Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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THE FLAG AND THE CROSS - Several times during my ministry I shared in military funerals. Finally a very significant lesson dawned. I’ve seen military funerals on the news, and have participated in six or seven across the years. And not once have I seen the American flag go down with the deceased.
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Contributed by Steven W on Mar 15, 2005
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A manager has delegated authority [exousia]. If a manager resigns, he has no more authority. A policeman with uniform has authority when he stands at the traffic junction.
When
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2006
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Keep The Commandments: A recent USA Today/CNN /Gallup poll shows that 77% of Americans oppose the court order requiring the removal of the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
LEGEND OF A KING AND A HEAVY STONE
There are certain lessons of grace that can be learned only in the valley of pain and distress. Show me a Christian who has suffered much and deepened his dependence on God, and I will show you a sensitive soul full of compassion for others, and with a deep
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2025
Thomas Watson, the great Puritan preacher, said: "Bless God, you his saints, that he has removed your spiritual cataract, and has enabled you to discern those things
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Contributed by David Fox on Nov 12, 2001
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C.H.Mackintosh wrote: “There is power in the presence of a risen Savior to solve our difficulties, remove our perplexities, calm our fears, ease our burdens, dry our tears, meet our every need,
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Contributed by Bill Burress on Dec 28, 2009
The Legend of a Cherokee Indian Youth’s Rite of Passage?
A father takes his son into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. The youth is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble
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Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Jul 10, 2006
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El Roi, The God Who Sees
Only used once in the Bible, Genesis 16:13, on the lips of Hagar. Sarah had given Hagar to Abraham to have children. This was according to custom in those days, but not according to God. After Hagar bore Ishmael, Sarah treated her so harshly, Hagar
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
Sign by a flower bed in a park: “DO NOT PICK (twist off, sever, cut, clip, snip, snap off, pluck, pinch off, pull, bend, crush, pare, cleave, divide, break, touch or take, borrow, steal, remove or otherwise
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 10, 2006
A former Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, kept this saying on his desk calendar: "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names!" But God isn’t like that. David goes on to say in this psalm, "As far as the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Inevitably, the first word in the list is love, and Paul might well have contented himself with that word alone. Many of those that follow are special manifestations of love: long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and the others are not far removed: joy, peace,
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DIOGENES was one day standing on a street corner laughing like a mad man. “Why are you laughing?” He was asked. “Do you see that stone in the middle of the street? More than ten persons have already stumbled on it, then looked at the
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Contributed by Robert Garrett on Aug 8, 2005
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ILLUSTRATION
“THE COST OF DODGING DUTY”
I have read of a king who placed a heavy stone in the road and hid to see who would remove it. Men of various classes came and worked their way around it, some loudly blaming the king for not keeping the highways clear, but all dodging the duty of getting
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