Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 2, 2022
As we approach the last of the last days, we see an alarming trend among many pastors to drift away from the basic truths of Scripture. We should not be surprised. Jesus promised this day would come (Matthew 24, II Timothy 3). So, how do we know for sure from Scripture that Jesus is the very
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 22, 2025
Aero Condor was experiencing money problems in Peru and needed to cut back expenses. So, rumor had it they hired two blind pilots.
Story soon spread about these pilots, but no one believed it. So one day the plane was loaded and up came the two pilots, with dark glasses and walking sticks. The
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Contributed by Marcus Naugler on Nov 21, 2001
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Once upon a time, the animals decided they should do something meaningful to meet the problems of the new world. So they organized a school. They adopted an activity curriculum of running, climbing, swimming and flying. To make it easier to administer the curriculum, all the animals took all the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 6, 2001
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TRAMPLING DEATH
The early Christians understood that death had been conquered by the resurrection of Christ; this theme recurs repeatedly in their writings. Again and again one is struck with the note of victory in the attitude of the martyrs as they faced death. St. Athanasius wrote of this
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 23, 2002
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When I was a boy we had an elderly lady that lived near us named Julie Mae Brown. She was up in years and had become almos deaf and couldn’t hardly see. Despite these issues, Julie Mae wanted to be in church on Sunday Morning but she couldn’t get there on her own. It became the responsibility of
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Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Dec 10, 2001
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IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF CALM-- Communion Mediation
Lucinda Norman, in an article for Lookout magazine, describes her Christmas shopping experience at a busy mall. People had been pushing, elbowing and cutting in front of her all day. Hardly able to take it anymore, she says,
“During a 10-minute
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ILL.: About 15 years ago I was visiting my wife (we were dating back then) and I was playing with her little sister. As usual she was jumping all over me so we started play wrestling. I had her in a pretend headlock and she couldn’t get out (she was 4).
She called a time out and said she needed to
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
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A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. "There is a mousetrap in the house! There
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Contributed by Scott Bayles on Jun 4, 2004
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DEATH OF THE SON
There is an old story about a man by the name of John Griffith, who lived in Oklahoma in 1929 and lost all he had in the stock market. He moved to Mississippi where he took a job as bridge tender for a railroad trestle. In 1937 he was involved in a horrific accident. One day his 8
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 11, 2009
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EYES AND TOES
There is a terrific story I once heard in a taped message from a marvelous Baptist pastor named Ron Dunn. Dunn's parable suggested that once upon a time there was a body where the eyes convinced all of the other parts of the body that the gift of SIGHT was the only important gift.
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Contributed by David Rumley on Oct 28, 2009
o In Peter Schaeffer’s Play Amadeus
o Story of Salieri
Makes a prayer before God…
I would offer up secretly the proudest prayer a boy could think of. “Lord, make me a great composer! Let me celebrate your glory through music – and be celebrated myself! Make me famous through the
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