Contributed by Paul Humphrey on Nov 23, 2005
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A man urgently needed to get to town. So he went to a neighbor who happened to be a pastor and asked to borrow his horse. The pastor obliged but told the man that there were some special instructions required for riding this particular horse. The preacher said, “since we need to begin our
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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A friend of mine visited Portugal some years ago on an evangelistic tour. He was delighted to find many believers who were “spiritual giants,” among them a missionary from Great Britain named Eric Barker. He had spent over 50 years in Portugal preaching the gospel, often under adverse conditions.
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Contributed by Bruce Landry on Dec 18, 2006
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Family
Clovis Chappell, a minister from a century back, used to tell the story of two paddleboats. They left Memphis about the same time, traveling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they traveled side by side, sailors from one vessel made a few remarks about the snail’s pace of the
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Have you seen those new GPS guidance systems that you can get for your car? Some are built in (for several thousand dollars) and some are portable. You can plug them into your lighter or cell phone connection in your car. Then you can touch the screen and tell it where you would like to go and it
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 4, 2007
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Our Daily Bread
A guy from Tyson Foods arranges to visit the Pope. After receiving the papal blessing he whispers, "Your Eminence, do we have a deal for you. If you change The Lord’s Prayer from "give us this day our daily bread…" to "give us this day our daily chicken…" we will donate $500 million
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Baptist
Contributed by Scott Kircher on Oct 11, 2009
TORN AWAY: BABY RICHARD
When Paul says that they were "torn away" from them, that word translated as "torn away" means bereaved or made an orphan.
He feels like he has been torn away from his children. When I hear this word, I get a certain picture in my head.
Baby Richard – 1995 (picture of
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ken Mckinley on Jan 10, 2010
I once took a graduate level class on the psychology of learning, and in that class we talked about the way people learn. And I remember one time we were talking about babies and how they perceive certain things. It was kind of amusing actually, but they did a study where they would sit a baby
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Jan 18, 2010
Claiming Forgiveness
How do we know our sins are gone in God’s sight? Most of us know we have been born again. We see the difference. But how do we know we are forgiven? We know it only by taking God at His word and claiming it by faith.
Emperor Napoleon, riding through his ranks fell
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Baptist
Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 25, 2010
Roots: Freedom From Your Slavery
Kunta Kinte lived free among the Mandinka people of West Africa, becoming a Mandinka warrior at fifteen. But then as he gathered wood for a drum outside his village, slavers captured him. Stacked away on a slave ship piled up with a hundred seventy other slaves, he
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Lutheran
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Mar 1, 2010
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IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL
Horatio Gates Spafford, a 43-year-old Chicago Businessman, suffered financial disaster in the great Chicago fire of 1871. He and his wife were still grieving over the death of their son shortly before the fire, and he realized they needed to get away for a vacation. Knowing
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 12, 2010
"HAPPINESS IS THE LORD"
Ira F. Stanphill was born in Belview, New Mexico, in 1914. He has written more than 550 songs, the most popular of which are "Mansion over the Hilltop," "Room at the Cross," and, of course, "Happiness Is the Lord."
On any number of occasions the Lord has given a song to a
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 5, 2011
TWO FACES
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Frank and Louie the cat was born with two faces, two mouths, two noses, three eyes — and lots of doubts about his future.
Now, 12 years after Marty Stevens rescued him from being euthanized because of his condition, the exotic blue-eyed rag doll cat is not only
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Scott Spencer on Oct 7, 2011
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PREVAILING PRAYER
Daniel Nash and Charles Finney were great evangelists in the early 1800s. On one occasion, when meetings had begun in a particular city, a group of young men confronted Charles Finney, openly announcing that they were going to break up the meetings. Finney and Nash decided this
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Calvary Chapel