"It would require much exotic calculation to deny that the single most powerful figure—not merely in these two millenniums but in all of human history—has been Jesus of Nazareth… A serious argument can be made that no one else’s life has proved remotely as
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Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 19, 2002
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MAN OF THE MILLENIUM
“The memory of any stretch of years eventually resolves to a list of names, and one of the useful ways of recalling the past two millenniums is by listing the people who acquired great power. Muhammad, Catherine the Great, Marx, Gandhi, Hitler, Roosevelt, Stalin and Mao come
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Feb 5, 2008
One of my instructors in Bible College used to like to say that in the beginning God said, “Let there be light!” and the angels were blinking their eyes for a millennium.
He’d say, “I don’t know how theologically
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Denomination:
Orthodox
Contributed by Bart Leger on Feb 8, 2005
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George Bernard Shaw is perhaps most renowned as a free thinker and liberal philosopher. In his last writings we read, "The science to which I pinned my faith is bankrupt. Its counsels, which should have established the millennium, led, instead, directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them
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Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 8, 2006
According to the Israeli press, psychiatrists are expecting an increase in a condition the have labeled, “Jerusalem Syndrome.” For many years mental heath workers have treated tourists who become emotionally overwhelmed by a visit to the Holy Land. Although some are only temporarily caught up in an
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
Popcorn Trends Trend-spotter Faith Popcorn labels 2000 and beyond the F.A.I.T.H. millennium: fidelity, activism, inspiration, truth and harmony. Some of her predictions:
· “Spirituality breaks” will become part of the workday.
· Vacations with spiritual themes will become popular.
· Restaurants
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2006
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Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism’s high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 9, 2005
Martin Luther’s preaching aroused the Church from a thousand years’ slumber during the Dark Ages — the devil’s millennium. It is easy to understand why when we discover how Luther preached. He said, “I preach as though Christ was crucified
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Denomination:
Baptist
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Charles Colson writes in his book, How Shall We Live, the solution to the modern day identity crisis of the American Christian. "How do we redeem a culture? How do we rise to the opportunity before us at the start of a new millennium? The answer is simple: from the inside out. From the individual
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Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2006
George Bernard Shaw is perhaps most renowned as a free thinker and liberal philosopher. In his last writings we read, "The science to which I pinned my faith is bankrupt. Its counsels, which should have established the millennium, led, instead, directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 9, 2008
The percentage of women choosing to work outside the home has been flat to down for several years running. Not coincidentally, the number of meals purchased at restaurants per person has stopped growing too, for the longest sustained stretch in the 23 years NPD Group has tracked the number. The
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Contributed by John Putty on Apr 13, 2011
SIX THOUSAND YEARS
Early Christian writers held that at the end of 6,000 years of history, Christ would return and reign for 1,000 years (referred to as the Millennium). These included Barnabas (c. A.D. 100), Justin Martyr and Irenaeus (c. A.D. 150), Lactantius (c. A.D. 325), and Methodius, Bishop
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Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 31, 2001
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Carlyle Fielding Ste, How Long Will You Limp?: "Too many churches today are devoid of the Spirit of Pentecost because they are dry and stale, where people are in a stupor; where worship services are wooden and so scripted that they are hollow; where the preaching is dull and flat; where the
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 24, 2006
"Where did the Grandma of yesterday go? The Grandma that took all the kids to the show; who stopped by to chat & before we could ask it; had tackled the laundry that spilled from the basket.
Who offered to mend and made the girls dresses; and who pitched in to help when the toddler made messes;
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Denomination:
Christian Church
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
Although 4 of 5 teens claim they are Christian, only 1 in 4 also claims to be “absolutely committed” to the Christian faith.” That is only about half the percentage found among adults. Although an impressive 70% of all teens are engaged in some church-related effort in a typical week, only about
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
A highly-publicized landmark court ruling in Japan at the new millennium mandated the Japanese government to pay $15 million to 127 plaintiffs for the government’s discriminatory Leprosy Prevention Law that was enacted in 1907. New York Times commented on the case: “Despite popular belief, it is
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