Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 22, 2006
A. Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book: Mowgli, the man cub, asks the animals what’s
the most feared thing in the jungle. He’s told that when two animals meet on a narrow
path that one must step aside and let the other pass. The animal that steps aside for no
one would then be the most
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 27, 2006
This is real – Jesus is alive.
I few years ago I along with others prayed for a man who was miraculously healed. Turns out the very moment that we were praying the man was fully healed. I mean jumping out of the hospital bed – pull out the tubes healed. His family urgently called that afternoon
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
For those of you who weren’t here a couple of weeks ago - before he became a preacher John Newton was a wicked man. If there was something evil he could do... and he could figure out a way to do it… he did it.
In fact, his wickedness was so obvious, that when his ship, the Greyhound, was caught in
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Contributed by Cary Paulk on Mar 14, 2002
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The problem is that the church that fails to change fails to impact the culture of change. It becomes a dinosaur, a memorial to a world that no longer exists. So, on the one hand, while it protects those within its walls from overwhelming stress, on the other hand, it becomes biblically and
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Nov 17, 2003
This past Thursday, Alabama’s chief justice was fired for the stand he took in trying to protect a monument with the 10 Commandments on it. Now, I will not debate with you the rightness or the wrongness of his actions, but I will confess this. I am afraid there is a line being drawn in this
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Contributed by Sherry Proskine on Nov 21, 2007
Nowadays when you buy an appliance, anything electronic...they offer you a guarantee. So if you scratch it, drop it, immerse it...it’s covered and will be replaced. God offers us a guarantee. He guarantees to protect us, keep us and guide us
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 12, 2010
Book of Ezra. Why was the Lord’s temple begun first, even before the city wall? The temple was used for spiritual purposes; the wall, for military and political purposes. God had always been the nation’s protector, and the Jews knew that the strongest stone wall would not protect them if God was
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2008
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Love was the highest motivation, even among the Jews. We read in the Talmud:
"What difference is there between one who acts from love and one who acts from fear? — The difference is that indicated in this teaching: R. Simeon b. Eleazar says: Greater is he who
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 10, 2003
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OUR SALVATION “LORICA”—COMMUNION MEDIATION
A lorica was an ancient piece of armor that acted like a breastplate to shield its wearer from physical danger. But to the Celts of early Ireland, a lorica was also an oral chant that the pagan Druid magicians believed invoked magical powers of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
John Tyler, after death of William Henry Harrison …
When a Christian people feel themselves to be overtaken by a great public calamity, it becomes them to humble themselves under the dispensation of Divine Providence, to recognize His righteous government over the children of men, to acknowledge
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During his 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy often closed his speeches with the story of Colonel Davenport, the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
On May 19th, 1780 the sky of Hartford darkened ominously, and some of the representatives, glancing out the windows,
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