Contributed by Ernest Canell on Jan 2, 2001
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Dear Abby recorded a powerful story. A young man from a wealthy family was about to graduate from high school. It was a custom in their affluent community for parents to give their graduating children a new car, and the boy and his dad had spent weeks visiting one dealership after another. The week
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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Many years ago in St. Louis, a lawyer visited a Christian to transact some business. Before the two parted, his client said to him, “I’ve often wanted to ask you a question, but I’ve been afraid to do so.”
“What do you want to know?” asked the lawyer.
The man replied, “I’ve wondered why you’re
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This is just a commercial brake: I remember the church where I was youth leader. None of the 12 members of the board but me were under 60. And I came before them with a proposal. "Give me the permission and several Bibles to go door to door around the tires factory where I worked for a while. I’ll
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 3, 2011
THE MAYOR'S MARTYR MAID
"I found one!"
The inquisitor held up a Bible and hollered out, "Bring in the mayor and his family. Someone is studying the Bible in this house!"
In the 16th century, Philip II sent the Duke of Alba to Flanders to stamp out the Protestants who insisted on reading the
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Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 3, 2012
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Joanne Shetler spent years in the Philippines with the Balangao people, translating the Bible into their language and trying to tell them the good news of the Savior. But it was slow going. One day Ama, a man who had “adopted” her as his Balangao daughter, picked up an English New Testament from
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 18, 2007
I was at a conference years ago, and I found myself in this pastor’s small group discussion, a bunch of these old guys. The conversation turned to the subject of Jesus being the exclusive way to salvation (which by the way, is sound orthodox theology, clear biblical interpretation handed down for
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
I remember the church where I was youth leader. None of the 12 members of the board but me were under 60. And I came before them with a proposal. "Give me the permission and several Bibles to go door to door around the tires factory where I worked for a while. I’ll go there with young people from
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
There is a story about a former prizefighter that had been converted and thought God had called him to preach
The only problem was, while he thought he had the gift of preaching, nobody else had the gift of listening
So he couldn’t get a church
He got a little pulpit, found a street corner and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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The devil challenged St. Peter to a baseball game.
“How can you win, Satan?” asked St. Peter. “All the famous ballplayers are up here.”
“How can I lose?” answered
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Jan 1, 2007
After our soul winning crusade in Criciuma, Brazil the Mayor told us in his home, with tears in his eyes, that on the site of ourcrusade they were going to build a city park and name it the Park of
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 23, 2008
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Just before the death of the great comedian WC Fields a friend came to visit him in hospital, When he got there he was surprised to find W. C thumbing through a Bible. When
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2003
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*Some Gifts You Keep*
Some things you keep. Like good teeth. Warm coats. Bald husbands & chubby wives. They’re good for you, reliable and practical and so sublime that to throw them away would make the garbage man a thief. So you hang on to the older gifts, because something old is sometimes
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 28, 2003
Billy Sunday, a great preacher from the early 1900’s, once said: “There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because
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Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Oct 12, 2009
GENUINE REVIVAL
Quote - NEW SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE BIBLE (Nelson’s) (Is 64:1-3)
'Awesome things that we did not expect' (Is 64:3) is a perfect description of genuine revival, because the unpredictable
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Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 12, 2010
Believing in God not Enough
I hear people say, “He believes in God.” If he has not confessed Christ as his Lord and Savior, he will spend eternity in the place the Bible calls Hell. It was not meant for
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 14, 2007
I read an account of a dear Christian woman in Africa who died, and the village gathered to pay its respects at the funeral. There were many kind things said about her, but one of the most revealing was the
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Baptist