Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 12, 2008
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Paul could have been filled with bitterness, but he overflowed with the joy of the Lord, and we can too! Our hands are not in chains today. We are blessed far more than most people in the world. But if all of that was taken away, we would still have grace; we would still have Heaven; we would still
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on May 6, 2001
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. We must give practical help to the disadvantaged, perhaps by supporting a Christian relief agency. When John Wesley visited his congregations he would question his assistants as to their progress in the faith. He would often ask if their
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Baptist
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"One of the aboriginal tribes of the South Seas has a rite of passage from boyhood to manhood called a "walkabout." A boy coming to puberty is sent into the jungle for six weeks without food, shelter or weapons. During this time, he must test all of the survival skills he has learned during
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United Methodist
Contributed by Shawn Drake on Feb 22, 2003
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The Flaming Wedding Dress
In one of my first weddings I learned to ask an important question. I now ask each bride if her dress has long sleeves. Why? In one particular wedding, the bride and groom approached the unity candle and as they were lighting the candle, the bride's sleeve caught
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Baptist
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THE VILLAGE ATHEIST WAS NOT A BAD MAN, HE JUST DIDN’T BELIEVE. HE WAS NOT INTERESTED IN CHURCH...AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE IN THE AREA. ONE DAY THE CHURCH BUILDING CAUGHT ON FIRE, AND THE WHOLE TOWN RAN TOWARD IT TO HELP EXTINGUISH THE FLAMES.. INCLUDING THE VILLAGE ATHEIST HEY, THIS IS SOMETHING
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Nazarene
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 29, 2008
The Tongues of Fire
Philo: "Then from the midst of the fire that streamed from heaven there sounded forth to their utter amazement a voice, for the flame became articulate speech in the language familiar to the audience" (Decal. 46), quoted by Ben Witherington III in his commentary, The Acts of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The cross God now sends you he has considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with loving arms and weighed with His own hands to see
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 12, 2001
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Pioneers were making their way across one of the central states to a distant place that had been opened up for homesteading. They traveled in covered wagons drawn by oxen, and progress was necessarily slow. One day they were horrified to note a long line of smoke in the west, stretching for miles
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Contributed by Shane Brooks on Nov 4, 2003
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After the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, The Chaplain of Bourbon Street, Bob Harrington, was asked by the governor of Oklahoma, to come be a spiritual prescence. After a few days there,one officer approached the Chaplain and said, "A few hours ago, one of our fire fighters found
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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The Cold Within (unknown)
Six humans trapped by happenstance in black and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood (or so the story’s told).
Their dying fire, in need of logs, the first woman held hers back,
For on the faces around the fire, she noticed one was black.
The second, looking
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