Contributed by Jim Kane on Nov 25, 2002
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It’s hunting season and two friends were out hunting. One was always bragging about what a good shot he was. About that time a duck flew over. He took aim and fired . . . . the duck flew on unscathed.
He paused a minute and
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 18, 2007
D. L. Moody preached one Sunday night in Chicago. He asked the congregation to think about the message a week and come back. That night Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lantern and the great Chicago fire ensued. Hundreds of people
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Pentecostal
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Scientists also tell us that light will not reduce – You cannot dismantle the parts of light and have light. It will not work if you try to reduce it or dismantle any of lights parts it will not work.
Light is non reduce-able but you can use light as a source of energy because you can compress a
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 11, 2011
SMOKE ALARMS
This is one of my smoke alarms. (HIT BUZZER)
Annoying, isn’t it?
Now a smoke alarm is supposed to go off if the house is on fire. But mine goes off more often than that. Generally my smoke alarm goes off when I’m cooking (yes I’ve burnt my food). And when the smoke from burnt
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Thomas Edison invented the microphone, the phonograph, the incandescent light, the storage battery, talking movies, and more than a thousand other things.
In December 1914 he had worked for ten years on a storage battery. This had greatly strained his finances. This particular evening,
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We’re going to study a book of the Bible that is often called the LETTER OF JOY. Paul uses the word JOY 20 times in the short little book of Philippians.
What makes that really impressive is that Paul wrote the letter from a prison cell. He was not only in prison; he was literally chained to a
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Sep 27, 2006
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Some may think that putting boundaries on sex (something we were created to do) is harmful, but let me assert that boundaries actually prevent harm.
Next month, we are going to have a church-wide bon-fire. But what if I told you that once everyone is seated and chatting, we will remove all the
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Dwight L. Moody talked about the greatest regret of his life. 22 years after the event in 1871, he recounted what had happened.
"I was preaching on the life of Christ. I had spent 4 Sunday nights on the subject and had followed Christ from the manger along through his life to his arrest and
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Ken Pell on Feb 12, 2012
STAYING THE COURSE
The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at
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Nazarene
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 4, 2001
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Abe Lemmons was head basketball coach at the University of Texas for years. Asked if he was bitter at Texas Athletic Director Deloss Dodds who fired him as the Longhorn’s basketball coach, he replied, "Not at all, but I plan to buy
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2003
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ONE ACT OF BRAVERY
A firefighter performs one act of bravery in his career, and that’s when he takes the oath of office, after that, everything else is in the line of duty.
SOURCE: Special Operation’s Chief John Moran,
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Notice what captures your imagination. What is that you dwell on when you’re alone? The movie In the Line of Fire, Clint Eastwood is asked “what do you see in the dark when the demons come.” What is it that draws our attention to itself? It may be our families, work
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Guy Glass on Nov 2, 2009
Fresh out of gift ideas, a man buys his mother-in-law a large plot in an expensive cemetery. On her next birthday, he buys her nothing, so she lets him have it.
"What are you complaining about?" he
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Baptist
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jul 18, 2002
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TRANSFORMATION
The motor home has allowed us to put all the conveniences of home on wheels. A camper no longer needs to contend with sleeping in a sleeping bag, cooking over a fire, or hauling water from a stream. Now he can park a fully equipped home on a cement slab in the midst of a few pine
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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FINDING REAL POWER
Someone has wisely said what it takes to find freedom in the power of the Holy Spirit.
"It costs much to obtain the power of the Spirit. It costs self-surrender and humiliation and the yielding up of the most precious things to God. It costs the perseverance of long waiting
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United Methodist