Contributed by Terry Barnhill on May 11, 2010
                
                
                
                    NO LONGER ON TRIAL
In a museum art gallery of old masters, one visitor was being particularly and audibly critical of these great works of art. Finally, an elderly attendant could stand it no longer and said, "If you please, sir, the pictures are no longer on trial...but the spectators are."
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2025
                
                
                
                    A lawyer invites his cousin from the Czech Republic to come and stay with him in Canada. Soon they decide to go hiking in the woods. Suddenly, a big grizzly bear appears. The bear kills the Czech cousin and then eats him.
The lawyer runs to the nearest village and tells everybody what has
                    
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                    Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Augustine the fiery defender of the faith accepted Christ in the most unusual
way. After resisting God for a long time Augustine heard a child playing
nearby, saying, TOLLE LEGE, TOLLE LEGE, which means, Take, Read. He promptly
read a random verse from the Bible, Romans 13:13- 14, and gave his life
                    
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                    Contributed by C Jordan on Jan 27, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There was a fiery old revival preacher named Peter Cartwright who was famous for telling it like it was. He was preaching one time near Washington D.C. and the people of the church heard that Andrew Jackson was coming to visit. So they pulled Mr. Cartwright aside and said, "Listen Peter, the
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 18, 2011
                
                
                
                    SADDUCEES' TRIAL METHODS
"Critics deny the accuracy of the description John gives. They cite the Mishnah requiring that trials be held in the daytime, that several days are required to try a capital crime, and that the accused not be directly questioned, among other details. However, exceptions
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A defendant was on trial for murder. There was strong evidence indicating guilt, but there was no corpse. In the defense’s closing statement the lawyer, knowing that his client would probably be convicted, resorted to a trick: “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have a surprise for you all,” the
                    
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                    Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 30, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    On Trial for Sharing the Gospel 
17 and 18 years old, Pakistan, 1997
(p27-28)
Anila met Perveen at school.  As their friendship grew, Anila gave Perveen a Bible and taught her Christian songs.  Perveen quickly learned Christian songs and began to teach them to her younger sister when her parents
                    
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Chippie the parakeet never saw it coming. One second he was peacefully perched in his cage. The next he was sucked in, washed up, and blown over.
The problems began when Chippie's owner decided to clean Chippie's cage with a vacuum cleaner. She removed the attachment from the end of the
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 2, 2007
                
                
                
                    Poem: An Unknown author expressed this concept in a Poem called: “In the Crucible”
Out from the mine and the darkness,
Out from the damp and the mold,
Out from the fiery furnace,
Cometh each grain of gold.
Crushed into atoms and leveled
Down to the humblest dust
With never a heart to pity,
With
                    
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                    Contributed by Dave Mcfadden on Dec 8, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dr. Ian Paisley, the fiery Irish cleric and politician was reputed to have been preaching one Sunday on the End Times - and in particular on the Day of Judgment. As he reached the climax of his address he said that on the Day of Judgment "there would be wailing and gnashing of teeth." At which
                    
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                    Contributed by Eric Snyder on Oct 22, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A defendant was on trial for murder in Oklahoma. There was strong evidence indicating guilt, but there was no corpse. In the defense’s closing statement the lawyer, knowing that his client would probably be convicted, resorted to a trick. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have a surprise for you
                    
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