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  • My Daughter Served As A Camp Counselor This ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Aug 26, 2003
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    My daughter served as a camp counselor this summer. It is a camp in which there are several camps contained in one location. She was a gap counselor and therefore served in several different ones. One camp is called Camp Sparrowood. It is a camp for the mentally challenged ages 8-99. She was ...read more

  • Twinkies And Root Beer - Unknown ...  PRO

    Contributed by Greg Buchner on May 23, 2005
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    [Illustration – Twinkies and Root Beer - unknown source] A little boy wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with Twinkies and a six-pack of Root Beer and he started his journey. When he had gone about three blocks, he met an elderly man. The ...read more

  • Cut To Fit!  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Aug 25, 2005
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    Cut To Fit! (08.29.05--Sickness!--Hebrews 12:6) Arthritis is a real drag. As active as you would like to be this day or any, if you are weighted down with joints that are sometimes swollen and often stiff, the day always seems sometime a bit longer, somehow harder to bear. I’ve been an arthritis ...read more

  • Head-Up And Head-On! (11.10.05--Christian ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 8, 2005
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    Head-Up and Head-On! (11.10.05--Christian Soldiers!--James4:7) When you are afraid to take an action, it’s the first step that’s the hardest one to take. Our little dachshund Webley is a living example of that. Webley has always been afraid of stairs. It doesn’t matter if he is going up or coming ...read more

  • A Short While Ago, Comic-Book Creator, Stan Lee ...  PRO

    Contributed by Gary Maskell on Aug 18, 2006
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    A short while ago, comic-book creator, Stan Lee and company created a 6-week reality-based television series entitled, "Who Wants to be a Superhero?" As a part of their initial search, they sent out nationwide notices stating that they were looking for folks who have never lost that inner drive to ...read more

  • The Words In Red In Many Bibles Are Neither More ...

    Contributed by Frederic Whittier on Nov 18, 2006
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    The words in red in many Bibles are neither more nor less important than the words in black. Jesus said to the seventy: "He that heareth you heareth me" (Luke 10:16). This was his position concerning every divinely inspired writer or speaker. While millions read the Bible daily, few know why some ...read more

  • British Airways 2069 Left Heathrow's London ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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    British Airways 2069 left Heathrow’s London Airport everything seemed to be going quite well at first. Six hours into the flight some of the passengers were asleep, some of the reading lights were on, everyone was comfortably settled in when suddenly everyone was jarred awake by a violent dip of ...read more

  • My Wife Christina And I Always Get Up Early To ...  PRO

    Contributed by Chris Surber on Dec 7, 2007
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    My wife Christina and I always get up early to shop the day after Thanksgiving. This year we drove to a hotel that evening so that we could get up at 3:00 A.M. to get in line at Toys ‘R’ us to catch the door buster sales that morning. This is something that we started doing years ago when we ...read more

  • I Recently Came Across A Chinese Parable That ...

    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Jun 19, 2008
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    I recently came across a Chinese parable that eludes to our thoughts for today’s text. It’s a tale about a water-bearer and his two pots of clay. An elderly peasant had two large clay pots. One of the pots had a crack down its side to a point about half way. The other pot, perfect! Each had been ...read more

  • Pastoral ...

    Contributed by Terry Laughlin on Aug 11, 2008
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    Pastoral Appreciation Pastors are very thankful to the Lord for every worker that God has given to the church of Jesus Christ. There is no greater blessing than to see obedient Christians exercise their gifts under the guidance of agape love. Whether it be the gift of helps, administration, ...read more

  • Story: In March 2004, I Was In The Second ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Nov 8, 2008
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    Story: In March 2004, I was in the second bookshop in Dymchurch rummaging through the books when I came across a second hand Jerusalem Bible. As I opened up the Bible, a number of loose leaf papers fell into my hand. And on one of them was written a story. It was obviously very meaningful to ...read more

  • Discernment—or Judgment?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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    DISCERNMENT--OR JUDGMENT? So how does a critical attitude come back to haunt you? Here’s one way. A man wanted to impress his friends with his eye for art as they went to an art gallery together. He forgot his glasses, was nearsighted, and couldn’t hardly see his hand in front of his face. But he ...read more

  • Why Am I So Exhausted?

    Contributed by Nigel Heath on Sep 15, 2009
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    WHY AM I SO EXHAUSTED? I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash ...read more

  • Little ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 18, 2010
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    Little Mirrors Robert Fulghum, in his book, It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It, tells how he found purpose in life. Fulghum, a former Episcopal priest, took a course on Greek culture at an Orthodox retreat center on the Island of Crete. A man named Alexander Papaderos built the center. After ...read more

  • Pastor Makes A Tough ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2010
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    Pastor Makes A Tough Decision In his book The Jesus Revolution, pastor and author Leith Anderson shares a story about the tension that sometimes comes between obeying God and obeying the law of the land. A number of years ago, he and three others were traveling to a Communist country where ...read more

  • The Crew Of Life-Savers

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 14, 2011
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    THE CREW OF LIFE-SAVERS Nantucket, Massachusetts is located next to important shipping lanes running along the East Coast. Toward the end of the 1800s sailing ships were in their heyday. Nantucket Island saw hundreds of vessels passing by each day—all navigating without the advantages of modern ...read more

  • St. Patrick: Stones Squashed In The Mud

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2011
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    ST. PATRICK: STONES SQUASHED IN THE MUD As a young boy Patrick lived a comfortable life near an English coastal city where his father was a deacon in their church. But at the age of 16, all that came to an end. Irish pirates attacked his village, abducting Patrick and many of the household ...read more

  • The Agony Of Defeat

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 28, 2012
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    "THE AGONY OF DEFEAT" Some of you might remember the TV program "The Wide World of Sports". For many years, the opening of the program opened like this: "Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport; the thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat." The opening illustrated "the ...read more

  • Unsung Heroes: He Told Abram That Lot Was Captured

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Jan 6, 2021
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    After leaving Egypt, Abram and Lot, his nephew, decided to separate from each other so that there would be enough to sustain each respective household. Genesis 13 tells the story, where, from Bethel, Lot went to the south and east, towards Sodom. Abram went south and west, settling near Hebron. At ...read more

  • Miracles Through Prayer In China

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Apr 15, 2024
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    In his book Sit, Walk, Stand, Watchman Nee describes a preaching mission to an island off the South China coast. There were seven in the ministering group, including a sixteen-year-old new convert whom he calls Brother Wu. The island was fairly large, containing about 6,000 homes. Nee had a contact ...read more