Contributed by Charles Mallory on Oct 11, 2001
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WHEN ASKED TO DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND AN AVERAGE PERSON, ALBERT EINSTEIN EXPLAINED THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON FACED WITH THE PROBLEM OF FINDING A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK WOULD STOP WHEN HE OR SHE LOCATED A NEEDLE. BUT
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 11, 2001
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Engage the congregation in a pricing game. Ask them to estimate the value of objects in the worship room. Enlist assistants to tape a blank piece of paper on each object and write the estimated value. After the congregation has estimated several object values ask for a child to come and stand by
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Contributed by Fred Sigle on Apr 20, 2005
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A PARAMEDIC was asked on a local Dallas TV talk-show program: “What was your most unusual and challenging 911 call?”
“Recently,” paramedic began, we got a call from that big white CHURCH on 11th and Walnut. A frantic usher was very concerned that during their WORSHIP service an elderly man
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by David Kirkner on Aug 22, 2005
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Illustration: (Seinfeld re-run)Jerry was asking George if he told his female friend the truth when he (George) was describing himself (George) to the girl. George responded: "Yes, I did" and Jerry replied "As you see it" ... Later in the diner Jerry was leaving to tell his female friend some
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Baptist
Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Aug 14, 2006
Weekly requests poured in by mail asking for legal permission to quote and use an author’s writing material. One day a request came, like many previously, asking for permission to use some published work. The sender, from Houston, Texas, was asking if she could use the author’s material as she
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 28, 2006
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Leonard Bernstein was once asked which instrument was the most difficult to play. He thought for a moment and then replied, "The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm -
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Ray Searan on Feb 21, 2007
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Someone asked, “What in the world is happening with our kids today?” Let us see…I think it started when Madelyn Murray O’Hare complained that she did not want any prayer in our schools, and we said “Okay.” Then someone said, “You had better not read the Bible in school” – the Bible that says, “Thou
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Mar 5, 2007
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When asked to explain the Scriptural teaching on election, often the response goes something like this: “God votes for you; Satan votes
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I dont ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. They
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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I have learned that prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 24, 2009
When I was in seminary, the administration asked me to go on a recruiting trip back to Central College, from which I had graduated. So one of the professors and I flew into DesMoines, Iowa, where the college chaplain picked us up. He started to drive us to Pella, a trip of about an hour. The three
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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