Contributed by Timothy Smith on May 24, 2006
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“I am trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say, A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said
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Contributed by Cameron Smith on Jun 3, 2006
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There was a story I read the other day, about 2 friends who were sitting in a pub watching the eleven-o’clock news at night. A report comes on about a man threatening to jump from the 20th floor of a downtown building One friend turns to the other and says, "I’ll bet you ten bucks the guy doesn’t
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 19, 2006
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"There is also a mimetic aspect to the sufferings of Christ. Peter tells us that Christ in His passion left us an example to follow in His steps (I Pet.2:21).
The Bible makes it clear, however, that pain and suffering are not to be sought after for their own sake. That would indicate a
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1. George Barna notes, “In the 1970’s “seeker churches’ made a strong theoretical argument for the importance of encouraging people to feel no obligation to toe a Bible to church. Their goal was to make visitors feel welcome and comfortable by alleviating the need to locate a Bible, by diminishing
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i. Barna notes “Our most recent surveys indicate that about half of all adults listen to preaching or Bible teaching in a typical week; one out of three read the Bible; one out of ten study the Bible during the week; fewer than one out of every twenty-five devote themselves to memorizing at least
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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I close with a story with a story from the life of the great British preacher, Brownlow North. He had lived a wicked life before he was saved. One evening as he entered a church where he was to preach, a stranger walked up to him in a hurried manner, and said, "Here is a letter for you of great
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"You cannot force the growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force slow-growing trees. That is the economy
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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That there was no room in the inn was symbolic of what was to happen to Jesus. The only place there
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The cross God now sends you he has considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with loving arms and weighed with His own hands to see
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