Contributed by Michael Walther on Jul 10, 2011
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A THUNDERCLAP IN THE DEBATE
A group of college students were debating this issue one day. Some said a mother has the right to do what she wants with her own body. Others pointed out the scientific fact that an unborn child is not part of the mother's body and has its own distinct DNA, blood type,
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Lutheran
Contributed by Vernon Murray on Mar 3, 2004
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The Presbytery was engaged in a major debate over the approval of the budget. Those on one side said we ought to cut the budget because the funds were not available. The other side argued that we ought to solicit more funds from the people so the budget would not have to be cut. It seemed to me
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sean Harder on Jun 23, 2009
This is not going to be a debate about creation or evolution, but I do want to share a quote from a well known pastor named Randy Croft:
Astrophysicists have found that there are over 60 criteria that are necessary for life on earth. For you and me to live. Life could not exist or form if any one
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Mar 17, 2002
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Panel of Women debated on what they thought was a perfect man, a guy who was ‘with it’. You would have thought they would have decided upon some actor or athlete even a wealthy tycoon. They decided that the perfect man was MR POTATO HEAD. 4 Reasons: ‘He’s tan, he’s cute, he
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Mar 18, 2003
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During a heated debate at a church’s board meeting, one of the overheated deacons rose to his feet and with clinched fists declared, “I have my rights.”
Quickly and sensitively, one of the older men replied,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 9, 2005
Jim Berg wrote, “There is debate in Christian circles about whether we are supposed to concentrate on being a certain kind of person or doing certain kind of things. The truth embraces both. You are always going to be some kind of a person or another, and you are always going to be doing one
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 29, 2009
Matters of debate between rabbis included how to implement the commands. Contrast later Rabbis words, "How far should you go in admonishing people? Rav said: Until they beat you up for reprimanding them (Arachin 16b)…I might think that you should admonish him even if his face turned white for
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Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 30, 2004
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ASKING AMISS. Two boys were on the freshman debating team in college. The big night of their first debate, they nervously paced up and down their practice room offstage. The debating coach stuck his head in the door to remind them that the debate was only fifteen minutes away. Ages later he said it
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 2, 2009
Whatever happened to sin? That which, upon first exposure, provokes revulsion will, upon continued exposure, come to be tolerated and finally embraced.
When what was once a crime becomes a debate,
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Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 23, 2012
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UNTIL THE TRUMPET SOUNDS
A pro-choice feminist and a pro-life conservative were debating the relative merits of the sanctity of life issue. Sensing victory in the debate, the feminist declared, "You don’t understand, we’ve won in the White House, and we’ve won in the courthouse. Face it, it’s
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Dec 28, 2001
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Millard Erickson says, “Next to the resurrection, the most debated and controversial event of
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Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 19, 2014
Barry McCarty says, "In 1979 I debated Dr. Robert Thompson, the medical director of the largest abortion clinic in Pittsburg. My case in that debate had two major contentions: 1) That every human being has an unalienable right to life; and 2) that from the moment of conception an unborn child is
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Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through
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