Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Aug 6, 2006
C.H. Spurgeon claimed that 98% of the people he met-including criminals he visited in prison-told him that they believed the Bible to be true. But the vast majority had never made a personal, life changing commitment
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 30, 2006
Robert Bork, judge and former nominee for the Supreme Court, is credited with this limerick that puts it so well:
God’s plan made a hopeful beginning,
But man spoiled his chances by sinning.
We trust that the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 15, 2010
CHURCH-HOPPING STATS
Surveys show that as much as 85 percent of church membership growth is made up of people who church-hop. Other surveys show that there has been no real growth in church membership in recent
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 18, 2010
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PROVIDENCE
The word 'Providence' is made up of two words:
* "Pro" means "Before" and "Video" means "to see";
* The word 'Providence' simply means "to see before"
* So when we talk about the
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Brethren
Contributed by Alan Perkins on Jan 12, 2003
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[Power of the tongue]
At a birthday party for Strom Thurmond, Senator Trent Lott was paying tribute to the man, and he made this statement, "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 29, 2004
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Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish theologian & philosopher, told this parable, which he called “The Wild Duck of Denmark;
A wild duck was flying northward with his mates across Europe during the springtime. En route, he happened to land in a barnyard in Denmark, where he quickly made friends with the
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Contributed by Bruce Willis on Dec 18, 2006
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Sometime ago a man who was Pastor in a large church, very successful in everything he did except one thing – the most important thing. He was failing in his marriage. The reason was, because his wife could see through him. She knew what he was really like. Not what he was like up in the pulpit,
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 17, 2009
Our room steward, Denny, was so nice and seemed to genuinely show concern and respect to our family. It was amazing. So as I thought about this issue of respect, which we are going to talk about today, I also began to wonder if respect can be bought.
How many of you have been on a cruise? This
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bruce Lee on Feb 13, 2018
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That Sounds Like a Cross to Me
“Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” Mark 8:34
A little boy was playing in the yard. He fell and scraped his elbow. It was bleeding a
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
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Charles Van Gorder was a doctor with the 101st Airborne on June 6, 1944. Captain Gorder and many other doctors were going to do something new on that day. They flew behind enemy lines in gliders made out of tubing, plywood and canvass. Many crashed in the French fields and were severely wounded
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Wesleyan
Contributed by A. David Hart on Apr 13, 2008
the law was to remind us that we were guilty for violating that law, the down side of that was that the law did not provide a satisfactory pardon for anyone who broke the law. So the law has its limitations. I am reminded of something that recently happened to my older brother. He is a long
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Baptist
Contributed by Jesse Roncales on Mar 4, 2010
A little evidence of God's gracious dealing to men is shown in the wonders and order of natures.
Our very own planet has a balance atmosphere. It is made up of 78% Nitrogen, 21 % oxygen, and 1% lots of other
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Assembly Of God
THE BIBLE'S ON THE MOON
"Fly Me to the Moon" was a song written by Bart Howard and made popular by Frank Sinatra.
If we could fly to the moon, we would discover there is a microfilm packet containing Gen. 1:1 in sixteen
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 5, 2009
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POPULAR IDEAS OF JESUS
As we consider the risk of following Jesus, we must acknowledge the same thing; we must acknowledge that Jesus is THE Christ, not some popularized version we hear about today.
In a posting just this last June, Kevin DeYoung, in his Restless and Reformed blog, describes
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