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"If God be for us, who can be against us?"
In the English parliament back at the beginning of the 19th century, William Wilberforce led the charge to abolish slavery in Great Britan. He fought and fought to no avail. After a while, he decided that he was going to give up and move on to another
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"Humanism is mans rebellion against and alienation from God. This is mans slavery. How can that which produced mans slavery set him free from it? All mans efforts to possess a self-contained freedom, to find the meaning of life by his own wisdom, to build a worthy
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The Complete Bible Commentary argues that sanctification is found in three steps which are "(1), know (vs. 3); (2) reckon [KJV] (vs. 11); and (3) yield (vs. 13)". (Edward G.
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Mar 10, 2001
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I recently saw the film of the American classic ’Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and realised afresh that slavery is such a terrible institution, a blot on the human race. It has been a source of puzzlement why Paul did not condemn it outright, for here was his opportunity to do so. And yet he remained
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Baptist
Contributed by Danny Presswood on Jan 26, 2009
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In his book, INVITATION TO THE FEAST, Danny Bush says “At the Passover meal with His disciples, directly before His death and resurrection, Jesus changed the meaning of that supper from a reminder of escape from slavery in Egypt to a reminder of the sacrifice He made that brings freedom from the
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 8, 2010
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SPIRIT: A LIFE CHANGING FORCE
There are those who think the Spirit is a thing. They view Him as a lifeless blob that God sets inside of us that doesn’t physically affect us during our lives.
They tend to view God’s Spirit like a coin you put in a pop machine or a candy machine. The coin goes in
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln presented what came to be known as the Emancipation Proclamation, an official document condemning human slavery. Abraham Lincoln, realizing that slavery is completely against human dignity, officially abolished it from the United States on
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
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Worldliness is not only doing what is forbidden but also wishing it were possible to do it. One of its distinctives is mental slavery to illegitimate pleasure. Worldliness twists
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Frederick Douglass who grew up as a slave in Maryland in the early nineteenth century and experienced slavery’s every brutality. He was taken from his mother when he was only an infant. For years as a child, all he had to eat was runny corn meal dumped in a trough that kids fought to scoop out with
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Adventist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Congregation Finances 57% of U.S. congregations report their financial situation is good or excellent vs. 66% in ’00. Financial health of congregations varies by faith community. 48% of Old-line Protestant congregations report their financial situation is good or
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