Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jan 30, 2018
                
                
                
                    *The early church kept moving ahead. And we can too! In spite of our enemies, in spite of the setbacks, we can still move forward for the Lord Jesus Christ!
*In February of 2007, a deadly tornado struck central Florida. And it smashed almost everything in its path. The storm struck at the worst
                    
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                    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
                
                
                
                    A number of years ago, Gladys and I were at a church where we worked, usually without help, trying to bring in the children and youth of the community.  We would pick up and teach children on Tuesday afternoons.  We picked up and taught youth on Wednesday afternoons, and then had prayer meeting on
                    
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                    Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 10, 2007
                
                
                
                    Dr. Pierce Harris was the long time pastor of First United Methodist Church in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Harris spoke one day at the state penitentiary. He was introduced to the prisoners by one of the inmates. In his introduction, the inmate said, “I want to tell you a story about two boys. 
•    They
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Jul 29, 2012
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Jesus reached out to uncomfortable people… and that made others uncomfortable.
ILLUS: When I was a young boy, my home church had a church bell that they rang every Sunday at 9:00 in the morning. 
 It was a college town, and one of the local college students had apparently been up “partying” the
                    
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                    Contributed by Darrell Jones on Mar 1, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Living Thief.
A minister tells the story of a preacher who asked a man why he did not join the church..The reply was that the dying thief did not join the church and he was saved. "Well," said the minister, "if you do not belong to a church, perhaps you help by supporting missions?"  "No," said the
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Nov 24, 2008
                
                
                
                    The recent problems in our economy can be used as a wakeup call for us all.  Maybe this current anxiety will turn many eyes toward God.  The church is often at its best in tragedy and calamity.  In 1867, many banks and factories were closing in America.  Because of these problems, Jeremiah Lanphier
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009
                
                
                
                    When a nightclub opened on Main Street, the only church in that small town organized an all-night prayer meeting. The members asked God to burn down the club. Within a few minutes, lightning struck the club, and it burned to the ground.
 
The owner sued the church, which denied responsibility.
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
                
                
                
                    WASTE MORE TIME
In his book God Came Near, Max Lucado tells this story:
Norman Geisler, as a child, went to a certain church because he was invited by some neighbourhood children. He went back to the same church for Sunday School classes for 400 Sundays. Each week he was faithfully picked up by a
                    
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                    THE ANGLICAN DOG
A man came to an Anglican Church and asked to see the Vicar. 
"Vicar," he said, "My dog died and I would like a Christian burial for him."
The Vicar said, "I'm sorry to hear about your dog, but we Anglicans don't do funerals for dogs. You might try the Baptist church down the
                    
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                    George Barna tells us that the emerging generation has no basic understanding of the Bible or even many of the stories of the Bible because their parents failed to teach them about the Lord and His Word. Their parents failed to
                    
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                    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 15, 2011
                
                
                
                    THE DRINKS ARE ON ME...?
In the summer of 2010 I was hanging on every word of Steve Chalke as he preached at the New Wine Summer Conference. He was talking about Jesus being the one who transforms people and transforms situations; and he was calling the Church to once again become fully involved
                    
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                    THE GOSPEL IS OFFENSIVE
There is something about the gospel that is inherently offensive. I don’t like saying that, and you may not like hearing it. But it is incontestable. The gospel puts some people off.
Take David and Roland, two high school friends of mine. David was what you might call a
                    
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                    Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Nov 27, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    George Whitefield asked a man, ‘Sir what do you believe? 
 I believe what my church believes.’ What does your church believe?  It believes what I believe.  And what
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One Sunday morning an old cowboy entered a church just before services were to begin. Although the old man and his clothes were spotlessly clean, he wore jeans, a denim shirt and boots that were very worn and ragged. In his hand he carried a worn out old hat and an equally worn out bible.
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