Contributed by James Botts on Aug 29, 2002
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In Edgar Allan Poe’s story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” the main character committed murder. Unable to escape the haunting guilt of his deed, he begins to hear the heartbeat of the victim he has buried in his basement. A cold sweat covers him as he hears the beat-beat-beat of a heart, that goes on
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 2, 2005
A bird had no interest in learning the song its master wanted to teach it while its cage was full of light. Its master covered the cage to darken it. He then whistled the same song over and over until the bird learned it by heart. When it could repeat it note for note, the owner uncovered the cage
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So when the devil comes and says look at your thoughts, look at your actions and ways we can still respond and say “I look to Christ, I stand in his promises, it is his rightness that covers me, first find fault in Jesus before you drive me to despair my hope is in his blood and victory”
The devil
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 14, 2007
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The story is told of a man who was making his way across a snow-covered field to a bar. As he neared the bar, he happened to look back and notice that his little boy had followed him across the field by placing his little feet in his dad’s footprints. The little boy looked up and said rather
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Baptist
Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 25, 2007
Charlie Peace, a criminal in England, on the day he was being taken to his execution, listened to a minister reading from the Word. And when he found out he was reading about heaven and hell, he looked at the preacher and said, "Sir, if I believed what you and the church of God say, and even if
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Contributed by Brian Mavis on May 4, 2001
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WHAT DO YOU DO ALL DAY?
One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house. His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard.
The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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THE CAT WITH LIMITED VISION.
There was a beautiful pedigreed cat that lived in a hugh mansion on a hill. The cat had everything.
The cat was warm in the cold winter, cool in the hot summer. The cat had a choice of food: fresh tuna,
beef, or pork. The cat ate out of silver dishes. The cat drank
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Feb 14, 2006
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The young woman was married and had 2 beautiful children, but one day as she was standing over the sink, washing dishes, she thought, ‘There must be more to life than this.’ When her husband came home, he found a note she’d written and began to weep. She would call him once every week to check on
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Contributed by Adam Deibert on Feb 11, 2005
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In a native village, it was discovered that there was a thief in thier midst. The chief decreed that whoever was caught stealing in the village would be punished with 15 lashes.
Late one night, the chief was awakened and told that the thief had been caught. To his horror, the chief discovered
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Perry Greene on Feb 13, 2013
IS YOUR CHURCH AN ENCYCLOPEDIA?
There is a story about a man who was walking down the street. He passed a used-book store, and in the window he saw a book with the title, "How to Hug."
He was taken by the title and, being of a somewhat romantic nature, went in to buy the book. To his chagrin, he
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Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Nov 27, 2007
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The story is told of an eastern ascetic holy man who covered himself with ashes as a sign of humility and regularly sat on a prominent street corner of his city. When tourists asked permission to take his picture, the mystic would rearrange his ashes to give the best image of destitution and
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Baptist
Story: A little boy came back from Sunday school one morning and his father asked him:.
“Well, what did you learn?”.
The little boy replied: “How the people of Israel were kept in Egypt and used as slaves by this guy called Pharaoh.”
“Oh?” said the father. “Then what happened?”
The little boy
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Anglican
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