Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 5, 2002
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IT BEATS HELL!
It is said that Abe Mulky, who became the Texas Evangelist, went to an old-fashioned revival and was under deep conviction. He went home and said to his wife, "Mandy, what shall I do? I am lost. I am miserable. But you know we have gained our possessions crookedly and if I get
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 1, 2004
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A Sunday School teacher told her class of 2nd graders the story found in Luke 16 of the Rich man and Lazarus. How that when they were here upon the earth the rich man had everything that money could buy and poor Lazarus had to beg for mere crumbs. But when they died, the rich man due to his
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Contributed by Doane Brubaker on Aug 27, 2007
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"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will (Rom 12:2, NIV).
The word we translate "transformed" is metamorfousthe. Does that sound
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Contributed by Tim Smith on May 10, 2014
Dan Kimball writes, "I am passionate about hell. That sounds odd -- but I am not passionate about hell itself, but passionate about studying what it is because of the seriousness of what it is. I am passionate about it as I don't want anyone to experience it. Sort of like when you study cancer, you
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Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 9, 2019
Billy was born in 1972 into a family of drug abusers. His mother died of an overdose when little Billy was three years old, His father was wanted in Tennessee for selling drugs. Little Billy was slipped into Tennessee to live with relatives. In all reality little Billy spent his life looking for
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Once upon a time. . . . sorry, folks, I couldn’t resist that one. But it wasn’t that long ago that people paid their bills by writing a check and then mailing said item and bill to the address provided. That was true of car insurance, utility bills, credit card bills, among other things.
Now, one
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Illustration: “I don’t believe in Hell.”
The fact that a lot of people have a tough time believing in a literal Hell was brought home to me in a very meaningful way.
When I pastored in Chino, CA we lived in a parsonage right next to the Church. I soon noticed that a certain man was walking up
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Peter Cartwright, a nineteenth-century circuit-riding Methodist preacher, was an uncompromising man. One Sunday morning when he was to preach, he was told that General Andrew Jackson was in the congregation and warned not to say anything out of line.
When Cartwright stood to preach, he said,
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