Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 15, 2002
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THE FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD
The first Christmas card ever produced had its own disturbing qualitites. It was designed by an English artist named John Calcott Horsley in 1843, after he was commissioned for the task by Sir Henry Cole, a businessman from Bath, England. There were 1,000 of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
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DESPISED BECAUSE OF HIS BEHAVIOR
(Vv. 8-11)
Joseph was despised not for doing evil but for doing good. Joseph typifies the Lord in many ways. Sidlow Baxter observes that he was the beloved son, that he was the rejected servant, and also the exalted Savior. The way that he was despised for doing
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One Saturday morning a minister was busily trying to prepare his sermon under the most difficult conditions. It was a rainy day, and his young son was restless and bored, with little to do. Finally, in desperation, the minister picked up an old magazine and thumbed through it until he came to a
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Contributed by George Rhodes on Apr 19, 2006
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An Arab chief tells a story of a spy who was captured and then sentenced to death by a general in the Persian army. This general had the strange custom of giving condemned criminals a choice between the firing squad and the big, black door. As the moment for execution drew near, the spy was brought
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Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Sep 27, 2006
In the day of horse and buggies, a father went to the school house to pick up his three children ages 9, 11, and 17. As soon as he had them in the buggy--just before he stepped in--probably out of fear of the storm, the horses bolted and took off in the blizzard. Hours and miles later, when he
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Contributed by Sherry Proskine on Aug 23, 2007
Many years ago a man was sailing from Ireland to England and as the ship entered the harbor in the evening, all that could be seen was a confusing array of lights. He wondered how the captain could hope to navigate into the harbor safely with such confusion, so he asked him. The captain took him
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Contributed by Jesse Roncales on Mar 30, 2010
Dr. Earl Radmacher said in his book, SALVATION,
‘The Law of Moses was not a means of deliverance from the penalty of sin. The Law was given that mankind might have a vivid
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 14, 2021
PLEASE COME BACK HOME...
Max Lucado, in his book, No Wonder They Call Him Savior, tells the story of Maria and her daughter, Christina that touches the heart and shows the mercy of God.
Longing to leave her poor Brazilian neighborhood, Christina wanted to see the world. Discontent with a home
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A farmer got saved and on the side of his barn he had a big sign which read "chew mail pouch." He realized it had to go. So he painted it white and then big letters which read "JESUS SAVES!" But in a few months the rain began to wash the cheap paint off and the "chew
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I’ve heard author Frank Peretti compare our culture’s hunger for biblical absolutes to the need for authority on a neighborhood playground in the summertime. Posted on the fence of the playground are some rules: “No hitting. No profanity. Only age ten and under on the monkey bars. Only age eight
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A few years ago we were at a small church in Piggott, Arkansas. I was watching TV one afternoon and they had this segment called “in the garden” – it was right before the first freeze of the season. He looks straight at the camera and says, “If you to have tulips in the spring – you must plant them
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Contributed by Jim Miller on Nov 3, 2003
In the movie "The Matrix," at the beginning when Morpheus reveals the truth about the matrix to Neo (the red pill, blue pill scene). It’s a great picture of the world of sin, and people being blind
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Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Aug 16, 2001
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Assumptions can be quite dangerous. For example, the photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fire. Smoke at the scene hampered him and he asked his home office to hire a plane. Arrangements were made and he was told to go at once to a nearby airport, where
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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Em Griffin writes, in Making Friends, about three kinds of London maps: The street map, the map depicting throughways, and the underground map of the subway. "Each map is accurate and correct," he writes, "but each map does not give the complete picture. To see the whole, the three maps must be
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