Contributed by Todd Catteau on May 30, 2023
Don’t you just love spring? It’s simply glorious. Trees blooming. Plants blossoming. It’s all so beautiful. Unless of course you were looking at my front yard earlier this year.
Last summer we bought three bushes that looked so promising. The leaves were supposed to turn all kinds of spectacular
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 22, 2025
[174]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – I WAS WOKEN OUT OF SLEEP
11 August 2025. I had the most terrible dream. It was so involved and graphic, and it was like justice was closing in on me for some heinous crime though I knew I was innocent yet oscillating with on and off with guilt. I want to forget
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Contributed by Brian Mavis on Oct 27, 2000
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You share Christ by imitating Christ. A story is told – by Fredrick Beuchner I believe – called “The Happy Hypocrite." It is a story about a man who was born with an awful facial deformity. He grew up alone and lonely. When reaching adulthood, he decided to move from his town to begin a new life.
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 27, 2006
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Story – Jerusalem Police.
Who is the most arrested person in the city of Jerusalem?
Moses.
Jesus is second most arrested.
Jerusalem police arrest, everyday, on average 11 people claiming to
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Contributed by Jung Lee on Jan 20, 2024
In a humorous yet thought-provoking comment, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson critiqued movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Moonfall' for violating more laws of physics per minute than any other movies. This observation serves as an interesting analogy for our spiritual lives. Much like
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WHAT'S A PARABLE?
Some have defined the word parable as "a story by which something real in life is used as a means of presenting a moral thought." Others have said a parable "puts the known next to the unknown so that we may learn." They are usually a story or a narrative taken from nature or
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 13, 2009
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JUSTIN
I want to tell you about a 12-year-old boy we’ll call Justin. Justin never knew anything good. His parents, if you want to call them that, were completely without qualifications to birth the boy, having done so quite unintentionally, making far less effort to raise him than they made to
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Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Feb 12, 2019
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Try to imagine this. It is the year 1944 and Germany is at war with England.
Now suppose you have dual citizenship in both Germany and England and you are living in Germany. How will you be treated?
Conversely, suppose you have dual citizenship in both Germany and England and you are living in
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‘Twas the night before Jesus came and all through the house
Not a creature was praying, not one in the house.
Their Bibles were lain on the shelf without care
In hopes that Jesus would not come there.
The children were dressing to crawl into bed,
Not once ever kneeling or bowing a head.
And Mom in
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 15, 2008
A young pastor put much effort into his sermons and ministry. He found some success and his ministry grew and people applauded his efforts. But all the while, his family struggled spiritually and his neighbors’ lives were falling apart. After several years, he finally realized that he had missed
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 7, 2008
The power of Easter is not just a one shot deal… it is an everyday deal as we allow the Lord to open our eyes and minds and thus our hearts and souls to the love and grace of God through Christ.
Eat well today! Eat well everyday! Feed your soul
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
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Actor Jack Benney attracted his wife by sending her a red rose every day. They began to date and she received a red rose everyday of their courtship and he continued to send them every day for their married life. When he died, the roses kept coming every day. His wife contacted the florist to
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Contributed by Lisa Delay on Sep 8, 2005
The heroes of this world think not of self. Think of the everyday heroes or rescue workers we hear of these days. They see what needs to be done, or who needs to be saved and they do it before they analyze their role in the matter. It is in that act of forgetting our self, in a constructive way of
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Let’s face it. We’ve been created with a multitude of moods, passions, and desires. They all need managing. They must be under control or they will end up controlling us. Lewis Smedes says that self-control is like the “conductor of a symphony orchestra.” Under the conductor’s baton the multitude
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Dec 31, 2023
The Story of Denise and Diane
One Sunday morning many years ago, as I pastored in Massachusetts, a lady attended our church for the first time. At the end of the service, at the time of the invitation, she came to the altar. I noticed that one of our ladies prayed with her. After the service, as I
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Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Sep 11, 2024
A bit of an aside, when we were in Sri Lanka, I had the opportunity to attend the opening of one of the well projects in the east. Rochelle went to all of them because she ran the projects. The reason these wells were being placed in villages was because many people in the East didn’t have a good
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Contributed by Todd Pugh on Jan 14, 2008
What would you think about a person who goes to the airport, with no luggage, no plans, they have no idea were they’re going and they only have enough money to by a one way ticket at random, they get on the plane and hope for the best? I would call that foolish.
Yet this is exactly what many do
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