Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
IMAGINARY JESUS
Matt Mikalatos has written a fictional story entitled, "Imaginary Jesus." In that story the main character encounters a wide variety of people who claim to be Jesus, but who actually represent our diverse and ever-changing depictions of who we want Jesus to be and the roles we want
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Contributed by David Tack on Mar 28, 2011
While interpreting things of difficulty, such as eschatological issues, the simpler things of this life and God’s commands should be embraced. Preach the gospel saving message to the lost and desolate, love the Lord your God with all your heart, love humanity with unconditional love; and, strive
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SOUND THEOLOGY
In a Peanuts cartoon Lucy and Linus are staring out the window, watching it rain. Lucy says, "Boy! Look at it pour. What if it floods the whole world?"
Linus, "It won't. In Gen. 9, God promised Noah that would never happen again. The sign of that promise is the rainbow."
Lucy,
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Dec 2, 2012
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Have you ever gone to a doctor and got a prescription?
You take that prescription down to the pharmacy and they sell you the medicine.
Now, have you ever heard of a druggist getting the prescription wrong?
Of course you have.
Why would a pharmacist get it wrong? Well, not because they intended to.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 26, 2002
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Augustine, while puzzling over the doctrine of the Trinity, was walking along the beach one day when he observed a young boy with a bucket, running back and forth to pour water into a little hole. Augustine asked, "What are you doing?" The boy replied, "I’m trying to put the ocean into this hole."
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 22, 2008
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"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife: to preach that the highest form of success comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from
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Contributed by David Whitten on Nov 29, 2001
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Two strangely connected events that occurred in 1865 greatly impact American lives even today.
1) General William Booth founded the Salvation Army and now millions are fed, clothed and given shelter in the name of Jesus. As Booth proclaims "A heart to God and a hand to man".
2) The other event
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Sep 28, 2002
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Strange for us to think of idolatry as being something in the modern world but consider this:
• There are actually people who worship crawling creatures: In a museum in Egypt there is a monument to the scarob beetle.
• The philistines actually worshiped flies. Hindus today won’t swat a fly
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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John Wesley - Heart Strangely Warmed
In May of 1738, John Wesley wrote in his journal: "In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate.Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 22, 2007
With regard to Daneil,I thought it strange that an official of a conquered nation would become an official in the conquering nation. However, I remembered the end of World War II.
Germany was working feverishly with V-1 and V-2 buzz bombs and rockets. They were advanced their capability at that
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Pentecostal
Susan’s mom mentioned a strange story in the Logan County, Ilinois newspaper last week(June ’07). The article said at about 7:15 AM, a man named Cody Rutz stole an Illinois Department of Transportation truck and fled from police southbound on Illinois 121. Police lost sight of him near Mount
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The news on an ordinary day [is] a strange assembly that swoops down on ones life like cousins from Oslo one has never seen before, will never see again, and
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