Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 26, 2001
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The Book of Judges ends with these words, "In those days there was no king," no law. And because there was no law, "every man did what was right in his own sight." Can you imagine what a world like that would be?
Just look at Los Angeles in 1992, or Miami in the 1980’s, or Watts in the 1960’s.
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 28, 2001
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Illus.: “How the Word Was Cut Into His Heart”
When the Christians in Lahore, India, wanted to stamp Matthew 11:28 on the back of Gospels they had printed, they found they could not obtain a rubber stamp with which to do it. The only way was to get a clever Moslem to cut the words in rubber for
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Wesleyan
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’Angels’ actually comes from the word for ’messenger’ in Greek (angelos), and in a very literal sense, they are messengers, indeed. God sends them to protect us sometimes. After Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, angels were there to minister to Him (in this case,
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Contributed by Don Hawks on Mar 16, 2002
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Listen to these words from Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard:
"What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know… the thing is to understand myself, to see what God
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Contributed by Rick Stacy on Mar 24, 2002
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The following words come from THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE, by Gary Smalley and John Trent:
His leaving had been abrupt and unforeseen. His wife had come home from shopping one day and found the note on the refrigerator. The words were brief and cold. He was tired of trying to make their marriage work. He
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 26, 2002
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“The word ‘Christian’ means different things to different people. To one person, it means a stiff, uptight, inflexible way of life—colorless and unbending. To another, it means a risky, surprised-filled venture, lived on tiptoe at the edge of expectation. Either of these pictures can be
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Contributed by Ken Schlenker on Aug 7, 2002
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Humility was a Hebrew word meaning the lowering of the Nile River. Now I know a lot of Egyptians friends that use to come through Galilee and we would talk and they would tell me that the Nile River meant everything to them. They were totally dependent upon it. When the Nile River went down so
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Lincoln stated in another instance these words about God ‘s will, “That the almighty does make use of human agencies and directly intervenes in human affairs is one of the plainest statements in the Bible. I have had so many evidences of his direction, so many instances when I have been controlled
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Contributed by John Harvey on Jan 4, 2006
“One who receives this Word, and by it salvation, receives along with it the duty of passing this Word on…Where there is no mission there is no Church, and where there is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing
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Contributed by Ronnie Brown on Jun 9, 2006
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The word impenitent means without repentance, without remorse. In one of my favorite movies, Indiana Jones is looking for the Holy Grail. He has certain clues that will take him through the deadly traps that lay ahead. The first clue is this: “The Breath of God. Only the penitent man will pass.”
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Contributed by Gary Landsberg on Dec 16, 2006
The Word of God changes the unlovely, and makes them lovely. I had a friend in Africa who was a missionary. He was over there eking out a living and preaching the Good News to all he could. He had spent time in the State penitentiary, but was changed by the Word of God. You see, they were
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Independent/Bible
-Even if Jacob did not buy into the words of the messengers, when he saw the wagons he could believe that Joseph was alive.
• The first sign of Joseph was a bloody coat and it fooled Jacob.
• The second sign of Joseph was wagons full of goods and it encouraged him.
• The first sign rattled Jacob.
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 25, 2007
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Some of the saddest words in the New Testament are concerning the disciples at the Last Supper. Jesus had repeatedly told them of his betrayal and coming suffering and death. He announced that one of them was about to betray him, and the next verse says, “A dispute arose among them as to which
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Methodist
Contributed by Mike Gillett on Feb 28, 2007
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We call this “exegesis.” The Greek word exegeomai means basically “to lead out of.” When applied to the Biblical text, it carries the sense of “reading out” the meaning. The meaning comes from the text. The noun, therefore, could refer to “interpretation” or
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Words are very powerful and they can inflict a tremendous amount of pain on a person. “In fact,” Christian Author and Speaker John Maxwell says, “that after the bruises have disappeared and
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Baptist