Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 8, 2002
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Living together before marriage is nothing more than “playing house.” It’s being shown that living together is not best. Charles Colson sites the National Survey of Families & Households. In that survey they came up with some startling data. It found that almost half of all couples who cohabit
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Christian Church
Contributed by Ron Crow on Jan 27, 2003
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A man called at the church and asked if he could speak to the Head Hog at the Trough. The secretary said, “Who?”
The man replied, “I want to speak to the Head Hog at the Trough!”
Sure now that she had heard correctly, the secretary said, “Sir, if you mean our pastor, you will have to treat him with
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Baptist
Contributed by Paul Kallan on Feb 15, 2003
I remember a young man by the name Mathew who was infected with Aids. He came back home, because he needed understanding, care and concern from the only ones who would dare to do so in such an extremely hopeless situation. To his horror, he found that his family was afraid and felt threatened by
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Catholic
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 10, 2003
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A sideshow strongman was exhibiting his prowess and as a final trick he squeezed the juice from a lemon between his hands and then offered ten dollars to anyone in the audience who could squeeze a single drop out of it. Several husky men tried, to no avail. Finally, a small bespectacled man came
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 24, 2003
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I worked in a hog-slaughtering factory for a year when I first came to plant this church. The boss’s adult son used to walk around wearing a white hat and barking orders at everyone but none of the workers respected him the way they did his dad. They knew he was just a pretender. If
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Mennonite
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Oct 29, 2003
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Many of you will probably recognize this song. “It make you want to go where everybody know your name, and they’re always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see our troubles are all the same. You wanna be where everybody knows your name.” The theme song for the 80’s TV sitcom “Cheers”
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Richard Tow on Dec 1, 2003
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The hope of heaven is a powerful strength for godly living that many people seem to virtually ignore in their daily lives. It was Myrtle Erickson who wrote:
Think of stepping on a shore and finding it heaven
of taking hold of a hand and finding it God’s hand
of breathing new air and finding it
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Charismatic
Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jan 19, 2004
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In my youth, I had an older friend named Phil. Phil barely made a living. He never had a high paying job. But he always had something to give to those in need. When someone with financial needs came to Phil for help, Phil would always give this advice along with the money they needed; "if you would
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Guy Glass on Mar 26, 2004
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Just getting out of the driveway was a major feat during last year’s snow and ice storms. One co-worker was relating how he used his seven-year-old son’s baseball bat to smash the slick coat of ice on his driveway. He got cold and went inside for a cup of coffee before attempting to clear the car.
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Contributed by Charles Salmon on Apr 12, 2004
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It’s been many years since I played golf, but I remember an incident that occurred when I was playing with some other preachers. I hit a tee shot and lost track of the ball. I was pretty sure it went into the rough and went there looking for it. As I searched, another golfer yelled from the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 26, 2004
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A REMARKABLE WORK
When Benjamin Franklin was the Ambassador to France, he occasionally attended the Infidels Club -- a group that spent most of its time searching for and reading literary masterpieces. On one occasion Franklin read the book of Ruth to the club, but changed the names in it so it
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Contributed by Ryan Davis on Sep 26, 2005
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An airline company was disturbed over a high percentage of accidents so they decided to eliminate human errors by building a completely computerized plane. "Ladies and gentlemen," came a voice over the PA during the initial flight, "It may interest you to know that you are traveling in the world’s
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Baptist
Contributed by Marty Boller on Oct 29, 2005
Is it dangerous to spend so much time talking about Narnia & Aslan?
One little girl named Hila wrote to Lewis asking him to tell her Aslan’s OTHER NAME. Lewis responded with clues from the stories.
“Well, I want you to guess. Has there ever been anyone in THIS world who…
Arrived at the same time
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Dan Waite on Dec 1, 2005
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Charlie Brown is struggling with Christmas. He can’t get the kids to do the program correctly. He’s adopted a puny tree which causes the other kids to ridicule him. When it seems like all is lost, Linus takes the stage and quotes the Christmas story from Luke 2.
Just when it seems that Israel
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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When their son left for his freshman year at Duke University, his parents gave him a Bible, assuring him it would be a great help. Later, as he began sending them letters asking for money, they would write back telling him to read his Bible, citing chapter and verse. He would reply that he was
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Mar 13, 2006
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Perhaps you heard of the large two-engined train was crossing Canada. After it had gone some distance, one of the engines broke down. "No problem," the engineer thought, and carried on at half power.
Farther on down the line, the other engine broke down, and the train came to a standstill.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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When their son left for his freshman year at Duke University, his parents gave him a Bible, assuring him it would be a great help. Later, as he began sending them letters asking for money, they would write back telling him to read his Bible, citing chapter and verse. He would reply that he was
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