Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 8, 2010
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Agape love: ‘an unconditional commitment to actively pursue & secure the good of another through sacrificial
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 26, 2006
This year an estimated 3 million children are attending VBS this summer, according to Agape Press.com. (Foster
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Contributed by Patrick Nix on Jul 8, 2010
The word ‘love’ conjures up so man different things today. A modern dictionary lists 28 various uses for the word: tender affection, warm attachment, intimate passion, strong predication, & amorous benevolence. Yet not of these are complete to define / describe what the Bible speaks of as a
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
Reduce Risk The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse has identified religious involvement and family dinners as the two key factors reducing risk of teen
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Planned Parenthood reports it generated $882 million in FY ’04-‘05, one-third of which ($275 million) came from American taxpayers. During that same time period the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 16, 2006
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Christian Music Illegal: The New York Division of Human Rights has accused a skating rink of discrimination for playing Christian music during a skate party for churches. Rink owners insist they’ve done nothing wrong and that authorities are investigating to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 16, 2006
Healthy Dining An 8 year Columbia University study has verified kids who have dinner with their parents less than 3 times a week are much likelier to smoke, to drink, or to use drugs than kids who have dinner with their parents 5 to 7 times a week. Kids who dine frequently with parents have reduced
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 16, 2006
Home Schooling continues its rapid growth with 2 million U.S. children being home schooled in ’05 vs. half that in ’02. Mike Smith, Home School Legal Defense Assoc., claims home schooling has proven through standardized achieve-ment tests that home schooled children out perform those in both
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Home Schooling continues its rapid growth with 2 million U.S. children being home schooled in ’05 vs. half that in ’02. Mike Smith, Home School Legal Defense Assoc., claims home schooling has proven through standardized achievement tests that home schooled children out perform those in both private
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 16, 2006
A Virginia woman who allegedly killed her own unborn baby with a pistol shot while it was still in the womb will not be prosecuted because a judge threw out the charges, saying she had not violated the law. American Life League’s Judie Brown says the ruling
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 2, 2006
Porn Plague: The number of commercial pornography Web sites has increased 1,800% in the last 5 years, with an estimated 260 million pages classified as porn. In a single month (July ‘03), N2H2, an Internet filtering company, says more than 28 million new porn web pages appeared. That one-month jump
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Richard Armstrong, in Make Your Life Worthwhile, reports the story about a man in Wales who sought to win the affection of a certain lady for 42 years before she finally said, "Yes." The couple, both 74, recently became "Mr. and Mrs."
For more than 40 years, the persistent,
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Oct 31, 2007
Not A Time For Weak-Hearted Preaching
By Fred Jackson and Jody Brown
November 22, 2002
(Agape Press) - A well known Bible teacher and author is calling on pastors to confront false beliefs from the pulpit. John MacArthur says no epoch in history has witnessed the rise of as many dangerous belief
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Baptist
Contributed by Jeff Simms on Feb 14, 2004
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In a discipleship training series called “The Agape Road”, author and speaker Bob Mumford talks about what he calls “The White Knuckle Club”. In other words, sometimes God will bring some area of our lives to our attention and we will realize that we need to change. So, we’ll go to God and
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
Collegiate Church Drop-Outs In ‘02, the SBC’s Council on Family Life reported 88% of evangelical children are leaving the church shortly after they graduate from high school. Estimates of 15 to 20 million people now in America have said they’re Christians but don’t want to be a part of the church.
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There are 10 key points about the Love of God in I John 4:7-21:
1. LOVE IS OF GOD (4:7) - not that God is love only. He is not limited or bound by anything.
So, what is love? Study I Corinthians 13...... There are 3 Greek words (agape, phileo, eros). This love is agape, unconditional,
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Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 10, 2008
Pastoral Appreciation
Pastors are very thankful to the Lord for every worker that God has given to the church of Jesus Christ. There is no greater blessing than to see obedient Christians exercise their gifts under the guidance of agape love. Whether it be the gift of helps, administration,
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Contributed by Joel Pankow on May 9, 2001
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Maybe you heard about the guy who fell in love with an opera singer. He hardly knew her, since his only view of the singer was through binoculars - from the third balcony. He was convinced he could live “happily ever after” married to a voice like that. He scarcely noticed that she was
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Lutheran