Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Sep 17, 2008
The God we know and love is not to be portrayed as the Deists would have us believe. A 'god' who is supposed to have made the world much as a watchmaker might make a timepiece
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"If our faith is not relevant to our daily life in the world and in the parish, then it is no use; and if we cannot be Christians in our work, in the neighborhood, in our political decisions, then we had better stop
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adverturous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"He or she who floats with the current, who does not guide himself, according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no real standardssuch a person is a mere article of the worlds furniture a
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The Bet -- Anton Chekhov
We live in a world that knows little about what’s truly valuable. People all around us are pursuing things that have no lasting value. That pursuit is ably treated by Anton Chekhov in his classic short story The Bet. This story gives us great insight into the value system
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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At the lake near my home there was an old tree that was truly majestic. It was 70 feet tall and set right at the water’s edge. It provided shade to generations of fishermen and was home to countless squirrels and birds over the years. In the fall its colorful leaves were glorious to gaze upon. By
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As our Messiah Jesus is coming again to usher in His Millennial reign over the world as our rightful King of Kings and Prince of Peace. Moody Bible Institute publishes the daily devotional guide TODAY IN THE WORD. The devotional for June 19, 1992, contained this observation:
A group of
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Methodist
Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 27, 2009
I am reminded of Herman Melville’s description of the pulpit in Moby Dick. It’s actually a description of a real pulpit in the Whaler’s Chapel that a Jewish friend went out of his way to show me in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It reads:
Its paneled front was in the likeness of a ship’s bluff bows,
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Contributed by Jordon Leblanc on Oct 22, 2006
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The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless...the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a
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Wesleyan
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