Contributed by Bobby Oliver on Sep 11, 2017
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When I was in Kindergarten, the teachers taught me the Alphabet. Obviously, before you can learn how to spell, you have to learn the alphabet. As you learn to spell words, you learn that the letters are written separate, so you lift your pencil up every time you write a letter.
Then, when I was
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2002
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STONE AND SAND
A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 8, 2011
"LAMB OVER ME"
In his book “Eternity in their Hearts”, Don Richardson a Missionary writes of cultural compasses in other cultures and their language that point to one and only one person, Jesus, preparing the way for the Gospel to be heard.
He tells the story of Robert Morrison who landed in
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Contributed by Pat Damiani on Jun 20, 2006
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A little boy wanted $100 very badly. He prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. So, he decided to write a letter to God requesting $100.
When the postal authorities received the letter to "God, USA", they decided to send it to the President. The President was so amused that he instructed his
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 16, 2007
The most powerful suggestion as to what and why Jesus was writing in the sand comes from William Barclay. He offers that ¡§Jesus was writing in the dust the sins of the very men who were accusing the woman.¡¨ To go on, ¡§Jesus was saying, ¡§Yes, you may stone her ¡V but only if you never wanted to
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 7, 2009
HE IS RISEN!
One Sunday morning a pastor was dressing for church and had the radio on listening to a local church service. Suddenly he heard to minister say, "It’s Easter, and it doesn’t make any difference if Christ be risen or not..."
Shocked, A.H. Ackley shouted, "It’s a lie! He is risen!"
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Contributed by Ken Henson on Sep 24, 2012
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THE BACHS WERE ONE
Anna married John when he was thirty-seven. She was only twenty. He had already married and had seven children. His first wife died. Anna bore him thirteen more children. She assisted him in his music work. She learned to copy out his manuscripts so that his students could take
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Contributed by John Gerald on May 5, 2005
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"Six hundred students at a university were asked to write on a piece of paper the most beautiful word in the English language.
422 wrote the
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 5, 2005
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Alice Matthews, in her wonderful book, “Preaching that Speaks to Women” writes:
“Women tend to define themselves morally in terms of relationships, and they also evaluate
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Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 1, 2006
“All that I think, all that I hope, all that I write, all that I live for, is based upon the divinity of Jesus Christ, the central joy
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 10, 2001
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It is sometimes argued (sadly) by Christians, “What’s wrong with buying a lottery ticket? What’s wrong with putting a few quarters into a slot machine?” The problem is that such spending supports and propagates an immoral, predatory and exploitative industry that destroys families and society. In
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OVERCOMING THE GREAT WALL
In ancient China, the people wanted to defend themselves from the barbaric hordes in the North and they built the Great Wall of China. It was too high to climb over, too thick to break down, and too long to go around. Very secure.
Yet during the first hundred years
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Lorenzo Edwards on Feb 20, 2008
And a lot of times when we think that the thief comes to steal us generally think that he comes to take some tangible things from us. You know something’s that we can feel something’s we can see. And when we think that, the enemy comes to kill we may generally think that he comes to kill our body
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Contributed by Glenn Durham on Mar 10, 2008
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I have a John Deere riding lawnmower which I really like and am proud of. With the mower came an instruction book, the truth which sets the mower free to do that for which it was created. Now suppose that I want to give my mower a special treat, since I am proud of it and want it to really cut well
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Contributed by C Jordan on Mar 24, 2008
ILLUSTRATION: Some time ago I saw a painting of an old burned-out mountain shack. All that remained was the chimney...the charred debris of what had been that family’s sole possession. In front of this destroyed home stood an old grandfather-looking man dressed only in his underclothes with a
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