Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
GRACE AND GEORGE WILLIAMS
Max Ellerbusch tells the story of the Friday six days before Christmas. He was working feverishly in his instrument repair shop so he could have all of the Christmas holiday at home with the family when the call came. His 5-year-old Craig had been fatally struck by a car.
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jan 16, 2020
While Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave many memorable quotations about freedom, civil rights, humankind and other critical issues, as a Christian pastor, some of his most notable quotes were on matters of faith.
1. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
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Title: What’s in your heart? What’s in your wallet?
Matthew 7:24
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
(illustration ) Let me tell you a story of 2 men. One, we will call Jim, and the other we will
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THE RIDE HOME FROM COCO BEACH
We were driving back to the hotel at 70 miles an hour on the interstate when a major rain storm hit, we could hardly see and then it happened. It was like something right out of Nascar - cars going airborne spinning and crashing into each other. I watched cars right
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 5, 2001
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In one of his lighter moments, Benjamin Franklin penned his own epitaph.:
The Body of B. Franklin, Printer
Like the Cover of an old Book
Its contents torn out,
And stript of its Lettering and Guilding,
Lies here, Food for Worms,
But the Work shall not be
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Wesleyan
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Lord Nelson of England was about to enter an important battle. He heard that two of his officers were at odds with each other. He called them in and said, Gentlemen, give me your hands. The two captains put their hands in the Commander¡¦s hands,
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United Methodist
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There was a man named Don Quixote. Don got a horse and a sword and when off to fight giants? Don thought windmills were giants and wasted his efforts and skills not on the enemy, but tilting windmills. He was so determined to fight windmills and kill them all.
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Johnny Carver on Apr 12, 2002
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Helen Keller was born blind and deaf. She was brought to a minister to explain the plan of salvation to her. In the simplest of terms the minister told the girl about Jesus. As she heard the Gospel, her face lit up and she spelled out in the hand of the
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 25, 2002
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The great Scottish Bible expositor Alexander MacLaren once wrote: ‘we may have as much of God as we will. Christ puts the key of the treasure-chamber into our hand, and bids us take all that we want. If a man is admitted into the bullion vault of a bank and
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Mennonite
Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Jul 7, 2003
72% of teens who reported having sexual intercourse said they did it in the homes of their parents or their partners parents. Six out of ten of those having sex in homes believe their parents know about their sexual behavior. When parents say nothing about wrong
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Contributed by Douglas Vincent on Jan 27, 2004
In Saint Augustine’s Confessions, he describes looking out his window at his neighbors pears, and even though he has pear trees of his own he desires to have them. So he jumps the fence and steals the pears. Then when he tastes them
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Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Jul 23, 2004
Matthew Henry, comparing the lawyer to those who come to church out of curiosity, merely to see what is being said but not to take it to heart themselves and make it part of their lives, he says: “It is not enough to speak of the things of God, and to enquire
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