Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.Vance Havner
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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It's about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end at twelve o clock dull.
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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