THE HUNDRED-DOLLAR WORD
I’m sure you have all heard of Rudyard Kipling. He is the author of famous books like The Jungle Book and Captain Courageous. His writings not only made him famous but also brought him a fortune. A newspaper reporter came up to him once and said, "Mr. Kipling, I just
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Nov 6, 2010
GOD, CAN YOU HEAR ME?
"My future seemed so uncertain and I was asking, 'God, can you hear me?'"
I’ve got three children and ever since they were babies my wife Moira has heard every single murmur. Even now that they are 16, 12 and 7 she hears them when they call out from their beds and when she
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Anglican
YOU THINK YOU CAN DO BETTER?
A young boy complained to his father that most of the church hymns were boring to him. They were far too behind the times, tiresome tunes and meaningless words. He kept talking about it, for many weeks.
One day his father put an end to the discussion by saying, "If
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 7, 2011
DON'T CHOOSE DATES LIKE CARS
Most young people choose their dates like some folks buy cars.
If it looks good on the outside, it’s the right color, the right style; if it’s interior is pleasing to their eye and pleasing to the touch; and if it’s got all kinds of bells and whistles...that’s the car
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THE ARTIST AND THE GARDENER
Both the artist and the gardener begin with contemplation, paying close attention to what is already there.
The gardner looks carefully at the landscape; the existing plants, both flowers and weeds; the way the sun falls on the land, and so on. The artist regards their
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Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 14, 2011
PROOF OF WHO HE IS
This reminds me of the three lunatics in an insane asylum: The first lunatic said to the second, "Did you know that I'm Napoleon Bonaparte?"
Indignantly, the second lunatic replied, "I beg your pardon! It just so happens that I am Napoleon Bonaparte!"
The first one said, "Oh
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on May 22, 2011
DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?
A student sat through an exam. The teacher supervising said time up but still the student carried on. The teacher said; "Hand your exam paper in now or I'm not going to accept it." Still the student carried on.
Thirty minutes later the student got up and stood before the
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 10, 2011
REVENGE IN WITNESSING
Yubis was filled with grief and didn't know where to turn. Yubis' husband--a pastor--was brutally murdered as a martyr in Colombia for his faith and teachings of Jesus Christ. As a result, their two-year-old daughter was despondent--and she stopped speaking. She would only
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011
THE IMPACT OF LUST
I think about a woman I knew in college who dated and slept with one guy after another until one night she slept with several men consecutively. After college, she went from one relationship to another until she had a mental breakdown. Now in her mid 40s, she just pulling her
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Methodist
Contributed by Eugene Morell on Jan 15, 2012
DOING WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING
A high school teen came home from school to find his mother in the kitchen making supper. She asked what was new in school today. He said that a lot of the teens in his class were saying that the world was going to end that night and I was wondering what you
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 1, 2012
SURE YOU WANT TO WIN THE LOTTERY?
When William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in a 1988 lottery, one of the first things he did was try to please his family. Unfortunately, his kin was of the unfriendly sort. Post's brother hired a hit man to kill him, hoping to inherit some money. Other family
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Aug 13, 2012
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SPIT
Now why did Jesus spit in the blind man’s eyes? This is similar to another time when he spit in some dust and made clay, with which he anointed blind eyes (Mark 7:33). If a modern evangelist or missionary followed Jesus’ example in this, how well received would it
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Contributed by Francis Balla on Sep 24, 2012
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GET ACQUAINTED WITH HEAVEN
"The man who is about to sail for Australia or New Zealand as a settler, is naturally anxious to know something about his future home, its climate, its employments, its inhabitants, its ways, its customs. All these are subjects of deep interest to him. You are leaving
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Contributed by Hal Seed on Nov 9, 2012
MARCUS YOUNG AND THE BIBLE
In the 1890s, Marcus Young moved his family to the country of Burma, which is now called Myanmar. He was digging a well one day when he noticed some mountain tribesmen staring down into the hole he was in.
The tribesmen asked him, “Have you brought the book of
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Dec 17, 2012
My dogs like to go on jogs with me. The older dog, Yogi (name after the bear), is a sheep herding dog and loves to run. He is older now and he cannot run as fast, and cannot hear either. So his passion for running and loss of hearing often gets him lost. I realized that if we are going to run
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Charles Jones on Apr 11, 2013
GOD "SUBDUES" OUR SINS
The word "subdue" is such a powerful word. In the Hebrew, it is the word "kabash" (kaw-bash) meaning to "tread down, disregard, conquer, bring into subjection". The Hebrew word for "cast" is "shalak" (shaw-lak) which means "to hurl, to throw away".
What an amazing
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