Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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Noted Bible teacher E. Schuyler English told of Michael Billester, a Bible distributor who visited a small hamlet in Poland shortly before World War II. Billester gave a Bible to a villager, who was converted by reading it. The new believer then passed the Book on to others. The cycle of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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Noted Bible teacher E. Schuyler English told of Michael Billester, a Bible distributor who visited a small hamlet in Poland shortly before World War II. Billester gave a Bible to a villager, who was converted by reading it. The new believer then passed the Book on to others. The cycle of
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
FOUR FREEDOMS
In January 1941, when the flames of war were consuming Europe and the Far East, President Roosevelt addressed Congress. In that address, he said some things about freedom that has echoed down through the years.
The address, now known as the "Four Freedoms" address, contained these
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Church Of God
Contributed by Ned Bartlebaugh on Oct 21, 2007
The magi carried gifts from afar and came to worship the newborn baby. King Herod said he wanted to worship the baby. Though Herod and the magi uttered the same word, worship, their intentions were different. King Herod did not plan to worship the child. He wanted to be all
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Baptist
Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
Marjorie Thompson makes an interesting point when she says, ‘As people become hungrier for spiritual nurture, they often become more dissatisfied with their own tradition of corporate worship. Part of the problem is that average person in the pew has little say over how worship is planned, much
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Church Of God
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Is it really possible to be in love with God? Gloria Gather answers this question for us by noting:
His Love ... Reaching
Right from the beginning God's love has reached, and from the beginning man has refused to understand. But love went on reaching, offering itself.
Love offered the eternal
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Dana Chau on Sep 24, 2001
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In the September 21, 2001 San Francisco Chronicle, the headline read, "Freedom and Fear Are at War." The truth is fear is at war with many aspects of life, not just with freedom. Fear wars against our health. Fear wars against making good
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
Judson Cornwall was a prominent teacher in the charismatic renewal in the sixties, seventies and eighties. He said a major facet of Israelite worship was gift giving. Three times God discussed the compulsory feast that His covenant people were to attend and all three times He commanded that they
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Pentecostal
Contributed by C Jordan on Sep 7, 2007
In The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren makes this great statement, “If you have ever said, ‘I didn’t get anything out of worship today,’ you worshipped for
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 25, 2007
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Since 1971 Memorial Day has been observed annually on the last Monday in May. The purpose is to honor the nation’s military personnel killed in wartime.
The holiday was called Decoration Day at first, because people decorated soldiers’ graves with flowers and flags on that day. Today it is
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 31, 2007
I’ve been set afire by Ed Stetzer’s book, Comeback Churches. He did a study that examined 324 churches from 10 denominations that recently experienced renewed growth by conversion after a significant period of plateau and/or decline.
Not all comeback churches were contemporary. Many were blended.
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Stephan Brown on Mar 11, 2002
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In warfare, there is always an objective. In many wars, the objective is land. For example, in the Middle East, Israel and the Palestinians are fighting because they both want to have the same land. In Afghanistan we’re fighting because we want to destroy the power base of terrorism. Hitler fought
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