Contributed by Engleburg Toney on Jan 18, 2010
MOST SEGREGATED HOUR OF THE WEEK
Time magazine, in its January 11, 2010 issue, had an article in it about what a Chicago megachurch was doing to integrate its congregation. It even cited a quote from Dr. King. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared that "11 o’clock Sunday morning is the
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Seventh-Day Adventist
DYING IN THE OCEAN OF GRACE
Dr. Gerstner, "Christ has done everything necessary for his [sinners] salvation. Nothing now stands between the sinner and God but the sinner's good works. Nothing can keep him from Christ but his delusion that he has good works of his own that can satisfy God. If men
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Baptist
WHITENING FAST
When Dr. Rees was waiting to preach, a friend commended to him, "You sure are whitening fast!" He got up and said this from the pulpit: "There is a little white flower that comes up through the earth at this season of the year - sometimes it comes up through the snow and frost; but
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WE STUDY THE BIBLE TO LISTEN TO HIS VOICE
"We study the Bible to listen to His voice that comes from outside our experience, not to listen to our own voice that is crying from within.
"His Word is not one of many. It is the only Word that has been there from all eternity because it comes from
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Davon Huss on May 5, 2009
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Signs You’re in a Bad Church
10. The church bus has gun racks.
9. The church staff consists of Senior Pastor, Associate Pastor and Socio-pastor.
8. The Bible they use is the "Dr. Seuss Version."
7. There’s an ATM in the lobby.
6. The choir wears leather robes.
5. Worship services are B.Y.O.S.:
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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Being from Dallas, Texas, I am pretty used to seeing the Texas Longhorns football games and also driving in the huge Texas countryside and seeing the big Texas Longhorn bulls in large, open pastures.
But did you know that some pastors actually preach Texas Longhorn sermons?
What is that?? A
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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One Sunday, a monk was invited to speak about the ‘love of God.’ He waited until it is dark and proceeded in the altar with a lighted candle. He first illumined the crown of thorns then the two hands that are nailed after that he continued to light the spear wound in the side and lastly he put the
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
A Note written by one of the miners who died in the West Virginia mining accident was made public. ‘Tell all I’ll see them on the other side," family members say one scrawled note, found with the body of 51-year-old mine foreman
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Jan 18, 2007
The great slave preacher John Jasper got carried away in a sermon on heaven. He talked about rambling down the streets of glory and talking to Moses and David and Paul. And then he said, “And now I will ramble down the side streets to find the cabin in which the good Lord set up my mother in
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Baptist
Contributed by Tim White on Jun 19, 2009
ALL THAT WORK FOR WHAT?
In November 1975, 75 convicts started digging a secret tunnel designed to bring them up at the other side of the wall of Saltillo Prison in northern Mexico. On April 18, 1976, guided by pure genius, they tunneled up into the nearby courtroom in which many of them
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 27, 2007
Helen P. Mrosla -a teaching nun p44-46 Maxwell Person of Influence
Helen taught Mark Eklund in third grade and again in junior high math. One Friday the lesson wasn’t going well and the class was bickering, so Helen asked the kids to make a list of all the kids in the class and write the nicest
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Doug Lyon on Jan 12, 2001
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I read the story of two friends in World War I who were inseparable. They had enlisted together, trained together, were shipped overseas together, and fought side-by-side in the trenches. During an attack, one of the men was critically wounded in a field filled with barbed wire obstacles. He was
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Contributed by Scott Cox on Nov 4, 2000
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DL Moody was a great evangelist from Chicago. He went to England once and met a young man there that wanted to preach in his church. Moody agreed thinking that he would never see him again. To his dismay he recieved a letter that said the young man would be in his town shorlty and wanted to take
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