Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 19, 2010
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BLOTS AND BLEMISHES
In 2 Peter 2:13-14, false and immoral teachers are called "blemishes."
Some of you are teenagers, but those of us who are older can remember the blessings of acne. There were two pimples that were particularly embarrassing: a large one on the tip of you nose that made you look
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 11, 2010
No wonder the people wept when they heard the message! (The Hebrew word Bochim means “weepers.”) However, their sorrow was because of the consequences of their sins and not because the wickedness of their sins had convicted them. It was a shallow and temporary sorrow that never led them to true
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Dec 2, 2020
“W. S. Plumer said, “We never see sin aright until we see it as against God. All sin is against God in this sense: that it is His law that is broken, His authority that is despised, His government that is set at naught Pharaoh and Balaam, Saul and Judas each said, ‘I have sinned’ which is only
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jul 22, 2002
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The final picture of God’s love for us through Jesus Christ comes for a story told by the late Pastor Louis Valbracht as he relates an event in his life.
He says:
I remember when I returned from over seas at the end of W.W. II, I was met by a nearly-three-year-old daughter whom I hadn’t seen
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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St. Augustine once said, “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men angels.”
I would change that by saying, “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men acceptable before God.”
Paul W. Powell, the former President of the Annuity
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 8, 2008
“Gracious Father, I humbly beseech thee for thy Holy Catholic Church; fill it with all truth, in all truth with all peace. Where it is corrupt, purge it; where it is in error, direct it; where it is superstitious, rectify it; where anything is amiss, reform it; where it is right, strengthen and
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Contributed by John Perry on May 15, 2010
There was a story about a man who died & when they were winding up his estate it was discovered that in his will he wanted his estate left to the devil! Since the estate involved a property the executors of the will were at a loss as to how they would leave real estate to the devil.
After some
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I could never believe in God if it were not for the Cross. In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I turn to that lonely, twisted, tortured figure on the cross—nails through hands and feet, back lacerated, limbs wrenched, brow bleeding from thorn-pricks, mouth
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On Sunday, October 16, 2022 my daughter, aged 25, ran her first marathon – the Toronto Waterfront marathon. Though I’m currently living 3000 kms away in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada – I was there at the race to cheer her on.
I was not prepared for the emotional intensity of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 22, 2002
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PREDICTIONS OF HIS 2ND COMING:
Earliest known prediction by Tichonius 381 A.D.; Then 500 A.D. by Hippolytus (170-236). Later, predictions surrounded the 1st millennium:
1000 A.D., 1009 A.D., & 1033 A.D. were popular.
1533 A.D. was agreed upon by both Michael Stiefel (1486-1567) a friend of
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Contributed by K M Srinivas on Oct 10, 2017
On a Sunday morning, as I was driving to Church; my 2yr old daughter asked me to play her favorite songs. I inserted the CD, but nothing played on the car's music system. I told my daughter, the CD is not working. She replied, you put it in wrongly, its upside down. In my ego, I smirked and
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Gov Pritzker (Illinois) gave the 2023 Commencement Address at North Eastern University
"… Whenever we see someone who doesn't look like us, or sound like us, or act like us or love like us, or live like us - the first thought that crosses almost everyone's brain is rooted in either
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Contributed by Steven Dow on Sep 18, 2002
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ALL IN TUNE
“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all turned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers [meeting]
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 5, 2001
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THE BIG RETURN ON FAITHFULNESS
It was a stormy night in Birmingham, England, and Hudson Taylor was to speak at a meeting at the Severn Street schoolroom. His hostess assured him that nobody would attend on such a stormy night, but Taylor insisted on going. "I must go even if there is no one but
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