Contributed by Joel Preston on Nov 15, 2002
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PAYDAY SOMEDAY
An Atheist farmer often ridiculed people who believed in God. He wrote the following letter to the editor of a local newspaper:
“I plowed on Sunday, planted on Sunday, cultivated on Sunday, and hauled my crops on Sunday; but I never went to church on Sunday. Yet, I harvested more
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Baptist
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Oct 24, 2003
“It’s only words, and words are all I have, to take your heart away” - The Bee Gees
When the Gibb brothers put their heads together in 1968 to write their song, “Words”, they said a lot more than what comes off the surface. In the main line of the song they manage to convey the message that
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Orthodox
Contributed by Evie Megginson on Nov 4, 2003
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S. D. Gordon tells of a spring storm that broke a large limb on his cherry tree. Although it hung by a very slender strand, to his surprise the blossoms came anyway. Later some fruit began to grow as it did on the other branches. He noticed, however, that only those in full contact with the tree
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Baptist
Frank Herbert, the author of Dune has a mantra called the Shai-Hulud and goes.
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it is gone past me I will turn to see
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by W F on Sep 29, 2004
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Some timber producers have to wait up to 180 years to produce a harvest! That means the planter will never know the great grandchild who reaps the harvest, and the harvester will never know the forefather who planted the seed. The future depends on the foresight and patience of each
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British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge once had a discussion with a man who firmly believed that children should not be given formal religious instruction, but should be free to choose their own religious faith when they reached maturity. Coleridge did not disagree, but later invited the man into his
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Aug 12, 2007
In the 1970’s Christian Barnard a South African heart surgeon performed the first ever heart transplant and was able to give someone a new heart this in some respects gave the person a new life. And that is exactly what each and every person in the world needs today a new spiritual heart and the
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 2, 2007
A Church Is Not An Audience
A sharp distinction ought to be made between a church and an audience.
· An audience is a group of unrelated people drawn together by a short-lived attraction. A church is a group of born again believers drawn together by a Savior.
· An audience is a crowd. A church is
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Baptist
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
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What if I were to tell you I’ve taped a $1 bill under a pew somewhere in here this morning? Some of you are already looking for it! I didn’t even tell you you could have it! I didn’t even say I really did it! Still, if there’s even a slight chance that I might have done that, some of you are
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 8, 2008
“Left to ourselves, we seek our own. Movie stars marry movie stars. Doctors seek out doctors. Middle-classers seek out middle-classers. Bikers seek bikers. But when Christ comes, that changes. In the church of Jesus Christ, we discover that the people we love and with whom we fellowship are
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Other
Contributed by Ajai Prakash on May 9, 2008
Not too many years ago newspapers carried the story of Al Johnson, a Kansas man who came to faith in Jesus Christ. What made his story remarkable was not his conversion, but the fact that as a result of his newfound faith in Christ, he confessed to a bank robbery he had participated in when he was
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Jim Kane on Dec 3, 2008
Being busy is one thing, being overbusy is another. Life, reality has limits. Right now our nation, I believe is having to learn (I truly hope) that there are limits. We have to come to grips with the truth that we can only do so much in a day and in a month and in a year and in a lifetime. We are
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009
When a nightclub opened on Main Street, the only church in that small town organized an all-night prayer meeting. The members asked God to burn down the club. Within a few minutes, lightning struck the club, and it burned to the ground.
The owner sued the church, which denied responsibility.
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Pentecostal