ABANDONED
A little over a week ago I made a pilgrimage over to Wally Mart – I’m sure to get something for dinner. Anyway, while getting out of the car, I noticed that the car in front of me had in it a small child – a baby, sitting in his or her car seat, sleeping away. All the while the baby’s
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Denomination:
Lutheran
One of the characters in Kent Haruf’s novel Plainsong, is Victoria, a seventeen-year-old girl who is four months pregnant. When her boyfriend finds out about her condition, he breaks up with her. And when her mother finds out, she kicks her out of the house and says to her, “You got yourself into
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 16, 2003
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Joan of Arc said, when she was abandoned by those who should have stood by her, “It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me nor His counsel nor His love.
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Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Jason Cole on Mar 14, 2004
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Documented in a book by James Patterson and Peter Kim, the Day America Told the Truth, (1991), Americans were asked: “What are you willing to do for $10,000,000?”
Would abandon their entire family (25%)
Would abandon their church (25%)
Would become prostitutes for a week or more (23%)
Would give
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Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 20, 2007
"God’s investment in us is so great he could not possibly abandon us."
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Today it is necessary to live with enough conservatism to resist the easy abandonment of concepts, but with enough flexibility to be
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Documented in a book by James Patterson and Peter Kim, The Day America Told the Truth, (1991), Americans were asked: “What are you willing to do for $10,000,000?” Two-thirds of Americans polled would agree to at least one, some to several of the following:
§ Would abandon their entire family
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Denomination:
Holiness
Contributed by William Hooper on Jul 11, 2007
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What are you willing to do for $10,000,000? In 1991 James Patterson and Peter Kim, in their book The Day America Told the Truth, reported a survey where that question was asked. Two-thirds of Americans polled would agree to at least one, some to several of the following:
Would abandon their entire
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 4, 2001
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What would you be willing to do for $10,000,000-00? In their book, The Day America Told the Truth, James Patterson and Peter Kim reveal some shocking statistics about how far people in this country are willing to go for ten million.
Would abandon their entire family (25%)
Would abandon their
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Contributed by Lisa Delay on Aug 9, 2005
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In their book, The Day America Told the Truth, James Patterson and Peter Kim reveal some shocking statistics about how far people in this country are willing to go for ten million dollars.
Would abandon their entire family (25%)
Would abandon their church (25%)
Would become prostitutes for a week
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Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle their time away insipidly is because
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Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Apr 11, 2002
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“The husband who plops himself down in front of the t.v. and orders his wife around like a slave has abandoned
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
It is hard to understand how God the Father could abandon his only begotten Son, but “the only solution of the mystery is this, Jesus Christ was forsaken of God
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Contributed by Ian Johnson on May 1, 2008
Tell me, what possible risk do you take in depending totally upon God? What risk do you run by abandoning yourself completely to Him?
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 6, 2009
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HIDE AND SEEK WITH GOD
This week I have been hammered by the immensity of what it means to "abandon," "forsake," or "leave alone" the omnipresent God, God who is everywhere. How is that possible? It is ONLY possible if God allows us to leave, allows us to turn our back upon God Himself.
Yes, it
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Denomination:
*other
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Apr 6, 2001
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Values can be completely reversed in certain circumstances. You may have heard the story of how when the "Titanic" was sinking, a rich lady was in her cabin when the order to abandon ship was given. There was no time for packing possessions. She noticed two things on her dressing table - her
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Baptist
Contributed by Bala Samson on May 23, 2013
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He will quiet you with His love!
Zephaniah 3:17”………..He will quiet you with His love…”
When I was admitted for an operation, the next room woman delivered a baby with a hole in her heart, the family did something which was horrendous and incredible, they decided to abandon her. The little infant
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Denomination:
Pentecostal
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