Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Stop procrastinating I have only to see those words and Im jerked into starting immediately, because I know only too well from personal experience
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Apr 3, 2010
I remember seeing some shorts to a movie once where a millionaire agrees to pay a couple a million dollars if the wife will sleep with him for one night. What would you do? The answer to that question tests your character. Impatience is often willing to sleep with the enemy to achieve it's
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
Theologian A.W.Tozer said “Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.”
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 23, 2008
What we see urged in the NT is zeal, which is not quite the same as the fad word "passion" (which implies the necessity of emotional exuberance and is emotionally driven) or "urgency" (which implies a desperate God and is usually guilt driven). Zeal is a spiritually driven energy grounded in a
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Contributed by Chris Jordan on Sep 18, 2008
"We see what is the work of heaven, and we ought to get our hearts tuned up for it, and to long for that world where our praises, as well as
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Contributed by Ruth Hind on Oct 11, 2008
So humility is seeing our own and other peoples worth with a God’s eye view and treating them accordingly. But perhaps the best way to describe humility is to turn to an example, My example is George Carey former Abof C who when he was Vicar of a large Church in Durham which was left open all the
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Episcopal/Anglican
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Buddhism has a story similar to the story Jesus told about the Prodigal Son. In the story Jesus told, the father sees his wayward son, and runs to greet him. The prodigal says he no longer deserves to be considered a son, but the loving father throws a party for him and freely restores him to
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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I heard a story about a little boy that was to have heart surgery. The surgeon sat beside the boy's bed and his parents sat across from him. The surgeon said to the little boy, "Tomorrow morning, I'll open up your heart." The little boy interrupted the surgeon and said;
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 12, 2007
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You see these guys don’t you driving the delivery trucks with the sticker on the back which says How’s my driving telephone 0800 0999. – report if going too fast, driving too reckless – too slow etc . The driver is representing that particular company – it looks bad on them.
The application is
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 2, 2007
One time Jesus mentioned to his disciples that the temple and the other buildings in Jerusalem would be destroyed. The disciples asked Jesus when this would happen. He doesn’t give them a straight answer but one statement he says is: (Mark 13:15 NIV) Let no one on the roof of his house go down
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Apr 17, 2001
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In history, 160 years before the birth of Jesus, there is the story of the Maccabean revolt in Israel. Antiochus IV, King of Syria, had conquered Jerusalem, & he decided to destroy the Jewish religion & make the Jews deny their faith in God. Among the many things he did was to order the people to
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 23, 2007
In More Jesus, Less Religion, Steve Arterburn writes: “Some time ago, I read about the work of a Wycliffe Bible translator in a remote village in Papua New Guinea. When the opening chapters of Genesis were first translated into the native language, the attitude toward women in the tribe changed
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Methodist