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  • Faith Is Acting As Though A Thing Is So, When It ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 11, 2010
     | 2,808 views

    "Faith is acting as though a thing is so, when it is not, in order for it ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • A Young Boy Went With His Parents Touring Around ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Jun 9, 2010
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     | 2,780 views

    A young boy went with his parents touring around Europe one summer. Part of their tour included visits to the great old cathedrals of the past. As he visited cathedral after cathedral he was impressed by the massive stained glass portraits of the disciples and of other saints as he stood in their ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Not Long Ago They Found A Seed Deep Within A ...

    Contributed by David Moore on Jun 9, 2010
     | 2,757 views

    Not long ago they found a seed deep within a pyramid in Egypt. It was estimated to be 3,000 years old. Just for the fun of it they planted it to see if it would grow and reproduce, and it did! That’s one of the interesting things about seeds, is that they can store for a ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Call Me A Christian  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 8, 2010
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     | 2,251 views

    CALL ME A CHRISTIAN A deacon, who was full of himself, was teaching a boy Sunday School class. He was working hard to stress the importance of living a Christian life. With an air of arrogance he asked, "Why do people call me a Christian?" After an ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • A Letter For Joe

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 8, 2010
     | 2,720 views

    A LETTER FOR JOE Joseph Parker was a popular preacher in London, England in the late 1800's. He was the pastor of the large City Temple. One Sunday as he was going to the pulpit a woman in the balcony tossed a piece of paper on the platform before him. He picked it up and read it. It contained ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Janet Reno, Attorney General Of The United States ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on Jun 2, 2010
     | 1,605 views

    Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States during the Clinton administration, was interviewed on “60 Minutes” on June 26, 1999. She seems to hold this ancient opinion of Christians. Here is how she defined a cultist: A cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and the Second ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • A Leader ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 1, 2010
     | 1,979 views

    A Leader Is… Peter Drucker, perhaps the most noted authority on leadership in the 20th century, says: A leader is one who has followers. An effective leader is not someone who is loved or admired. He is someone whose followers do the right thing. Popularity is not leadership, results are. Leaders ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jesus Christ Is Not Valued At All Until He ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 1, 2010
     | 1,567 views

    “Jesus Christ is not valued at all until He is valued above ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • A Heart For ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 1, 2010
     | 6,154 views

    A Heart for Praise Louis Albert Banks tells of an elderly Christian man, a fine singer, who learned that he had cancer of the tongue and that surgery was required. In the hospital after everything was ready for the operation, the man said to the doctor, “Are you sure I will never sing again?” The ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jesus And Satan Have A Discussion As To Who Is ...

    Contributed by Noel Atkinson on May 30, 2010
     | 2,747 views

    Jesus and Satan have a discussion as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest, with God as the judge. They sit themselves at their computers and begin. They type furiously, lines of code streaming up the screen, for several ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Gas ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 29, 2010
     | 1,550 views

    Gas Mileage According to a story in the Grand Rapids Press, the owner of a small foreign car had begun to irritate his friends by bragging incessantly about his gas mileage. So they decided on a way to get some humor out of his tireless boasting, as well as bring it to an end. Every day one of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • During World War Ii, A Military Governor Met With ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 29, 2010
     | 1,540 views

    During World War II, a military governor met with General George Patton in Sicily. When he praised Patton highly for his courage and bravery, the general replied, “Sir, I am not a brave man . . . The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Five]-Year Old Johnny Was In The Kitchen As His ...

    Contributed by Donnie Martin on May 29, 2010
     | 1,260 views

    [Five]-year old Johnny was in the kitchen as his mother made supper. She asked him to go into the pantry and get her a can of tomato soup, but he didn’t want to go in alone. “It’s dark in there and I’m scared.” She asked again, and he persisted. Finally she said, “It’s OK—Jesus will be in there ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • In One Community -- The Village Atheist Was Not ...

    Contributed by Karl Popke on May 28, 2010
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     | 5,996 views

    In one community -- the Village atheist was not a bad man. He just didn’t believe. He wasn’t interested in church…and there was only one in the area. And this church was,-- well, mostly a social club. Heartlessly and spiritually dead—no conversions or decisions for Christ had been made for some ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Listen To This Insightful Observation Of A.w. ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on May 27, 2010
     | 3,060 views

    Listen to this insightful observation of A.W. Tozer: One hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other. They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers meeting ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Someone Has Said That The Cross Has Become So ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on May 27, 2010
     | 2,020 views

    Someone has said that the cross has become so ordinary that we hardly see it anymore. Isn’t that a deeply sad statement? Can you imagine a time when you could hardly be moved by the death sentence being passed on someone very near to you? Yet church members can act as if they no longer see the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • It Seems To Me That It Is Accurate To Say Our ...

    Contributed by Ed Sasnett on May 27, 2010
     | 1,720 views

    It seems to me that it is accurate to say our generation is in a relationship crisis. We have the highest divorce rate in the Western hemisphere, more couples live together than are married, absentee fathers or mothers are common, abortions that number into the hundreds of thousands ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • God-Fanatics

    Contributed by David Moore on May 26, 2010
     | 1,351 views

    GOD-FANATICS Did you know that an online survey of 20 000 football fans revealed that 51% said they would starve themselves for a week if that would bring victory in the upcoming World Cup to their national squad. More than 40% offered to give up dating for a year, 7% said they would gladly give ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • When Our Family Moved To East Point, Georgia, A ...

    Contributed by Bobby Gilstrap on May 25, 2010
     | 2,754 views

    When our family moved to East Point, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, our house was in the flight pattern for Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport. Every few minutes, all day and all night, large commercial jets would take off and fly over our home before veering off to destinations unknown. ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Some Unknown Poet Put It This ...

    Contributed by Bobby Gilstrap on May 25, 2010
     | 2,537 views

    Some unknown poet put it this way: They came to the gates of Canaan, But they never entered in; They came to the very threshold, But they perished in their sin. And so we are ever coming To the place where two ways part, One leads to the land of ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist