John Howard Yoder talks about the person of Christ and his lordship over all our lives when he writes: “Christians begin to deny their Lord when they admit that there are certain realms of life in which it would be inappropriate to bring Christ’s rule to bear. Of course, non-Christians will
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Methodist
Contributed by Tim Richards on Sep 3, 2005
The famous preacher John Killinger & his wife attended a small country funeral where the pastor got up & for most of the 15 minute sermon talked about the horrors of hell & how tragic it was that the deceased was probably burning there at that very moment. When they left John complained & his wife
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Baptist
Contributed by Peter Bines on Sep 22, 2005
John Newton wrote to a young minister advising that God leads his people through distresses, including a sense of their sinfulness. And His purpose? To: ’…preserve in you a due sense of your own unworthiness, and to convince you, that your
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Oct 11, 2005
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Quoting the English preacher John Daniel Jones: He lived from 1865-1942, this is from his sermon The Sovereignty of God
In our absorption in the thought of God as Father, we have almost lost sight of the fact that He is the Holy Sovereign, ruling the world in righteousness. The result has been
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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John Maxwell also notes this about the term “filled with the Holy Spirit” – “Leaders can never empower anyone else until they are first supernaturally empowered themselves…Whenever someone is filled with the Holy Spirit,
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jul 27, 2006
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John Pierpont died a failure. In 1866, ar the age of 81, he came to the end of his days as a government clerk in Washington, D.C., with a long string of personal defeats.
Things began well enough. He graduated from Yale, which his grandfather had helped found and chose education as his
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 4, 2005
John Wesley had a great contemporary in God’s service in the evangelical revival in the 18th century. His name was George Whitfield. They were great friends from their days at Oxford but were divided in their theology. Wesley was Arminian but Whitfield followed Calvin and there was some
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Baptist
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 24, 2006
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John N. Oswalt, professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages, Asbury Theological Seminary (Wilmore, Kentucky): “Isaiah calls to mind historic events which would give credence to the eschatological [last times, end times, judgement] hope. Gideon and his people, faced by an oppressive horde,
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Salvation Army
Contributed by John Shearhart on Jan 21, 2007
John Phillips writes, “Counterfeit love is [a] worthless coin in the kingdom of God.” (Phillips 1969, 196)
Phillips, John. Exploring Romans: An
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Contributed by John Price on Mar 9, 2007
— John Osteen said “It’s great to be young and dream the dream, but it’s better to be old and
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Pentecostal
Contributed by John Price on Mar 9, 2007
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John Maxwell said in His Book the Success Journey “A dream without a positive attitude produces a daydreamer. A positive attitude without a dream produces a pleasant person who can’t progress. A dream together with a
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Shannon Lewis on Apr 3, 2007
“Dr. John Geddie went to Aneityum in 1848 and worked there for God for 24 years. On the tablet erected to his memory these words are inscribed:
When he landed, in 1848, there were
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John Maxwell tells the story of two shoe salesmen who were sent to a remote Island to sell shoes. After arriving, the first salesman called the home office back in Chicago and told them that he would be returning the next day because no one on the Island even wore shoes. The second salesman arrived
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John Bevere states, “However (eternity), it’s not just a matter of ceaseless time, as it is not subject to time. Eternity transcends time. To speak of eternity in terms of merely perpetual duration is to miss the full picture. To capture the best view of eternity, we must look at God Himself. He is
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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John Wesley is quoted as saying,.In essentials unity,in non-essentials
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