Contributed by Peter Loughman on May 18, 2007
In 1989 the SF Bay Area suffered a great earthquake. Katie and I were living there at the time. Growing up there, I had experienced many, many earthquakes – this was the first earthquake where I was truly frightened. After the earthquake I heard many stories about different people’s experiences.
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Contributed by Art Good on Jul 26, 2007
Recently I read about a Pastor who had a thorn. He had just started - getting involved in teaching and preaching and sensing that it might be some area of calling for him.
It was on a Sunday morning at this church and five minutes into his message he started to get dizzy and woozy and the room
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Glenn Durham on Apr 8, 2008
The April 2008 Newsletter from Timberdoodle (a supplier for homeschooling families) noted a problematic teaching in a Children’s Study Bible used in Sunday school. Referring to Matthew 3.12, the footnote said, “This means that Jesus will come to separate the good people from the bad people, saving
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by N A on Mar 16, 2008
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On a dangerous seacoast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a little life-saving station. The building was primitive, and there was just one boat, but the members of the life-saving station were committed and kept a constant watch over the sea. When a ship went down, they
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 17, 2001
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Reported in USATODAY.COM on Saturday April 27, 2001 at FRUITPORT, Mich. (AP) — At the funeral for his wife and infant daughter, an American missionary said he has forgiven the Peruvian pilot who shot down their small plane and said his wife would have done the same.
"I’m not bragging about my
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 31, 2001
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NEW ORLEANS (BP)--An explosive new study says some gay people can turn straight if they really want to. Robert L. Spitzer, a psychiatry professor at Columbia University who led the study, said he couldn’t estimate what percentage of highly motivated gay people can change their sexual orientation
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on Nov 20, 2002
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that has spread over the last 20 years in countries all over the world. Already more than 33 million people throughout the world are infected. More than 14 million have died.
HIV is a virus. Illnesses caused by a virus cannot be cured by antibiotics.
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 2, 2003
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WHY DO YOU DO THAT?
I’m thinking of a small-town church in upstate New York.
They’d had a rector in that church for over thirty-five years.
He was loved by the church and the community.
After he retired, he was replaced by a young priest.
It was his first church; he had a great desire to do
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 14, 2005
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Let’s pretend that somewhere, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was a planet of crooked people. They didn’t differ much from one another as they were all crooked in the same way. What we call their left arm was bent in a peculiar way that was very unlike what we’d call their right
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Orthodox
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 16, 2007
Let me relate Pastor Knute Larson’s parable about life and mortality.
There was a man who jumped from the top of the Empire State Building. That’s 97 floors up. (Or down, which is the way he was looking.)
That reminds me of people who are always saying that Christians are funny and sin is
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Pentecostal
BARNA ON NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
When it comes to the types of resolutions people make, Americans not surprisingly focus on self-oriented changes. Among those planning to make resolutions, the top pledges for 2011 relate to weight, diet and health (30%); money, debt and finances (15%); personal
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 1, 2022
HOW MANY MISS THE POINT THAT THESE ARE TEENAGERS!
The Book of Daniel is about a young man and his teenage friends who grew up in a time when his country, Judah, southern tribes of Israel, was judged by God for their idolatry. God allowed the most ungodly leader and nation in the world, King
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Dr. Colbert states, “Your perceptions determine how you see the world. The mind is similar to a computer –the brain is the hard drive, and the perceptions are the ‘software.’ It is the perception of people, demands, issues, and circumstances-not the actual people, demands, issues, or circumstances
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