Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2002
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FREED FROM DEATH- COMMUNION MEDITATION
Paul Lee Tan writes about a horrible Roman practice:
"The Romans sometimes compelled a captive to be joined face-to-face with a dead body, and to bear it about until the horrible effluvia [vapors] destroyed the life of the living victim. Virgil describes
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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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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 17, 2008
Martin Luther said to Erasmus:
"Mere human reason can never comprehend how God is good and merciful; and therefore you make yourself a god of your own fancy, who hardens nobody, condemns nobody, pities everybody. You cannot comprehend how a just God can condemn those who are born in sin, and
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Contributed by Paul Searight on Aug 24, 2010
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GRACE AND THE BOOK
Dorothy Sayers wrote, "If men will not understand the meaning of judgment, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace."
IF you don’t realize what you could have faced at the judgment - what your sins really deserved - you’ll never appreciate the
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 15, 2012
QUOTE John Newton:
• “I am not what I could be,
• I am not what 1 should be,
• But I am not what I used to be"
• How imperfect and deficient I am!
• I am not what I wish to be,
• Although I abhor that which is evil and would cleave to what is good.
• I am not what I hope to be,
• But soon
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 27, 2026
[322]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - UNTETHERED WICKEDNESS HAS SPAWNED ITSELF
We know we live in a wicked world. We know our old fallen nature is wicked. It is just the way we are and confirmed by David – {{Psalm 51:5 “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.”}}
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