Contributed by John Bright on Apr 26, 2021
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Mercy and Judgement are two sides of the same coin – We often put different parts of God’s character (attributes) into conflict. If we declare God as merciful, can He still bring righteous judgement? Let me share an example to help you understand the connection between mercy and judgment. If you
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Methodist
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Mar 14, 2001
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It’s very easy to pass judgement on people, especially if we haven’t passed through their experience. People who have lost a loved one, lost their job through being made redundant or lost a position of responsibility, often go through a valley of bereavement which can’t be understood second-hand.
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Baptist
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 21, 2008
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It’s amazing what you can get away with these days, especially if you’ve got a good lawyer: Have you heard of a lawyer Dubbed "Mr Loophole" owing to his talent for finding unusual technical defenses, Mr. Freeman has represented celebrities from footballer David Beckham to snooker player Ronnie
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Baptist
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Story: Dr. Ian Paisley, the fiery Irish cleric and politician was reputed to have been preaching one Sunday on the End Times - and in particular on the Day of Judgement.
As he reached the climax of his address he said that on the Day of Judgement "there would be wailing and gnashing of teeth".
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Anglican
Contributed by Rick Palmer on Oct 14, 2018
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In 1980 I was hired as a City Police Officer in a small Midwest town with a population of 2200. The first week on duty we closed an investigation of a local man who held a position in the School system. He had gained the confidence of the parents, students, and the community. After a traffic
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 23, 2006
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John N. Oswalt, professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages, Asbury Theological Seminary (Wilmore, Kentucky): “Isaiah calls to mind historic events which would give credence to the eschatological [last times, end times, judgement] hope. Gideon and his people, faced by an oppressive horde,
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Chris Jordan on Dec 26, 2009
GOD HAS SPOKEN...LISTEN!
"If God has spoken, listen! If God has recorded his words in a Book, search its pages with a believing heart. If you do not accept it as God’s inspired word, I cannot invite you to pay any particular attention to it; but if you regard it as the Book of God, I charge you,
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Contributed by Charles Jones on Sep 5, 2011
CORRUPT FORM OF GODLINESS
Their are individuals who are hanging around the Church that don't know God, "they have a form of godliness but they are denying the power thereof." The Bible gives us a word about 2 people who were in this kind of predicament. In 1 Samuel 2:12-36 with focus
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Chris Jordan on Jul 13, 2007
Charles Spurgeon declared, “If God has spoken, listen! If God has recorded his words in a Book, search its pages with a believing heart. If you do not accept it as God’s inspired word, I cannot invite you to pay any particular attention to it; but if you regard it as the Book of God, I charge you,
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jan 12, 2005
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The closest I ever came to feeling like Abraham’s servant: our return from Alaska. After serving with a mission congregation for five years, we concluded it was time to return to the "Lower 48." I made arrangements to visit four seperate congregations in the midwest; each paid one fourth of the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Oct 26, 2006
Sam Jones went home one day and his wife said to him, “Sam, I want you to go see the old sheriff who is dying.”
Sam answered his wife, “Honey, you know he has never believed in God. He is an infidel.”
Stirred on by his wife’s persistence, Sam went to see the sheriff.
After visiting with the
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Baptist
Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 24, 2009
"What would most people say if they were asked, "What pops into your mind when you hear the word Christian?" What do you think most people would say? Legalistic? Judgemental? Intolerant? I am convinced that way too few of them would say, "The word that pops into my mind is love."
Yet love is
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Baptist
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 28, 2008
John Bevere said he visited Jim Bakker in prison and Jim told him that his experience brought about a change of heart. He experienced Jesus as Master for the first time. He lost his family, ministry, everything he owned, and then found Jesus. He said, "John, this prison is not God’s judgement on
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Pat Cook on Jul 27, 2003
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I remember a skit at camp several years ago. There was a fence that one girl sat on. Someone tried to convince her to be saved, but she wouldn’t go. Someone else tried to lead her to open, indulgent, flagrant sin, and she wouldn’t do that either. She was content to sit on the fence.
Then the
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Baptist
Contributed by Graham John on Apr 1, 2001
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Foot and Mouth
The most recent attack on the foot and mouth disease that is ravaging farms in the U.K. has been the sad slaughter of thousands and thousands of unaffected cows & sheep, together with their newborn spring lambs. This is to create a “firebreak” between the infected and the uninfected
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Jul 31, 2007
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We have bought all the God is only love theology of today. However, the plain meaning of this passage is still in affect today, whether we believe it or not. We need to get serious about it.
However, our modern scientific minds silently scoff at God bringing sickness and death as judgement,
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 14, 2020
“The Guy in the Glass,” source unknown.
When you get what you want in your struggle for self and the world makes you king for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself and see what that guy has to say.
For it isn’t your father, mother or wife whose judgement upon you must pass.
The fellow
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 5, 2001
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Sometimes His ways are hard to understand at the time, I can offer a personal example: Teenage children can be quite a trial, even a pain! 25 years ago my son was! He was keen on old vehicles that he intended to renovate. Against my better judgement, so I thought at the time, he acquired an old
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Baptist