Contributed by Melvin Newland on Oct 10, 2001
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Tony Campolo tells of being invited to speak at a ladies meeting. There were 300 women there. Before he spoke the president of the organization read a letter from a missionary. It was a very moving letter.
In the letter the missionary expressed a need for $4,000 to take care of an
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Divorced life is not being there when your little girl
is crying from a bad dream and wants her daddy but
you’re not there because that night was not your
parenting night. (And you won’t even know she had a
bad dream because no one will tell you.)
Divorced life is not having any idea what your
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Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Feb 20, 2002
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Imagine being near a mountain lake. Sometimes early in the morning when the lake is perfectly calm, the reflection of the mountains is magnificently duplicated and mirrored on the lake’s surface. The interesting thing is that if you were to take on little flat stone and skip it across the surface
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 28, 2003
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The 200-year-old church was being readied for an anniversary celebration when calamity struck: the bell ringer was called out of town. The sexton immediately advertised for another.
When the replacement arrived, the sexton took him to the steps leading to the bell tower, some 150 feet above them.
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Tow on Oct 14, 2003
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What specifically are we being reminded of? In verses 24 and 25 of our text Jesus said “…do this in remembrance of Me.” It is a memorial service in honor of the Lord Jesus Christ. On one of the walls in our home is a little heart shaped plaque. On it are the words “When this you see remember
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Charismatic
Contributed by Maurice Schaus on Nov 26, 2003
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Several churches in North Dakota were being served by a clever old preacher. The people were always amazed, for no matter what the circumstances, the preacher could always find something to give thanks for. As he made his rounds one cold December morning, he was late in getting to worship because
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Lutheran
Contributed by Ken Kersten on Jan 22, 2004
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This being Easter our leadership met and decided, "You know, we want to get a really special speaker. Why don’t we call the best preacher in the world and ask him to speak."
And they did and he said "No".
So they said, "Well if we can’t have the best speaker, as least we can get the smartest
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 26, 2004
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Grieving Person: It is so depressing being out of work so long, sometimes I wonder if life is worth living. Not that I’m planning on committing suicide or anything, but this really gets me down.
Right Response: I don’t blame you for feeling the way you do. It is bad, and I would probably have
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
There is a huge bridge being built over the water way between Brunswick GA. and St. Simons Island. It is a beautiful thing and I love to see it. Some people a deathly afraid of bridges. ...
The world’s most important bridge was built in A..D. 30 at Golgotha
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Baptist
Contributed by Stephen Wright on May 7, 2005
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A man thought that by being baptised he could find salvation. A friend of his tried hard to explain that this was not so. But this man insisted that, as water would purify the body, so water consecrated by a minister or priest would purify the soul. Finally the friend used an illustration. "Suppose
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Baptist
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“One day a young minister was being escorted through a coal mine. At the entrance of one of the dim passageways, he spied a beautiful white flower growing out of the black earth. ‘How can it blossom in such purity and radiance in this dirty mine?’ the preached asked. ‘Throw some coal dust on it
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Methodist
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jun 9, 2005
LANCASTER, Pa. -- Days after being shot in the leg, a 2-year-old Lancaster boy is home again after being released from the hospital Tuesday morning June 4th.
Pedro Melendez was shot last week in what police call a case of road rage.
Police said Jon Eichelman shot the boy
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Salvation Army
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After being away on business, a man thought it would be nice to bring his wife a little gift. “How about some perfume?” he asked the cosmetics clerk.
She showed him a bottle costing $50.00. “That’s a bit much,” he said, so she returned with a smaller bottle for $30.00. “That’s still quite a
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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Divorce Cycle Is Being Broken Adult children of divorced parents have a much lower likelihood of experiencing divorce themselves today than 20 years ago. Compared with those who didn’t divorce, they have a:
49% higher split-up rate. In ’73 it was 172% higher.
34% higher rate of teen-age marriage.
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