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E. Stanley Jones said, “If you don’t surrender to Christ, you’ll surrender to chaos.”(2)
(2) Rick Warren. The Purpose Driven Life. Zonervan
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How do we repent? I want to show you a great example of repentance from a recent film. Jim Carey, in the film Bruce Almighty, finally comes to the end of himself and surrenders to God in prayer. His prayer is a good model to follow. (Show clip) As Bruce kneels he says to God, “You win. I’m
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Methodist
Contributed by Bruce Ball on Aug 21, 2004
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A few minutes ago, I told you we were chosen by God. That is wonderful, but being chosen by itself does not help us much. That is only the first step. After God chooses us, there is something that we must do. We must accept it. Let me explain about being chosen and then accepting that choice.
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"I can’t promise you forever, but I can promise today." A Hallmark Card
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Baptist
Contributed by Pat Cook on Nov 15, 2004
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Do you ever feel like Robert Orben who said, “Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that’s not
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Baptist
Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 12, 2005
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Why do you follow Jesus? Patrick Morley has some important things to say about our answer to this question. "The American gospel has evolved into a gospel of addition without subtraction. It is a belief that we can add Christ to our lives, but not subtract sin. It is a change in
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Church Of God
Contributed by Greg Buchner on Mar 28, 2005
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Well, let me tell you a true story about a young fireman. In the midst of a blaze he stepped forward and volunteered to go rescue a little baby, even though the chief had said that the flames were too strong and the building too unstable.
As soon as that young fireman was able to get that little
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Methodist
Contributed by David Thompson on Jul 30, 2005
Those of you who have sat close to me know that I can’t carry a tune, my tones are off. It makes my mind wander and probably yours too, if you sit very close to me.
I have to remind myself that it’s not the sound that comes from my lips, it’s
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 22, 2005
Did you know that we spend roughly 68 times more money caring for the average felon than on a church’s ministry to a spiritually hungry child. From George Barna, Transforming
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Charismatic
Contributed by Glenn Teal on Dec 10, 2005
Ever watch your kids – maybe they don’t see you and they do something wrong like on America’s Funniest Home Videos. There was this sweet little girl maybe 4 or 5 who is video taped stealing from the cookie jar and is interupted cookie in hand. At the moment of her getting caught she screams at
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Lynn Malone on Feb 6, 2006
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You see, we’ve all heard stories of people who lucked up and found something hidden away in an attic that turned out to be really valuable, and we figure, if it could happen to them, it could happen to us. We hear stories like Ted and Virginia from Arizona. There story was found on Antiques
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Methodist
Contributed by Pat Cook on Feb 7, 2006
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Let me tell you about C.S.Lewis, the author of the Chronicles of Narnia. In 1952 he had been writing to one of his fans an American woman named Joy Gresham, a recent convert to Christianity, and who had been a Communist Jew. She was also going through a hard divorce. He autographed her copy of his
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 20, 2006
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Lee Iacocca said, “No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to
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Christian/Church Of Christ