Contributed by Vonnie E James on Aug 27, 2008
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Origins of Carnival
The origins of carnival date back to the ancient Greek spring festival in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine. The Romans adopted the celebration with Bacchanalia (feasts in honor of Bacchus, the Roman equivalent to Dionysus), and Saturnalia, where slaves and their masters would
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I am…
BLESSED when I come in and BLESSED when I go out (Deut 28:6)
SAFE wherever I go (Psa 91:11)
REDEEMED from the hand of the enemy (Psa 107:2)
The SALT of the earth (Matt 5:13)
The LIGHT of the world (Matt 5:14)
VALUABLE! (Matt 10:31)
Exercising my AUTHORITY over the enemy (Luke 10:19)
VALUABLE
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Contributed by Paul Clemente on Nov 14, 2022
Genesis 8:1-18 Devotional
v1: Can God forget things? Why or why not? – God IS Omniscient (all knowing), otherwise, He would not be God!
The Hebrew word for “remember" is zakar = to remember, to recall, bring to mind!
v1-3: How did God stop the flooding? – stopped rain from the sky, closed
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 17, 2003
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Let’s look at what Dr. C. Truman Davis* wrote about the price Jesus paid for this indescribable gift
(2 Cor. 9:15):
After the arrest in the middle of the night, Jesus was brought before the Sanhedrin and Caiphus, the High Priest; it is here that the first physical trauma was inflicted. A soldier
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Contributed by Richard White on Feb 18, 2004
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According to church tradition St. Valentine was a priest near Rome in about the year A.D. 270. Now some have rejected the story because of its similarity to that of Paul. At that time the Roman Emperor was imprisoning Christians for not worshipping the Roman gods. During this persecution Valentine
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2003
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"The reality in the first century was that the most intense persecution of the Christian church came, not from the Romans, but from the Jewish community. The Romans and the outside world viewed the Christian Community as merely a small sect of Judaism. Christianity did not spread globally and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2002
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SENT BY GOD
Bill Bright, the founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, in a recent interview told of his most memorable occasion to share the gospel. "I remember as a young believer I felt impressed to call on a man who was a CEO of one of the great fortune 500 companies. As presumptuous as it
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 13, 2023
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Jesus Compared to Melchizedek (Hebrews 7)
11 Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 30, 2004
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Suicidal Rates in America
Persons under 25 accounted for 15% of all suicides in 2000. (From the 1950’s to the late 70’s the suicide rate increased by 200%, and has remained steady since.)
Psychological autopsy studies show that more than 90% of completed suicides had one or more mental
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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SO PERSONAL
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in 1982. In the first 15 years, 54,000 items were left at the Wall. It still takes almost an hour every night, [and much longer on Memorial Day,] to collect all the mementos-a teddy bear, a photo of a soldier's grandchild, a letter from a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 31, 2008
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MOST RESPECTED NAME
When Salvation Army founder William Booth was dying, there were some legal matters to tend to. The lawyer said to Mrs. Booth, "If you can get him to sign these papers the will will be executed much more smoothly." The problem was that he was drifting in and out of
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Contributed by Jeremy Lane on May 15, 2010
One report states that kids are media multi-tasking 29% of the time
31% of kids say they multi-task while doing homework
8-18 year olds are exposed to 7 hours 38 minutes of media per day (with multi-tasking, turns into a total of 10 hours 45 minutes per day)
15-18 year olds spend 1 hour 51
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Contributed by David Owens on Jul 18, 2011
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HEED THE COMMANDS
In July of 1976, Israeli commandos made a daring raid at an airport in Uganda, in which 103 Jewish hostages were freed. In less than 15 minutes, the soldiers had killed all 7 of the kidnappers and set the captives free.
As successful as the rescue was, however, three of the
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