Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2002
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Eugene Peterson in A Long Obedience in the Same Direction writes, “It is not difficult in our world to get a person interested in the message of the Gospel; it is terrifically difficult to sustain the interest. Millions of people in our culture make decisions for Christ, but there is a dreadful
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Aug 13, 2006
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“Indeed, an honest and humble acknowledgment of the hopeless evil of our flesh, even after the new birth, is the first step to holiness. To speak quite plainly, some of us are not leading holy lives for the simple reason that we have too high an opinion of
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Saint or Sinner?
Lord, I'm not sure what I am or what I ain't.
Am I a saint playing sinner or a sinner playing saint?
I love your truth, but I am not good at obeying, as you know.
I can run with the sinners, but feel guilty when I go.
Some of the things I crave are sin, and
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 10, 2020
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My cousin was in love and wanted to introduce his bride-to-be to his hypercritical mother. But in order to get an unbiased opinion, he invited over three other female friends as well and didn’t tell his mom which one he intended to marry. After the four women left, he asked his mother, "Can
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Independent/Bible
Augustine on Depravity and Grace;
“Without you what am I to myself but a guide to my own self destruction?”
“... the self which willed to serve (God) was identical with the self which was unwilling.
It was I.
I was neither wholly willing nor wholly unwilling. So I was in conflict with myself
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Pentecostal