Contributed by Bill Lobbs on Nov 4, 2000
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Does God really love us? I say look to the crucified Jesus. Look to the old rugged cross.
-By every thorn that punctured His brow.
-By every mark of the back lacerating scourge.
-By every hair of his beard plucked from his cheeks by cruel fingers.
-By every bruise which heavy fists made upon His
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Steve Malone on Mar 26, 2001
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A cartoon has been found in the ruins of ancient Rome showing how crazy the Christian message seemed to the people of that time. It’s a caricature of Jesus’ crucifixion, showing a man’s body hanging on a cross – but the body has a head of a donkey. Standing to left of this cross is a
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Mar 29, 2001
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I live in Guernsey in the Channel Islands. I remember back in the 1950s there was a short period of freak tides and currents around our coast that swept up great shoals of fish to the beaches. Before this phenomenon only relatively few people were interested in fishing but now it was so easy to
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Baptist
Contributed by Brian Mavis on May 15, 2001
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WHO IS GOING TO HEAVEN?
There is a growing tendency to believe that all good people, whether or not they consider Jesus Christ to be their savior, will live in heaven after they die on earth. In 1999 the public is almost divided on the matter: 53% agree, 40% disagree. This represents a
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on May 25, 2001
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Counterfit bills are never made in odd denominations($3 or $8 or $12) but are meant to imitate the real thing. At first glance they seem real, you may have passed them along without knowing it. But there is always something bogus about them, some blur or omition, something that doesn’t exactly
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 25, 2001
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Suppose there was a king who loved a humble maiden. The king was like no other king. Every statesmen trembled before his power. No one dared breathe a word against him, for he had the strength to crush all his opponents. And yet this mighty king was melted by love for a humble maiden.
How could
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2001
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When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, I am told that the captain of the ship transporting him sought to turn him back. "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go
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Contributed by Brian Mavis on Aug 29, 2001
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The United States Women’s Softball team won the gold medal in Atlanta’s 1996
Olympic games. They lost only one game. In the fifth inning against
Australia, Danielle Tyler hit a home run over the center-field fence. When
she was greeted by a swarm of well-wishing teammates at home plate she let
the
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Oct 11, 2001
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Illus.: “The Furnace Keeper”
One of the ancient kings of Persia loved to mingle with his people in disguise. Once, dressed as a poor man, he descended the long flight of stairs, dark and damp to the tiny cellar where the fireman, seated on ashes, was tending the furnace.. The king sat down
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Marcus Naugler on Nov 21, 2001
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Once upon a time, the animals decided they should do something meaningful to meet the problems of the new world. So they organized a school. They adopted an activity curriculum of running, climbing, swimming and flying. To make it easier to administer the curriculum, all the animals took all the
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Nov 29, 2001
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Have you noticed that the more mature believers have a greater capacity to see hidden blessings in hardships and difficult subjects? Norm Cousins, a teacher at the Univeristy of Calif. Medical School in Los Angeles, noticed an amazing irony in his younger students’ perceptions. It seems that
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Contributed by Michael Elmore on Nov 29, 2001
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Missionary Don Richardson who served for many years among the primitive tribes in Papua New Guinea wrote a book entitled “The Peace Child.” He writes how in translating the Scriptures into the native tribesmen language, he could find no words to express how Jesus Christ came to give His life that
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Methodist