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Noel and Jill seemed to have everything. They worked in ministry with youth in Germany. Noel gave up a promising basketball career to pursue full time ministry. After five years of marriage Jill was six months pregnant. She was very excited about being a new mom. They eagerly prepared for the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2002
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A WARNING CALL
Are you hearing one? Are you sending one?
A group of 49 students and staff from Royd’s Comprehensive Middle School in England went on a week-long outdoor trip. One morning, a teacher took a small group on a river walk. She had never seen the water higher, so she
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Contributed by John Knight on May 2, 2002
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Pastor Doug Forsberg, an associate at Bethany First Church of the Nazarene recently spoke of an experience he had while pastoring a small church in Florida. It involved a member of his church, an older gentleman by the name of Benny. Now Benny was about ninety-nine to one hundred years old and he
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Holiness
Contributed by David Dewitt on Aug 25, 2002
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THE AMAZING 8-WATTS
In 1972, NASA launched the exploratory space probe Pioneer 10. According to Leon Jaroff in Time, the satellite’s primary mission was to reach Jupiter, photograph the planet and its moons, and beam data to earth about Jupiter’s magnetic field, radiation belts, and atmosphere.
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Church Of God
Contributed by Rick Davis on Jun 11, 2003
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TWENTY WAYS TO ENCOURAGE YOUR CHILDREN TO USE DRUGS AND BECOME HOODLUMS,TRAMPS AND REBELS.
1. Never eat together as a family.
2. Never have weekly, monthly, or annual family outings that they can look forward to as a family unit.
3. Talk to your children, not
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 9, 2003
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WHERE WERE YOU
"Where were you Lord
When my heart was breaking in two?"
"I was there", the Lord said,
"Holding it together for you."
"Where were you Lord
When fear showed its face to me?"
"I was there," the Lord said,
"Protecting you from its grasp and keeping you free."
"Where were you Lord
When
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Dec 23, 2003
A woman was washing dishes one night and as she looked at the plate she asked herself, “How many times have I washed this plate?” And she put the plate down, went to her room, packed a small bag, and left the house. That night she called home to check on the kids and said she loved them all but she
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Baptist
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Maya Angelou, a great contemporary American poet, writes about how she dealt with slavery and prejudice in her moving poem entitled, "Still I Rise." Her words could well have been written by Joseph, who had been made a slave in Egypt. Can we face our own difficulties with this kind of confidence
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Disciples Of Christ
Contributed by Tim Zingale on Oct 10, 2005
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"In the west during the torrential spring rains, the rivers frequently rise and flood the lowlands. There was a little girl who lived In the valley of one of these mighty rivers and one weekend "he was going with her parents to visit friends. As she was packing, she placed her dearest possession in
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Lutheran
Contributed by Myron Loss on Jun 9, 2006
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Bishop Asbury was a circuit-riding, Methodist preacher who lit gospel fires all across the American frontier, and who was no stranger to hardship and suffering.
Asbury suffered from one chronic ailment after another, so much so that one biographer calls him a "Job of old on horseback." Migraine
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Scott Epperson on Nov 22, 2006
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ILLU. beggar and his rice
A Parable of Life
Life is like another parable from another land. A blind Indian beggar sat beside a road, fingering the rice in his little bowl. Wearing only a loin cloth, he sat in poverty beside a road that stretched into nowhere both ways. The scarce travelers
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 1, 2009
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DON SUTTON'S MOTIVATION
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton hadn’t won a game in 8 weeks. The press was suggesting that he be dropped from the starting lineup. The future looked bleak, and Sutton felt terrible. Then, before a game, Dodgers manager Walter Alston tapped him on the shoulder. "I’d
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 25, 2009
Years ago I was invited out to a farm in West Wyalong, in NSW. It was night when we arrived and after eating, the farmer invited us out to the barn. He had a large torch and shone it around the floor. At first I didn’t realize what I was looking at. The floor seemed to be moving in waves. The waves
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Max Lucado explains grace this way in his book In The Grip of Grace pages xii-xiii:
Surely God is impressed with my garments, I often thought. Occasionally I strutted into his presence so he could compliment the self-tailored wear. He never spoke. His silence must mean admiration, I convinced
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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President Abraham Lincoln called for a day of fasting and prayer.
His declaration for a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer begins with this thought.
And in so much as we know that, by his divine law, nations, like individuals, are subject to the punishments and chastisements in this
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