Contributed by Curtis  Rowe on Jan 3, 2008
                
                
                
                    The Tabernacle and later the Temple had many furnishings… incense altar, laver, lamp, censers, the ark and various implements and tools, but NO CHAIR!
The work of the priests was never finished!
  It is still so with Roman Catholicism today…
“In the Eucharist Christ gives up the very body which he
                    
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                    Roman Ceremonial Shield:
 
•	for public parades and ceremonies
•	small round shield
•	decorative piece of equipment
•	decorated with etchings, engravings, beautiful to see
•	never used in battle, just too
                    
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                    Roman Battle Shield:
•	worn by heavy-armed infantry
•	adapted to form of human body
•	main form of complete body protection
•	single handed combat = soldier completely protected
•	deflected arrows, darts, missiles
•	protected soldier from hand held weapons
•	much larger
•	oval shape or rectangular
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Church Growth: According to the 2003 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church experienced a 12% growth. Catholics followed with a 2.5% increase, while Mormons and the Assemblies of God each reported 2% growth in ‘01, the latest year for which figures
                    
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                    Contributed by John Bright on Mar 10, 2025
                
                
                
                    Roman short whip, also called a flagrum.  It was made of two or three leather (ox-hide) thongs or ropes connected to a handle. The leather thongs were knotted with several small pieces of metal, usually zinc and iron, attached at various intervals. Scourging would quickly remove the skin. According
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The Romans sometimes compelled a captive to be joined face-to-face with a dead body, and to bear it about until the horrible emanating smell destroyed the life of the living victim. Virgil describes this cruel punishment:
’The living and the dead at his command
Were coupled face to face, and hand
                    
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                    Contributed by Philip Gill on Jan 13, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Martin of Tours was a Roman soldier and a Christian. One cold winter day, as he was entering a city, a beggar stopped him and asked for alms. Martin had no money; but the beggar was blue and shivering with cold, and Martin gave what he had. He took off his soldier’s coat, worn and frayed as it was;
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 21, 2007
                
                
                
                    In the days of the Roman Emperor Nero, there lived and served him a band of soldiers known as the "Emperor’s Wrestlers."  Fine, stalwart men they were, picked from the best and the bravest of the land, recruited from the great athletes of the Roman amphitheater. 
  
In the great amphitheater they
                    
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                    Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 13, 2007
                
                
                
                    The Romans sometimes compelled a captive to be joined face-to-face with a dead body, and to bear it about until the horrible emanating smell destroyed the life of the living victim. Virgil describes this cruel punishment:
’The living and the dead at his command
Were coupled face to face, and hand
                    
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                    SPURGEON ON ROMANS 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23).
C.H. Spurgeon said about this verse, "It is a Christian proverb, a golden
                    
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                    Contributed by Steven Chapman on Mar 26, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Francois Fenelon, a seventeenth century Roman Catholic said this about prayer:
	Tell God all that is on your heart, as one unloads one’s heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 16, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In his introductory notes to the book of Romans Chuck Swindoll says "when the late Donald Barnhouse began his ministry at Tenth Street Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, he stepped into the pulpit the first Sunday morning and preached from the first verse of Romans 1. 	He arrived the second
                    
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                    Contributed by David Fox on Nov 13, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Of thirty Roman emperors, governors of provinces and others in high office, who distinguished themselves by their zeal and bitterness in persecuting the early Christians, one became speedily deranged after some atrocious cruelty, one was slain by his own son, one became blind, the eyes of one
                    
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