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Jim Jones – He started out as a pastor and became deceived and it lead to the death of 100’s.
This was a Christian destructive, doomsday cult founded and led by James Warren Jones (1931-1978). Jim Jones held degrees from Indiana University and Butler University. He was not a Fundamentalist pastor
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jun 4, 2007
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H. A. Ironside recounted his experience with work:
Illustration: Do All in the Name of the Lord Jesus
“Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Col. 3:17).
When I was a boy, I felt it was both a duty and a privilege to help my widowed mother make ends meet by finding employment in vacation time, on
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jan 4, 2008
Let me give you something else from Corrie ten Boom:
After the war she returned to Germany to declare the grace of Christ.
“It was 1947, and I’d come from Holland to defeated Germany with the message that God forgives. It was the truth that they needed most to hear in that bitter, bombed-out
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Nov 11, 2006
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A Baby’s Hug
We were the only family with children in the restaurant. I sat Erik in a highchair and noticed everyone was quietly sitting and talking. Suddenly, Erik squealed glee and said, "Hi." He pounded his fat baby hands on the high chair tray. His eyes were crinkled in laughter and his mouth
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At Christmastime, we set up our Christmas trees and toy trains. We may even walk along singing carols, or we may preach a sermon, but these bits and pieces are barren if we are thinking only of them or even thinking only of being in heaven, and are not stopping to ask ourselves, “What difference
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 13, 2025
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[198]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – O FOREST, HOW YOU WEEP IN PAIN
This is a serious poem and I like it very much. Like most of my poems it comes out of some personal experience.
If this was a musical composition it would be in a minor key. The summary is, “O forest, how you weep in pain, but
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Contributed by Peter Thelander on Oct 31, 2001
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Max Lucado tells the story of Bob, who was born into the land of coats! His mother loved the color blue and made Bob’s first cost a lovely shade of blue. Every time she noticed her son in his lovely blue coat, she cheered, "Yes, Bob!" He felt good in his blue coat, but Bob had to grow up and go to
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Our transformed lives should drive us to want to do what is good in our lives. Christianity Today / Sports Spectrum an Article by Rick Weber notes:
Bob McNair the man responsible for Super Bowl 38 being hosted in Houston has this to say about his faith in Jesus Christ and unfinished
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Steve Bouman tells the story We began to find our power as a congregation in New Jersey as a matter of being a place where you can go when there’s no where else to go. When you invite the poor and the homeless, they do come such as Edgar. He is by anybody’s standards a strange character. He lives
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Contributed by Terry Barnhill on Oct 10, 2004
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"Our Dungeons"
(by Rev. Terry L. Barnhill)
A story tells of a man who was imprisoned within an ancient stone dungeon. A grey shadowy jailor shook the iron lock on his daily rounds. It was the only sound that reminded the prisoner he was not alone in all the hopeless, dim and dying world of his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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What happens when we learn about a really bad guy repenting? It happens all the time in prison ministry, yet many of us think those people aren’t worth saving. They had more chances than most of us are willing to give them, yet God hasn’t given up on them.
Jeffrey Dahmer was a convicted murderer
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 22, 2008
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d) How does the earth compare in size and space to our sun’s closest neighbor star Proxima Centauri?
1. Proxima Centauri is a red dwar star and part of the Alpha Centauri star system. This closest neighbor is 4.22 light years away or 270,000 times farther than the earth is from the sun. If the
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