Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Bishop Gerland Kennedy of California tells the true story of a shipwreck off the coast of Evanston, Ill. Many years ago. The students of Northwestern University came to the rescue. One student, Edward Spenser, personally saved the lives of 17 persons that day. Years later a reporter was writing
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Contributed by Chris Tiller on Nov 15, 2005
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(Source: Gonzalez, Justo, The Story of Christianity, Volume 1, HarperSanFrancisco, 1984.)
In the year 155 A.D., Polycarp, the bishop of Smyrna was arrested. The proconsul tried to persuade him to recant and save himself. Surely given his advanced age it would be better for him to avoid torture
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 16, 2008
RIGHTEOUSNESS CREDIT
The meltdown in world wide economic markets is seen by many economists over the issue of the sub-prime mortgage failure in the United States. Basically, it revolves around giving credit to those who did not deserve it.
You may have received in the mail those tantalizing
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Contributed by Dennis Lawrence on May 12, 2003
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. “The 1989 Armenian earthquake needed only four minutes to flatten the nation and kill thirty thousand people. Moments after that deadly tremor ceased, a father raced to an elementary school to save his son. When he arrived, he saw that the building had been leveled. Looking at the mass of stones
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Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Nov 18, 2006
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Some years ago the late Dr. Donald G. Barnhouse was traveling from Alabama to Florida. Feeling a tire going flat, he pulled to the side of the road and inwardly groaned at the thought of removing hundreds of books in the trunk, so as to reach his spare tire. Seeing a jeep coming over the hill, he
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DAVID C. PACK gives us the following thoughts to ponder about Predestination.
1. “Is this true? Is this what the Bible actually teaches when it makes reference to predestination? Did God actually pre-plan every sin, every act of immorality and every crime that has ever been committed? Is God the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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IF IT'S NOT TRUE...
The fact is, if Jesus Christ died on the cross and did not rise again from the dead, everything we live for and believe as Christians means absolutely nothing, Ill. 1 Cor. 15:12-20.
1. v.13 Christ Is Not Risen
a. He died in vain, Rom. 4:24; 5:10
b. He lied, Mt. 16:21;
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Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jun 28, 2006
I am struck by an idea of G. K. Chesterton. We are unworthy to receive any gift at all from God, and we are unaware of our unworthiness until we realize that we are unworthy of even the gift of a dandelion. This weed we would like to remove from our yard grows naturally and completely
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Mennonite
Contributed by Chris Jordan on Aug 29, 2006
QUOTE: “Often hobbling through our church doors on Sunday morning comes grace on crutches – sinners still unable to throw away their false supports and stand upright in the freedom of the children of God. Yet, their mere presence at church on Sunday morning is a flickering candle representing a
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Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 28, 2006
I was there in the delivery room when my children were born. I remember the doctor delivering them, the nurse cleaning them up, and checking them out. They were helpless, weak, utterly dependant on the good graces of the people in charge of their care. They remained helpless for years, though
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Oct 14, 2008
We are not meant to live in darkness. We were created to live in the light—in God’s light. I worked with a young lady several years ago whose boyfriend surrendered to the darkness. He blew his brains out with a shotgun just as she entered their bedroom. It was devastating. I knew the guy.
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Dietrich Bonheoffer once asked this question of us,
"Do we understand that instead we get a messiah who gives us power all right, but it’s a whole new kind of power, it’s THE POWER OF SUFFERING LOVE
It’s a power that looks me in the eye, forgives my sin, my fear, my anger, my resentment, my
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
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Andrew Murray was going through a personal trial. One morning while he was eating breakfast, his hostess told him there was a woman downstairs that was going through a great trial and wanted to know if he had any advice for her. Murray handed her a piece of paper he had been writing on and said,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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A pastor had gathered a selected group of workers to train them to witness for Jesus. A young worker was complaining to a veteran caller about one of the people he had visited. "I’ tried to tell him about Jesus, I tried to tell him about the love Jesus had for Him. I tried to tell him that Jesus
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