Contributed by David Scudder on Jul 19, 2007
                
                
                
                    We need not climb up into heaven to see whether our sins are forgiven: let us look into our hearts, and see if we can forgive others. If we can, we
                    
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                    Contributed by Johnny Small on Mar 12, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    God So Loved
I want to paint a picture for you this morning.  Picture yourself arguing with a friend and you really lose it. You pull out a gun and kill your friend.  You are caught and arrested.  You receive your day in court and found guilty of your sin of murder.  You are sentenced to die by
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Nov 13, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	John Newton was a man who knew both the bondage of sin and the liberating power of the Holy Spirit.  He was nurtured by a devout Christian mother who prayed that her only son would become a preacher.  But she died when John was very young, and he became a sailor, after the example of his
                    
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                    Contributed by Emilia Florio on Feb 15, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Over the past several weeks I’ve had the opportunity to have conversations with a young man, in his early 20’s, who’s really struggling with the question of “Is God real?”  Matt is a self-proclaimed atheist, a sweet young guy, really.  But he picks up the newspapers, and he switches on the TV, and
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Doebler on Apr 16, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    During World War II, a young paratrooper,  David Webster of E Company, 101st Airborne wrote his mother, “Stop worrying about me.  I joined the parachutists to fight.  I intend to fight.  If necessary, I shall die fighting, but don’t worry about this because no war can be won without young men
                    
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                    Contributed by David Haun on Jan 9, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Christ has no hands but our hands 
To do His work today. 
He has no feet but our feet 
To lead men in His way. 
He has no tongue but our tongue 
To tell men how He died. 
He has no help but our help 
To bring them to His side. 
We are the only Bible 
The careless world will read; 
We are the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A Christian who passes through the dark tunnel of depression tends to focus on his sinful weaknesses and failures. God can use this time in a positive way, however, to enlarge his appreciation for His all-encompassing and all-sufficient grace.
In 1964, Alan Redpath, former pastor of Moody Church
                    
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                    Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Dec 18, 2006
                
                
                
                    Suppose you committed a brutal murder and were arrested for it.  You were sent to jail, but you had no money to afford a lawyer so one was appointed for you.  You found out he’s the best there is.  Your trial comes.  The evidence is overwhelming, you’re convicted and sentenced to death. Then
                    
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                    Contributed by Clark Tanner on Dec 28, 2006
                
                
                
                    Friends and family, this you need to hear and understand today.  If you are one who has believed from your heart in Jesus Christ as the One who shed His blood and died to pay the penalty for your sins and then rose bodily from the dead on the third day just as He said that He would, and you now
                    
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                    It Is Well With My Soul
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 11, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illustration:  Jesus, as an example
D. M. Stearns was preaching in Philadelphia. At the close of the service a stranger came up to him and said, “I don’t like the way you spoke about the cross. I think that instead of emphasizing the death of Christ, it would be far better to preach Jesus, the
                    
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                    Examine your hearts today as you partake of the body and blood of Christ.  Repent of any thought, word, or deed that the Holy Spirit points out in your life that is not pleasing to God.  Rededicate yourself to being His disciple, and receive the heart warming assurance John Wesley experienced on
                    
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                    Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 15, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One afternoon in 1965, Daniel Waswa, a citizen of Kenya, struggled up a hill and was crucified by his wife at his own direction. As he hung on the cross, he told the gathered crowd, “I am dying for the sins of all Kenyans.”
After nailing her husband to the cross, the woman collapsed on the ground
                    
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                    Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Jan 14, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Romans 6:11 "So you should consider yourselves dead to sin and able to live for the glory of God through Christ Jesus." 
Something that’s dead is unresponsive.  I’ve brought one of my daughter’s stuffed animals today, a large dog.  When she was little she called him James T. Bone.  It’s not really
                    
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                    4.	Backus notes, “Many people believe that we just sin and that’s all there is to it. You may shrug and say, “I’m just a sinner an I can’t help myself.” But you can help yourself. There is psychological dynamic underlying sinful behavior. By changing your thinking (an act of will), you can change
                    
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