiritual sense out of the rest of our lives. We become so accustomed to this way of living that we fail to see the ...read more

  • The Neglected Heart Will Soon Be A Heart Overrun ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,609 views

    "The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos; the church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for ...read more

  • If This Statement Is True – We Are People With ...

    Contributed by Davidson Goh on Aug 7, 2007
     | 1,128 views

    If this statement is true – we are people with great potential to do evil. Take a moment to examine ourselves – did we ever do this in our lives: - Did you ever want to cheat? - Did you tell a lie to cover up something you did which was not right? - Did you ever ...read more

  • It Is A Well Known Fact, That Hollywood Is ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
     | 1,806 views

    IT IS A WELL KNOWN FACT, THAT HOLLYWOOD IS FIXATED ON A WORLD ENDING SCENARIO, EVIDENCED IN THE 1998 MOVIE: ARMAGEDDON, WHICH CHARACTERIZES GOOD AND EVIL AS AN ASTEROID TWICE THE SIZE OF TEXAS, AND BRUCE WILLIS, THE GOOD GUY, WHO SAVES THE WORLD FROM DESTRUCTION. H. ARMAGEDDON GROSSED $201,573,391 ...read more

  • George Barna's Research Of 1996 And 1997  PRO

    Contributed by Martin Wiles on Apr 30, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 5,697 views

    George Barna’s research of 1996 and 1997. 1. Many professing Christians believe that people are inherently good, that our primary purpose is to enjoy life and that our most important responsibility is to take care of our family. 2. 81% believe that the Bible teaches that God helps those who help ...read more

  • Pelagianism A Simple Explaination

    Contributed by Clarence Eisberg on Sep 6, 2017
     | 5,175 views

    Pelagius. He was a British Monk who lived in the 4th century. He taught that Adam was created good and everything God creates is good. He went on to say that all human beings could be sinless, an never do an evil action if they chose. Nothing that some men have lived without sin. Adam’s sin, ...read more

  • I ...

    Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
     | 1,119 views

    ILLUSTRATION The example of EVIL in the 20th century. 1. 6,000,000 Jews murdered in gas chambers. 2. 7,000,000 gypsies/others 3. Russia slaughtered 20,000,000 Ukrainians 4. 1.5 million Armenians killed 5. tens of thousands ...read more

  • The Authority Of The Body

    Contributed by Major Gerardo Balmori on Apr 2, 2011
     | 2,810 views

    THE AUTHORITY OF THE BODY When Preacher John Wesley was a student at Oxford Unversity, he was shocked by the amount of drinking done by the students. (Wonder what he would think about college students today?) After writing to his mother, Susanna Wesley, for her counsel, he received the following ...read more

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