Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
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Kevin McHale, the former Boston Celtics basketball player spoke bluntly about
the troubles that followed NBA players though they had discovered sudden
wealth: "I don¡¦t think basketball is the answer to all problems. If a guy
comes into the league with a ton of problems, and they
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Evie Megginson on Mar 27, 2001
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David Brainerd, the famous missionary to the American Indians, proclaimed this truth throughout his ministry. He said, “I never got away from Jesus and Him crucified in my preaching. I found that once these people were gripped by the great evangelical meaning of Christ’s sacrifice
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Baptist
Contributed by Lance Bane on Aug 14, 2001
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A 300 lb. man could not lose any weight. He asked his minister for help. His minister told him to be ready at 8 a.m. the next morning. A young beautiful lady in a skin tight outfit showed up and said if you
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 8, 2001
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Somebody asked Winston Churchill one time what most prepared him to lead Great Britain through WW2? This was Churchill’s response: "It was the time I repeated a class in grade school." The questioner said, "You mean you flunked a grade?" Churchill
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Apr 8, 2002
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Many people have a great deal of misconceptions about prayer. God is not a celestial vending machine that gives what we ask, when we put money in the offering box. God is not a heavenly genie who grants us three wishes when we rub Him in the
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Contributed by Jerry Falwell on May 15, 2002
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Bad news travels fast. Within two hours the whole world knew that President Kennedy had been killed, who killed him, where he was killed and how he was killed. Today, still half the world does not know the good news that Jesus died, where
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Baptist
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There is the story of a man who was on his horse galloping swiftly along the road. An old farmer standing in the fields seeing him pass by called out, "Hey, rider where are you going?" The rider turned around and shouted back, "Don’t ask me, just ask
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United Methodist
Contributed by Jim Luthy on Nov 12, 2002
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A.W. Tozer wrote, "Revivals come only to those who want them badly enough. The problem is not to persuade God to fill us, but to want God sufficiently to permit him to do so. The average Christian is so cold and so contented with his wretched condition that there is no vacuum of
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Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Nov 23, 2002
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John Wesley was asked what he would do if he knew his Lord would return at that time the next day. He said in effect, "I would go to bed and go to
sleep; wake up in the morning, and go on with my work, for I
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Feb 14, 2003
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Did you hear about the man who went to the doctor because he had a severe obesity problem? The doctor examined him very carefully, and said, “I have some good news and some bad news.” “The good news is that there is not anything wrong with your
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Baptist
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Sep 27, 2005
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Sin is not the things you do. Sin is an entity. It drives you to do the things that you do. It is like the White Witch’s Turkish Delight which she gave to Edmund. The more he ate the more he wanted…needed…but it never satisfied. Instead it
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Orthodox
Contributed by Charles Salmon on Sep 12, 2006
ILUS.: At one point in my early ministry, I was in the hospital emergency room with a Church family when a young man was brought in after a train wreck. His family refused to allow transfusions because or religious belief. He died while a court order was being pursued.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Michael Fritz on Nov 12, 2006
Worship isn’t listening to a sermon, appreciating the harmony of the choir, and joining in singing hymns! It isn’t even prayer, for prayer can be the selfish expression of an unbroken spirit. Worship goes deeper. Since God is spirit, we fellowship with him with our spirit; that is, the immortal
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Holiness
Contributed by Tony Searles on Nov 24, 2006
Hudson Taylor was scheduled to speak at a Large Presbyterian church in Melbourne, Australia. The moderator of the service introduced the missionary in eloquent and glowing terms. He told the large congregation all that Taylor had accomplished in China, and then presented him as "our illustrious
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