Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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I’ve never lifted a barn, but Herman Ostry, a farmer in Bruno, Nebraska has. Shortly after buying a piece of land and a barn, a nearby creek rose, and the barn was under twenty nine inches of water. He half-jokingly said to his family, ‘I bet if we had enough people, we could pick up that barn and
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Jun 4, 2009
Verse 14 (where the psalmist calls God awesome and says he needs to fall down to the ground in adoration of God) is often misunderstood, though. There is a scene in a very cynical, satirical movie that applies to the world’s misunderstanding of praise. It is a scene from a Python film called "The
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 17, 2003
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"Most everyone knows of the newspaper comic strip called “Family Circus”. It pokes fun in a gentle way at the typical family life in a home with several very young children.
I remember one that started out with the mother giving the oldest boy, who appears to be about 6, something to take to the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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One Sunday in a Midwest city, a young child was "acting up "during the morning worship hour. The parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the pew but were losing the battle. Finally, the father picked the little fellow up and walked sternly up the aisle on his way out. Just before
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Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Aug 28, 2009
DADDY’S EMPTY CHAIR
A man’s daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her father. When the minister arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows.
An empty chair sat beside his bed. The minister assumed that the old fellow had been informed of
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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Dr W E Sangster wrote: "If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy", and hear the words of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones: "There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christians so much as our prayer life."
There is a hymn that tells us: "Prayer is the simplest form of speech that
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 15, 2001
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Thomas Watson: “The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel!”
J. Sidlow Baxter: "...Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguements,
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Alan Stokes on Mar 4, 2001
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"A minister was interrupted one morning by his little son, who entered his study, sat down at his father’s feet and fixed his big, wondering eyes upon his father’s face. The father turned to him and asked impatiently: "Well! What is it? What do you want?" The big, round eyes grew wider still
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Holiness
Contributed by Steve Malone on Apr 5, 2001
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Poor communication can led to all kinds of misunderstandings;
A rather old fashioned lady, was planning a couple of weeks vacation in Florida. She also was quite delicate and elegant with her language. She wrote a letter to a particular campground and asked for reservations. She wanted to
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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Too many times, we treat prayer as a transaction and not an opportunity to commune with God. Even though we are bred to be consumers in this country, we should never get
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