Contributed by Matt Neace on Sep 23, 2018
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In their song The Sound of Silence, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel sing the words, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and the tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence." But their friendship has come to replicate the sound of silence.
Paul Simon gave his final
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Aug 12, 2024
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If you seek your own glory you will lose that, and His. But, if you seek His, you will get yours directly from Him. We are all tempted, like the youth Narcissus in the Greek fable, to bend over the brook and fall in love with ourselves, and we get changed into flowers, and fade in an hour. But he
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 24, 2025
My name? Oh, I’m Steady—because that’s what Abraham always called me.
I’m not fast, I’m not fancy—but I can walk a long way without complaining.
I’ve carried all kinds of things for my master: water, wood, even tents through the desert wind.
But one morning, he packed something different—firewood
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Contributed by Tim Gibson on May 18, 2001
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Once I was praying for one of my Church members and the Lord gave me a picture of him carrying a sack with something kicking inside it. The Lord’s voice came very clearly saying ’Tell them to offer the person they are carrying as a burden to Me’ - this member said that he had been carrying
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Contributed by James O. Davis on Dec 5, 2001
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The year was 1872. The place was London, England. The evangelist was an obscure YMCA leader named D. L. Moody. People were being converted. The secret was a bed ridden lady named Mary Ann Adler. She had read a newspaper clipping about D. L. Moody in Chicago. She had prayed
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2001
But the most remarkable thing is this. Whenever you find a man who does not believe in a real right and Wrong, you will find this same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining
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A Muslim in Africa became a Christian and some of his friends asked him why.
He answered: Well, it is like this: suppose you were going down a road and suddenly the road forked in two directions. And you didn’t know which way to go.
If you met two men
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Anglican
Contributed by Robert Leroe on Jul 5, 2002
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A minister was visiting an elderly man, who’d been a Christian for most of his long life. The minister remarked, “Well sir, after keeping the faith for so long, you must feel pretty confident of holding out to the end.” The gentleman replied, “It’s not a matter of me
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Congregational
Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 26, 2002
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(adapted from John Gillmartin) One of the vilest corruptions of the Civil War was the hiring of surrogate enlistees. The rich abused the blessings of wealth by hiring others to defend their nation for them. In many cases the surrogate had no choice; he was either in debt to the coward who hired
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 7, 2002
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After an evening out, some parents returned home to their children, whom they had left with the baby sitter. They were pleasantly surprised to find the kids fast asleep. When the sitter had been paid—just as she was walking out the door—she communicated this detail: "Oops—almost forgot to
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Contributed by Ryan Yandris on Mar 8, 2003
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GOD WORKS IN THREE’S (foundations of grace) death, burial, resurrection; (the kingdom of God) righteousness, peace, Holy Ghost ;( the greatness of God) was, is, is to come ;( three manifestations of God) Father, Son, Holy Ghost ;( in him we) live, move, have our being ;( now abideth these)
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Contributed by David Taylor on Apr 23, 2003
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Bernard Shaw, the winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature, played the “What If” game before he died. A reporter asked him if he could live his life over, and be any person he has know, or any other person in history, who would he be? Mr. Shaw
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Tenney notes this: God’s name is significant in that, In the past he was with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. What was needed was not a name which disclosed that God was what He was, but that He is and will be in the future what He admittedly was in the past. The God of their fathers and, therefore, the
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“LOVE IS THE KEY”
(copyrighted by John Gaughan)
LOVE IS THE KEY, LOVE IS THE KEY
THOUGH I SPEAK IN TONGUES
OF ANGELS
LOVE IS THE KEY
LOVE IS PATIENT LOVE IS KIND,
NOT SELF SEEKING LOVE IS BLIND,
LOVE IS TRUTHFUL LOVE IS TRUST,
TO LOVE YOUR BROTHER IS A MUST.
LOVE CAN BREAK, BUT LOVE WILL
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Anglican
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 24, 2003
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A mother of a five-year-old girl was startled to find her going through a new Bible storybook and circling the word "God" wherever appeared on the page. Stifling her first reaction to reprimand the child for defacing a book, she quietly asked, "Why are doing that?" The
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 4, 2004
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“Another aspect of a fully surrendered life is trust. Abraham followed God’s leading without knowing where it would take him. Hannah waited for God’s perfect timing without knowing when. Mary expected a miracle without knowing how. Joseph trusted God’s purpose without
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