Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 9, 2002
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John Powell, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago writes about a student named Tommy in his Theology of Faith class:
Some twelve years ago, I stood watching my university
students file into the classroom for our first session
in the Theology of Faith. That was the day I first saw
Tommy.
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on May 17, 2001
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The backwoods preacher found a small boy all alone, playing in the dirt. “Where’s your
father?” the preacher asked. The boy said, “He was hanged last week.”
“Where’s your mother?” “She run off.”
“Where’s your sister?” “She’s in jail.”
“Is there anybody else in your family?” “Yup, I’ve got a
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Contributed by James O. Davis on Dec 5, 2001
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The year was the late 1700’s. The place was India. The missionary was William Carey. He was a shoe repairman. He had a world map on his wall. India became a burden to him. He left for India and spent 42 years there and translated the Bible into 25 different languages. He became the Father of
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Darren Ethier on May 21, 2002
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The message of the angels to the shepherds was that there was Good News! We like good news. We certainly don’t like bad news. A father came home from a very rugged day at work and said to his wife, "I’ve had a bad day. Please! If you have any bad news tonight, keep it to yourself." To which she
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Dan Cormie on Sep 15, 2003
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One Sunday evening, William Booth was walking in London with his son, Bramwell, who was then 12 or 13 years old. The father surprised the son by taking him into a saloon! The place was crowded with men and women, many of them bearing on their faces the marks of vice and crime; some were drunk. The
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Mennonite
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 23, 2004
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A minister was filling in for a vacationing teacher of the pre-teen class. The minister was telling them about the things money can’t buy. “It can’t buy happiness, genuine laughter and it can’t buy love.” Driving his point home he said, “What would you do if I offered you $1,000 not to love your
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 23, 2006
At the end of Charles Dickens’ book “A Christmas Carol”, Scrooge has realised the error of his stingy, miserly ways. Scrooge gets converted!
At the end of the book Dickens wrote this: “Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he became
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Anglican
Contributed by Steve Greene on Jan 23, 2006
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A minister was speaking about all the things money can’t buy. “Money can’t buy happiness, it can’t buy laughter and money can’t buy love” he told the congregation.
Driving his point home he said, “What would you do if I offered you $1,000 not to love your mother and father?” A hush fell over the
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Nazarene
Contributed by Kevin Earls on Oct 25, 2006
Illustration: I’m Raising Kids!
Harmon Killebrew, the great baseball player of yesteryear, tells in his autobiography about growing up in a home with four boys. He says that on one occasion his father was out in the front yard playing baseball with the boys and a neighbor walked by and said, "Mr.
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Fred Sigle on Nov 9, 2006
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Mark Twain advised that when a child reaches 13 years of age, a parent should place the child in a BARREL, NAIL the LID shut, and FEED the teenager through a KNOT HOLE. And when the child turns 16 years-old . . . PLUG the HOLE!
Of course, Mark Twain was also the one who
wrote, “When I was 18
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Apr 9, 2009
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TOO CLOSE TO WHERE I GOT IN
A little boy fell out of the bed in his sleep. His father picked him up and put him back in bed. He asked him, "Son, what happened?" The little boy responded, "I fell asleep too close to where I got in."
I believe that describes too many Christians today...they have
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Baptist
Contributed by Shawn Rose on May 10, 2009
Six hundred teenagers found in New England’s prisons gave these startling facts as to why they were there:
Six out of ten had fathers who drank to excess.
Many had mothers in the same condition.
Three out of four were permitted by parents to come and go as they pleased.
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Baptist
On the old Happy Days television show – which I loved to watch, Richie Cunningham had just been “grounded for life” by his father, Howard, for misbehavior. As they talked about it, Howard asked his son, “Did you know that there is a lesson in this for you?” Richie’s response was priceless: “I
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
NO FUTURE WITHOUT FORGIVENESS
Archbishop Desmond Tutu cited the crucifixion as his inspiration. Tutu, daily living in the shadow of apartheid, said that the newly empowered South African blacks readily forgave their white persecutors, because they followed "the Jewish rabbi who, when he was
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Catholic
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 22, 2010
One October morning in 2006, a woman and her six children were forced to witness an attack on their husband and father. His assailants tried to force him to deny Jesus but he refused. He continued to proclaim Christ as Lord and died praying for his family. The family is determined to follow Christ,
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Independent/Bible
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