Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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Warren Wiersbe tells a story of when he was a young man preaching on the last days with all the events of prophecy clearly laid out and perfectly planned. At the end of the service an older gentleman came up to him and whispered in his ear, “I used to have the Lord’s return planned out
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Baptist
Contributed by Donny Granberry on Feb 17, 2008
ILLUSTRATION
Andy Griffith Show.
Episode where a bully was taking Opie’s milk money.
Andy told him, there will be a lot of bully’s in the world; you have got to stand up to them.
He stood up to the bully, got a black eye, and lit into that bully like a
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 27, 2007
Here’s maximum effort, giving it everything you’ve got. Determination, perseverance. Allow me to let Hitch, the date Doctor, to define this principle for us.
{Video Clip: Hitch - Start: Chp. 9: 32:55 - End: 35:00 = 2:05}
Did you hear Hitch’s definition? “Perseverance is
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Christian Church
Contributed by Tony Abram on May 25, 2009
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1. I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. Albert Camus
2. To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. John W. Gardner
3. When we come to the end of life, the question
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Contributed by Jesse Roncales on Mar 4, 2010
A man who was sentence to death but obtained a delay of execution by assuring the king he would teach his majesty’s horse to fly within a year --- in the condition that if he failed he would be put to death at the end of the year. The man hoped that within a year a king may
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 9, 2012
THE SHIP OF THE CHURCH
In Wheat That Springeth Green, author J.F. Powers has one of his characters say, "This is a big old ship. She creaks, she rocks, she rolls, and at times she makes you want to throw up. But she gets where she’s going. Always has, always
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 10, 2007
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ILLUSTRATION: “No Use but Useful”
Elderly Sister Ann in China was born into quite an educated family. She had four brothers who all became doctors. She, however, was not even taught how to read and write. She began to train as a nurse, but her father fell ill and she was required to nurse him.
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Other
Contributed by Darren Rogers on Jan 11, 2008
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There is a story about an old farmer whose mule fell into a well. After many unsuccessful attempts to haul the mule out of the hole, the farmer decided it was hopeless. With sadness, he instructed his boys to fill up several truckloads of dirt and just bury the old mule right in the well. The boys
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Baptist
Contributed by Pat Cook on Feb 7, 2006
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Let me tell you about C.S.Lewis, the author of the Chronicles of Narnia. In 1952 he had been writing to one of his fans an American woman named Joy Gresham, a recent convert to Christianity, and who had been a Communist Jew. She was also going through a hard divorce. He autographed her copy of his
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Contributed by Steven Angus on May 31, 2006
William Hinson, Sr. retired pastor of First United Methodist Church in Houston, the largest church in American Methodism, tells the story about a time when he was going to Columbia, South Carolina to preach in a revival. He had not slept well the night before and had gotten up that morning and
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United Methodist
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Oct 25, 2002
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[Seared Conscience, Citation: J. Douglas Burford, Mission, Kansas]
During my college years—in my infinite wisdom—it occurred to me that it made no sense to stop at red traffic lights when there was clearly no traffic around.
So I began to stop only briefly—just long enough to
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 1, 2007
Not A Time For Weak-Hearted Preaching
By Fred Jackson and Jody Brown
November 22, 2002
(Agape Press) - A well known Bible teacher and author is calling on pastors to confront false beliefs from the pulpit. John MacArthur says no epoch in history has witnessed the rise of as many dangerous belief
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
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Here at our congregation, Larry Pierce has often shared about his auto accident that brought him back to Jesus. He had been a Christian years ago but had wandered away and lived his life without God.
Then one day, he was driving a pick up truck down a road in Kentucky. He was towing another truck
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
Here at our congregation, Larry Pierce has often shared about his auto accident that brought him back to Jesus. He had been a Christian years ago but had wandered away and lived his life without God.
Then one day, he was driving a pick up truck down a road in Kentucky. He was towing another truck
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Apr 27, 2008
COMING OUT OF THE SEWER
I remember a documentary, it was about a Christian agency that worked with children who lived in sewers - somewhere in eastern Europe - the work of the agency is to re-house these kids - a chance for a new life away from the darkness and filth of the sewers into foster
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More than a decade ago, Matt Thom, a few helpful young teens and me conceived of and set in motion a tree house for our back yard. The tree had a great section where branches came together but it wasn’t large enough for a good side platform. Instead, we placed four 12’ pressure treated 4x4’s around
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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