Contributed by Tim Adams on Nov 30, 2009
2 Corinthians 7:1,“Let us cleanse ourselves” - that means we would do a good job if we were just as fond of straightening our own selves out as we are to find the faults of others. It is God’s Holy Spirit that will do the work but we must enter in to an active cooperation with God on this matter.
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Mar 18, 2005
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“Aunt Bessie’s Pickled Beets!” 2 Corinthians 7:2-13 Key verse(s): 10:“Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.”
The worst part of doing wrong is being found out. We’ve all been caught doing wrong in life; especially when we
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Lutheran
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Paul said run to win as if winning is everything. It is, but not in the sense that you find in the sports arena. Running to win only makes sense if you’re chasing the right prize.
My daughter, Jen, has a fur-ball with whiskers named Fred. Fred will chase anything that
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United Methodist
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Oct 23, 2004
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“A Green and White Plate!” 2 Corinthians 5: 16-21 Key verse(s): 17: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!.”
“London businessman Lindsay Clegg told the story of a warehouse property he was selling. The building had been empty for months and
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Lutheran
Contributed by Mark Brunner on May 31, 2005
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“A Winning Streak of One!” 2 Corinthians 4:16-17 Key verse(s) 16“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.”
It’s important to make sure that every day of our lives we practice gladness and condition ourselves to finding
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Lutheran
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The culture of the Corinthians said, "Go ahead commit sexual immorality – God won’t mind – God is okay with it." The Corinthian city was evil because they practiced "Sexual immorality in the temple of Aphrodite."
1. It was considered normal!
2. It was considered even a way to honor other
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Robert Galasso on Mar 31, 2002
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Corinthians 13 written by a South African Pioneer:Read the following paraphase of 1
"If I have the language perfectly and speak like a native, and have not His love for them, I am nothing. If I have diplomas and degrees and know all the up-to-date methods, and have not His touch of understanding
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 27, 2003
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1 Corinthians 13 - church version
“If our church could hold services in five languages or our members could speak three, but we didn’t love others, we would be all talk and no action.
If our church really expressed it’s spiritual gifts with wholehearted service and we became spiritual giants, but
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Church Of God
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Mar 20, 2005
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“Passing Through The Shadows!” 1 Corinthians 11:23-34 Key verse(s): 26:“‘For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes’.”
“Smile and the world smiles with you! Cry and you cry alone.” Walking through life with a smile on our faces is something to
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Lutheran
Contributed by Kerry O'neill on May 13, 2006
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There are 2 popular traditions in Africa: drinking tea and playing soccer. However, these traditions are not unique to Africa, but were brought to the continent by the British. Even when it is very hot, each afternoon in many parts of Africa they pause to drink hot tea. Why? Because the British
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 24, 2010
April 2, 2008
North Korean Students Arrested for Reading the Bible
This news is from Free North Korea Broadcasting.
Ten college students in Ham Kyung Book Do Chung, North Korea, were recently investigated and arrested for reading a Bible and watching a video CD about the Bible. According to Free
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 16, 2006
Behavioral studies show that if 2% of a homogeneous group are strongly dedicated to a given cause, and that small minority can eventually move the whole.
Association of
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Aug 26, 2012
13 years ago, there were people running all over the place, buying up food and bottled water and gas and everything else they could think of, just in case something happened with all of that Y2K stuff. They did all of that just in case they were without power, or open food stores for a few days.
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Baptist
Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 5, 2012
There are 2 ways of handling pressure:
One is illustrated by a bathysphere, the miniature submarine used to explore the ocean in places so deep that the water pressure would crush a conventional submarine like an aluminum can. Bathyspheres compensate with plate steel several inches thick, which
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Baptist
THE WOMAN AND ACTS 2:38
An elderly woman had just returned to her home from a church service when she was startled by an intruder. As she caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables, she yelled, "Stop--Acts 2:38!" (..repent, turn from your sin..".).
The burglar stopped dead
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Acts 2 can be divided into 4 main events all related to the arrival of the Holy Spirit:
I. The Arrival of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-4)
II. The Reaction to the Holy Spirit's Arrival (Acts 2:5-13)a. Amazement (Acts 2:5-12)b. Mockery (Acts 2:13)
III. The Explanation of the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ken Pell on Jul 2, 2007
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POLYCARP(2nd Century)
Can you imagine what it was like for the church in Smyrna as they watched their beloved and aged pastor burn at the stake? Polycarp was his name. he was a disciple of Jesus’ disciple, the Apostle John. One could tell it immediately because he possessed the same tenderness and
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Nazarene
Contributed by Mark Brunner on Oct 12, 2004
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“Goodbye Ginger!” 1 Corinthians13: 8-13: Key verse(s): 12: “Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”
Yesterday, on a bright and sunny autumn day, Ginger died. Ginger was one of my
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Lutheran