Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Nov 19, 2002
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Harriet Martineau was an atheist. One morning she & a Christian friend stepped out into the glories of a beautiful fall morning. As Harriet saw the brilliant sun peaking through the haze, & the frost on the meadow, & the brightly colored leaves making their way lazily to the ground, she was filled
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 9, 2004
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Whereas “belief” suggests bare opinion, “faith,” whether in a car, a …medicine, a protégé, a doctor, a marriage partner, or what have you, is a matter of treating the person or thing as trustworthy and committing yourself accordingly. The same is true of faith in God, and in a far-reaching way.
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“The early Latin writer, Tertullian of Carthage, declared that the one thing that converted him to Christianity was not the arguments they gave him, because he could find a counterpoint for every argument they would present. “But they demonstrated something I didn’t have. The thing that
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Jim Burns wrote in CHRISTIANITY TODAY, “Compassion is one of the most important character traits we can nurture in our children. Yet our culture encourages selfishness. If we want our children to develop servant hearts, we need to give them opportunities to serve. Fortunately, teenagers are usually
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Contributed by Neil Partington on May 24, 2005
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The element H2O (water) has three unique forms.
Water can be in the form of a liquid, the form we see coming out of the kitchen faucet.
It can be in the form of a solid, like ice.
And it can be in the form of a gas, when water boils.
Whether it’s a gas, a solid, or a liquid- it’s
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 10, 2005
A surgeon at the Baptist Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, talked realistically about economizing. The minimum daily wage there is less than the hourly wage here in our country. He said: “We discovered a long time ago that you could sew up people with nylon fishing line. I found that
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Contributed by Glenn Robertson on Nov 16, 2005
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Oswald Chambers once said,
“We trample the blood of the Son of God if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only explanation for the forgiveness of God... is the death of Jesus Christ... There is absolute reinstatement into God by the death of Jesus Christ and by no
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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One Sunday in a Midwest city, a young child was "acting up "during the morning worship hour. The parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the pew but were losing the battle. Finally, the father picked the little fellow up and walked sternly up the aisle on his way out. Just before
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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Two women who were having lunch in an elegant hotel were approached by a mutual friend who asked the occasion for the meal.
One lady replied, “We are celebrating the birth of my baby boy.”
“But where is he?” inquired the friend.
“Oh,” said the mother, “you didn’t think I’d
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2006
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Divorce used to be taboo in Asia, but no longer. In the last 20 years in China divorce rates have doubled. Divorce rates in South Korea rival those in Britain and Denmark. India’s divorce rate has increased in the last 10 years to 11 per 1,000 marriages. In Japan, there is a divorce
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
Public Acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years. On three specific issues - allowing gays to serve openly in the military, adoption by homosexual couples and legalizing gay marriage - opposition has fallen considerably in the past decade, though each issue
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i. Tadlock states, ‘The loss of perspective is another cost of hurry sickness. Perspective means a balanced way of seeing things-the capacity to see people or things in their relationship to each other. You see things as they are rather than in some distorted manner. It’s hard to
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 4, 2007
I got a picture in my mind from the Lord on the way back from preaching this at McLuney. As believers we have in our hands either healing salve or a bottle of rubbing alcohol. And as we interact with hurting people we either comfort them with salve, or we throw alcohol on their wounds. One makes
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Nov 2, 2007
Illustration: Life
Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. Perhaps we cannot feel that we will leave the world much different than we found it, but each of us has had some influence, affected some life, and in some way can leave the world a better
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
College Students, including young women, are far more accepting of pornography than their parents, a shift related to easy access to Internet porn. Most young women in the study said they personally did not use it, but nearly half said viewing X-rated material was an acceptable way to express
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
Drop The Weight of Sin
If that is your attitude then you misunderstand the power and the effects of sin.
•Sin will always cost you more than you really want to pay.
•always take you further than you really want to go.
•always stay longer than you want it to
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Contributed by Edwin Garvin on Sep 3, 2008
Once Winston Churchill was sitting on a platform waiting to speak to a large crowd gathered to hear him. The chairman of the event leaned over and said, "Isn’t it exciting, Mr. Churchill, that all these people came just to hear you speak?" Winston Churchill responded, "It is quite flattering, but
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