Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
In What’s So Amazing About Grace? Philip Yancey quotes Mark Twain. Apparently Twain used to say he put a dog and a cat in a cage together as an experiment, to see if they could get along. They did, so he put in a bird, pig and goat. They, too, got along fine after a few
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Roy Probus on Dec 27, 2007
When Thomas Dewey lost the ’48 election to Harry Truman, after everyone expected a Dewey landslide, Dewey later said he "...felt like the man who woke up to find himself inside a coffin with a lily in his hand and thought: ’If I’m alive, what
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United Methodist
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
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Roses in the Balken Mountains: Produce some of the world’s finest perfume. In order to get the best fragrance the workers must pick them in the darkest part of the night. The start right after midnight and finish within two hours. Scientific study has shown that this is the interval where the
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Jesus was not an effective leader. Not by the world’s standards. After all, in the corporate crisis, nobody bailed him out and his entire staff ran out on him. His chief operating officer denied him three times and only his mother and his office gofer were with him at his death. And yet, in
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Catholic
Contributed by David Baeder on Jun 8, 2009
Do you remember the movie "Frequency"? And how Johnny ("Chief") talks to his friend over a time-warped CB transmission to his lifelong friend Gordo, and tells him "Yahoo!" In the movie, Gordo buy stock in Yahoo and becomes quite rich. Six months after the movie came out, the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Chris Gowen on Jan 17, 2010
Noah walked with God because his life was lined up with God's ways. No one can walk together except they be agreed. Two men were trying to get a piece of furniture through a doorway. After much frustration and energy was expended, the men stopped and looked at each other with a puzzled look. It was
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Baptist
Contributed by Otis Mcmillan on Jan 26, 2010
Back to the Future
Most of us may remember a movie by this same title. In fact there were several "Back to the Future" sequels. In the movie starring Michael J. Fox and Claudia Wells, after traveling back in time, they found that the only way to return to the future was to recreate the system and
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Methodist
THE AUTHORITY OF THE BODY
When Preacher John Wesley was a student at Oxford Unversity, he was shocked by the amount of drinking done by the students. (Wonder what he would think about college students today?)
After writing to his mother, Susanna Wesley, for her counsel, he received the following
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 22, 2011
It's like little Mary who, having been naughty, was sent into her bedroom to "think things over." Coming out all smiles after a while, she said, "I thought and prayed."
Her mother said, "Fine! That will help you to be good."
Mary responded,
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by James O. Davis on Dec 5, 2001
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Years ago, William Edward Perry, a famous English explorer, mapped out most of the Souther Polar Cap. Many of his maps are still being used today by those who travel to that desolate, sub-zero continent. On one particular expedition, he and his crew having completed mapping an uncharted region,
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Fred Mueller on Dec 13, 2002
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I don’t know how I feel about the Christmas Lexus commercials. Have you seen them? In a series of vignettes, a key to a new Lexus is given to a very surprised and very pleased wife or husband. IN one instance, the husband has the family dog take the ribbon holding the keys to his wife. In
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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Mega Church Growth Slows: A new study by Scott Thumma, Hartford Seminary, indicates that after 20 years of rapid growth, churches of more than 2000 members, growth has markedly slowed. There are approximately 500 such mega churches in the U.S. and nearly all have a conservative theological
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Aug 11, 2006
I read a story this week (by Bishop Tom Wright) about a Father who was preparing to go away on business for several weeks. He was anxious to make sure that his wife would be looked after during his time away and so he had a quiet word with his eldest son who was about 9 years old at the time.
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Anglican
Contributed by Don Jones on Feb 25, 2007
George Sweeting, in his book The No-Guilt Guide for Witnessing, tells of a man by the name of John Currier who in 1949 was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Later he was transferred and paroled to work on a farm near Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1968, Currier’s sentence was
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
We need forgiveness
-Others may remember all your faults but friends forgive
A story tells that two friends were walking through a desert.
During some point in the journey, they had an argument and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying
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