Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 28, 2022
A man came home from work and found his three children outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the yard. The door of his wifes car and front door to the house were open and there was no sign of the dog.
Proceeding into the entry, he
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Jun 2, 2008
The Water (Anonymous)
It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving milk. The creeks and streams were long gone back into the earth. It was a dry season that would bankrupt several farmers before it was
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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WHOEVER GETS THE SON GETS IT ALL
The story is told about a wealthy man and his only son - both of whom loved to collect rare works of art! They had everything - from the late great Andalusian-Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor, Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) to the late great Italian painter
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Contributed by Grant Macdonald on Nov 14, 2011
MISTAKEN FOR JESUS
Jeff Walling tells the story of Darrel. Darrel was a forty year-old youth worker. One service a month, the youth in his church went to Hokem Manor, which was an old age home. The old people would be wheeled in for the service. Some of them were aware, and others of them weren't.
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on May 23, 2024
Just an Old Shoebox
It was just an old shoebox,
With a pink faded ribbon wrapped around.
The old house was sad and sat strangely quiet,
Ever since Momma graced Heaven’s dawn.
It’s like she had just turned loose of living,
To dutifully follow Dad on.
Brother and I had moved things for
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Contributed by Bill Prater on Jan 21, 2001
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In an article dated 4/9/97, a writer for USA Today wrote:
Scientists now say that a series of slits, not a giant gash, sank the Titanic.
The opulent, 900-foot cruise ship sank in 1912 on its first voyage, from England to New York. Fifteen hundred people died in the worst maritime disaster of
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Contributed by Mark Beaird on Nov 2, 2000
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Ann Landers had this to say about the letters that she has received over the years. "I’ve learned plenty-including, most meaningfully, what Leo Rosten had in mind when he said, ’Each of us is a little lonely, deep inside, and cries to be understood.’ I have learned how it is with stumbling,
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Contributed by Bill Lobbs on Nov 4, 2000
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There are six varieties of wounds that a person can receive in their body.
Abrasive wound - Where the skin is scraped off. This can result from stumbling or by carrying a rough object or by a glancing blow
Confused wound - caused by a heavy blow.
Incised wound - produced by a knife or spear or
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jul 19, 2001
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[Education in the Red-Light District, Citation: Joseph Aldrich, "How to Be a Redemptive Person," Preaching Today, Tape No. 113.]
When my wife and I went to Dallas Seminary, we decided we wouldn’t live in the "cemetery" housing.
Instead, we lived in the high-class, red-light district.
If you want
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In the 18th Century, Selina Countess of Huntington invited the Duchess of Buckingham to come and here George Whitfield preach.
The Duchess wrote to the Countess of Huntington about the Gospel that Whitefield and his fellow “Methodists” preached as follows:
“ It is monstrous to be told that you
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 8, 2001
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In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, is a grave on which were placed huge slabs of granite and marble cemented together and fastened with heavy steel clasps. It belongs to a woman who did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. Yet strangely, she directed in her will that her grave be made so
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 25, 2002
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Ill: French novelist and playwright Alexander Dumas once had a heated quarrel with a rising young politician. The argument became so intense that a duel was inevitable. Since both men were very fast and superb shots they decided to draw lots, the loser agreeing to shoot himself. Dumas lost. Pistol
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2002
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Common Lies
The check is in the mail. I'll start my diet tomorrow. We service what we sell. Give me your number and the doctor will call you right back. Money cheerfully refunded. One size fits all. This offer limited to the first 100 people who call in. Your luggage isn't lost, it's only
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Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 25, 2002
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Ann Landers had this to say about the letters that she has received over the years. "I’ve learned plenty-including, most meaningfully, what Leo Rosten had in mind when he said, ’Each of us is a little lonely, deep inside, and cries to be understood.’ I have learned how it is with stumbling,
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Jul 28, 2003
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I remember a skit at camp several years ago. There was a fence that one girl sat on. Someone tried to convince her to be saved, but she wouldn’t go. Someone else tried to lead her to open, indulgent, flagrant sin, and she wouldn’t do that either. She was content to sit on the fence.
Then the
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