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                    "The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church...grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a
                    
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                    a.	In the New Testament, revival is a translation of the compound word anazao, which means “to live again”. It is used in the spiritual sense of bringing life to a Christian who has
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "If I had 300 men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ, and
                    
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                    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 31, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Look not back to yesterday,
So full of failure and regret;
Look ahead and seek God’s way—
Sins confessed you must forget.
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen, such alone will shake
                    
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                    “Johnny Cash once did an album called “American Recordings.”  On the album cover is a picture of two dogs. One dog is black with a white stripe. The other dog is white with a black stripe. The two dogs are meant to say something about to say something about Johnny Cash. 
     In an interview with
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    FREED FROM DEATH- COMMUNION MEDITATION
Paul Lee Tan writes about a horrible Roman practice:  
"The Romans sometimes compelled a captive to be joined face-to-face with a dead body, and to bear it about until the horrible effluvia [vapors] destroyed the life of the living victim. Virgil describes
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Winter on Jan 17, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Cher and Nicholas Cage starred in a 1987 movie called Moonstruck. In the film, Cher’s fiancé rushes to his dying mother’s bedside in Sicily. During his absence, Cher meets his estranged younger brother, played by Nicholas Cage. Cher is thunderstruck when she takes an immediate liking to Cage and an
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 19, 2004
                
                
                
                    I heard the true story the other day of a grandmother who was going to be baptized and her whole family was there to watch. They had tried to tell the 6 year old grandson what was happening, how Grandma was dying to sin and being baptized into Christ and so as they waited for Grandma to come out
                    
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                    Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 25, 2005
                
                
                
                    INTRODUCTION... Ransom
	Ransom, is an action packed drama thriller that came out in 1996 starring Mel Gibson and Rene Russo and directed by Ron Howard.  The movie focuses on Mel Gibson’s character, Tom Mullen, a rich airline owner, is shocked when his son is kidnapped.  He is willing to pay the two
                    
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                    Contributed by Greg Buchner on May 9, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A young son’s attempt at full forgiveness…(Illustrations Unlimited)
A pastor’s son and his mom had been to a shopping and the boy had not behaved himself. As they were driving home, he could sense her displeasure and said, “When we ask God to forgive us when we are bad. He does, doesn’t he?” His
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Searight on Aug 24, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    GRACE AND THE BOOK
Dorothy Sayers wrote, "If men will not understand the meaning of judgment, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace." 
IF you don’t realize what you could have faced at the judgment - what your sins really deserved - you’ll never appreciate the
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 15, 2012
                
                
                
                    QUOTE John Newton:
•	“I am not what I could be,
•	I am not what 1 should be,
•	But I am not what I used to be"
•	How imperfect and deficient I am! 
•	I am not what I wish to be, 
•	Although I abhor that which is evil and would cleave to what is good. 
•	I am not what I hope to be,
•	But soon
                    
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