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Pastor Jon • First United Methodist Church -- Rockville, Indiana • Illustration • • 18 views
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 9 views
No part of history has come down to us so well attested as the life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. A man believes what Tacitus tells him, although very likely Tacitus did not see the things and only got them secondhand. But as a reputable historian, his witness is received. Surely the witness of…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 14 views
In the NFL offseason two men in the Denver Broncos front office were convicted of DUI. Team president, John Elway suspended both of them, but he did not fire them. When asked why Tom Heckert and Matt Russell were not fired Elway replied, “Heck, I’ve made a lot of poor decisions too. I believe in second…
Simeon • Illustration • • 12 views
In the summer of 2008 I went to a 24/7 prayer conference in the Czech Republic. At one point we had a chance to read some of the stories that have come out of prayer rooms across the world. One floored me. A guy took a 3am slot in an australian prayer room, where he found himself meditating on this passage,…
Benjamin Kurz • Illustration • • 563 views
Most of Jesus' ministry was set beside the Sea of Galilee. The Sea of Galilee is the largest body of water in Israel. The Sea was sometimes called the "Abyss." It was believed that the "underworld" was below the sea and demons lived there. Jesus did some interesting things on the Sea of Galilee. It was…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 36 views
Rob Bell spoke on the selecting process that rabbis would use to choose their disciples. At the age of six, children would begin to learn the Torah; this training was called bat-cipher. From age eight to ten, they would memorize the Torah from Genesis to Deuteronomy. By the end of bat-cipher, most kids…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 14 views
Rob Bell spoke on the selecting process that rabbis would use to choose their disciples. At the age of six, children would begin to learn the Torah; this training was called bat-cipher. From age eight to ten, they would memorize the Torah from Genesis to Deuteronomy. By the end of bat-cipher, most kids…
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Carter Holmes Jones, a great preacher of another generation, had a small room in the attic of his home that he used as a place of prayer. When he was especially burdened, he would make his way up the winding staircase to that room to spend some quiet moments with God. The members of his family knew that…
Mike Priest • Illustration • • 7 views
Thomas … and Nathaniel. Nathaniel was a superstitious person. … Nathaniel believed things way too easily. … Without checking them out enough. … There was a time when Jesus simply said … “Nathaniel … I saw you under the fig tree.” Having nothing more to go on than this statement … Nathaniel says … “You…
Mike Priest • Illustration • • 68 views
And I’m not a fisherman. … I’ve only caught one fish in my entire life. I was about 8 years old … and my sister and I were fishing in the pond on our grandpa’s farm. … We caught a fish we named “Buddy.” … Then I had to take Buddy off the hook. He jumped around for a long time … and then he stopped moving…
David Elkins • Illustration • • 23 views
Children's books with names like One Fish, Two Fish; Red Fish, Blue Fish. Screen savers on our computers that pretend to be an aquarium. Long weekends in the north woods, on silent lakes waiting for the first nibble on the line, or sea stories about "the one that got away." It seems like fish turn up…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 30 views
TERROR Hassan Hotari is proud of his son, Saeed. What did Saeed do that made his father proud? Did he graduate from college? Find the cure for a disease? Or get a promotion at work? No. On June 2, Saeed Hotari got out of a car at the Dolphin Disco in Tel Aviv—a nightclub that attracts Israeli teenagers.…
George J Smoluk • Illustration • • 52 views
Preaching the Book God Wrote, Part 1 John MacArthur We believe in biblical inerrancy. So what? How does the truth of biblical inerrancy and the authority of God's written revelation affect what we preach and how we minister? There's little point in defending the inerrancy of Scripture if we're unwilling…
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John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…
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SECTION OUTLINE FOURTEEN (ROMANS 14) Paul discusses the believer’s responsibilities toward those Christians who are weak in the faith. I. No Believer Should Be Judged by Another Believer Down Here (14:1–8). A. We are not to criticize others’ legalism (14:1–8). 1. The rules (14:1–6) a. Don’t judge in…
Leigh Johnson • Illustration • • 129 views
I. Introduction When God created the universe and all within it, God looked and saw that it was good. At some point, however, evil entered the world and corrupted it. People may have different understandings of how this happened, but I don’t think anyone would argue that the world as we know it is the…
Steve Bramham • Illustration • • 950 views
A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…