Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 6, 2009
REAL FAITH
The classic test an atheist will give to prove there is no God is this: "If there is a God, let him kill me right now". When nothing happens, they will confidently claim, "See there is no God, for I am still alive and well." Now if we were to ask the atheist, "What if someone came up to
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Contributed by Richard Burkey on Jun 7, 2005
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J. I. Packer wrote, “The church is not to be like a bus, where passengers sit quietly and let someone else do the driving, but
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking ones work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The
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Contributed by David Moore on Feb 7, 2008
“To declare that a thing shall come to be, long before it is in being, and then bring about the accomplishment of that very thing according to the same
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 21, 2007
The Shepherd Psalm does speak against anxiety, worry, and fear. It calls for trust in God. Here’s an example of the wrong kind of faith.
Are you familiar with the Broom Hilda comic strip? Anybody ever seen it?
For an illustration of mindless faith I like the conversation that takes place between
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Pentecostal
Illustration:
While I was helping to clean the church, I encountered a 12 year-old boy who was working out his court sentence for theft by doing community service. He asked me what bad thing I had done to be working there. “Why son, I didn’t do anything wrong. I’m just helping out the church. What
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