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God warns us against thinking we can help ourselves without him. In Jeremiah 17:5, the prophet tells us,
“This is what the Lord says: ‘Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans and turn their hearts away from the Lord.’”
And in Proverbs 28:26 (NIV), we read,
“He who trusts in
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Contributed by Otis Nixdorf on Nov 16, 2007
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(Psalms 40:1-3) I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 18, 2007
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We Forgot to Bait the Hooks
I have a friend who took his little six-year-old boy fishing with him one day. They put out the line and then went up to the cabin. After an hour, they went back down to the river to see if they had caught anything.
Sure enough, there were several fish on the
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Baptist
Contributed by Darrin Fish on Dec 12, 2007
The story of the candy cane
• A Candy maker in Indiana wanted to make a candy that could be used as a witnessing tool, so he made the Christmas Candy Cane.
• He incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus.
• He began with stick of pure white, hard candy.
• White to
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Christian Church
Contributed by Scott Carroll on Mar 8, 2008
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There was a little fellow who was returning home from a store with a pail of honey in his hand. A gentleman who walked beside him saw him slip one finger down into the pail. Then, because his mother had told him never to wipe his sticky fingers on his blouse or trousers, it found its only logical
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Brian Harvison on Aug 2, 2008
single man named Jerry had a pet cat that he loved very much.
One year, he decided to take a vacation to England, so he left his cat with his brother Dan.
As soon as Jerry got to England, he called his brother Dan.
“How is my cat?” he asked.
“Your cat is dead,” Dan said.
“Oh my!” he shouted. “I’m
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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CELEBRATION FIRES
During the dark winter of 1864, at Petersburg, Virginia, the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee faced the Union divisions of General Ulysses S. Grant. Late one evening one of Lee's generals, Major General George Pickett, received word that his wife had given birth to a beautiful
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THE SIMPLE STORY
Last week, I met in the worship center with the four-year-olds from the school and we talked about what pastors do. After I was done showing them my robe and stoles and my private Communion kit and talking about the different places a pastor stands in church to talk about Jesus, I
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Lutheran
Contributed by Andy Grossman on Jan 29, 2009
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HEAVEN: TITANIC
Last Sunday, right after church, when I got home tired and emotionally spent, I plopped into my easy chair and turned the TV on. The last few minutes of "Titanic" was on. In the conclusion, Rose (played by Kate Winslet) is an old woman. She lost the love of her life in the sinking
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Holiness
Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 2, 2009
COME HELL OR HIGH WATER
Glen and Jo Ann live in Orange County, California in a low lying area. It flooded one year and the local newspaper sent a reporter, in a boat, out to Glen and Jo Ann’s neighborhood. The reporter found Jo Ann, sitting on their roof watching large objects floating by, so he
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Christian/Church Of Christ
DON'T TAPE THE TREES
I was talking to a man a few years back, and he told me how he used to have a farm and how he had tried to grow different things to make money. Well, one day he said he hired a young guy to mow his lawn ,but he explained to him that he had just planted about fifty Christmas
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Baptist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 16, 2009
BEST SPEEDING-TICKET EXCUSE
A convention of Arkansas State troopers was asked to submit the best excuse they’d ever heard for someone trying to get out of a speeding ticket. The winning entry was submitted by a trooper who clocked a semi-tractor truck speeding down the interstate. The trooper
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 14, 2021
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Back in 1860, an excursion boat on Lake Michigan collided with a freighter and began to sink less than a mile from the shore.
Hundreds of passengers began screaming as they leaped into the icy water.
Edward Spencer was a student at a nearby seminary, and he ran down to the beach to see what he
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