Bill Hybels states this about prayer from his book Too Busy Not To Pray: “From birth we have been learning the rules of self-reliance as we strain and struggle to achieve self-sufficiency. Prayer flies in the face of those deep-seated values. It is an assault on human autonomy, an indictment of
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Contributed by Kerry O'neill on Mar 12, 2010
Minnesota Crime Commission…
"Every baby starts life as a little savage. He is completely selfish and self-centered. He wants what he wants when he wants it: his bottle, his mother's attention, his playmate's toys, his uncle's watch, or whatever. Deny him these and he seethes with rage and
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Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 2, 2009
SHEPHERDLESS SHEEP
How pitiful shepherdless sheep are! Shepherdless sheep become easy prey for wolves, coyotes, and other predators. They can’t outrun them. They can’t outfight them. And what wolf would be scared off by a bleating: baaa? Sheep are left torn and bloodied and dead without a
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 24, 2002
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THE WRONG GUY
Determined to avenge the assault of their young fourteen year old girlfriend, ten young people raced away from the hospital with a description of her assailant: an Hispanic man driving a red vehicle. Then by deception, the group of vigilantes lured young Leonel Cifuenies, a
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Contributed by Nigel Heath on Aug 12, 2009
Philosophical arguments can be very confusing and also very convincing.
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RC Sproul quotes some research that reveals: ‘Over 90% of students entering college in USA are convinced of, and committed to the relativity of truth’ = That there is no objective reality.
What is actually being
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more
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Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
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Elizabeth Dole, NC Senator and former presidential candidate, said, “Life is not just a few years to spend on self-indulgence and career advancement. It is a privilege, a responsibility,
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Michael West on Apr 2, 2008
To be set free from ourselves is the greatest freedom we can ever have!
For me it took dying to self, growing up with real compassion
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Our unwillingness to forgive when weve been deeply hurt breeds self-pity and bitterness. If you will learn and experience Gods love and forgiveness through Jesus,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 7, 2004
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THE STEWARDSHIP OF LIFE
Elizabeth Dole, former Secretary of Transportation & Presidential candidate said: Life is not just a few years to spend on self-indulgence and career advancement. It is a privilege, a
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Contributed by Dave Kinney on Jan 10, 2009
Charles Krauthammer also states, "We're now at the dawn of an era in which an extreme fanatical religious ideology, undeterred by the usual calculations of prudence and self-preservation,
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"We need to urge a broadening of the scope of reason. In applying methods of historical analysis, no criteria should be adopted which would rule out in advance God’s
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Catholic
Contributed by Kevin Taylor on Oct 28, 2001
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George Barna’s Research Group has conducted several nationwide surveys on this subject . This survey information, taken from telephone interviews with a nationwide random sample of 1002 adults, was conducted in February 2000.
(a) For instance, 9 out of 10 adults describe themselves as being
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