Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
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A farmer loaned his mule to a neighbor to help with some plow work. After an hour or so, he came back for help. “That mule won’t do a thing. I can’t even get him to move over to the plow.” The farmer said, “Let’s go have a look at him.” He picked up a 2 x 4 and followed his neighbor out to the
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on May 29, 2008
"Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators Pontius
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A brief excerpt from the Biography* of D.Livingstone that immortal missionary to Africa captures the essence of his ministry…on how he had modeled it on His master.
‘They (people to whom he ministered) had decided to go to Kolobeng, too, for they felt that they could not live without their white
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Contributed by Don Jones on Jan 7, 2007
There was a young pastor fresh out of seminary. Had finally gotten called to his first church and was extremely excited. He had 3 years of fresh new ideas and he couldn’t wait to take over so he could show and tell the church what to do.
The first Sunday he stood before the church and gave
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 8, 2009
Joanie Yoder wrote, " When my husband and I first went out as missionaries, I recall being concerned about the growth of materialism in our society. It never crossed my mind that I myself could be materialistic. After all, hadn’t we gone overseas with almost nothing? Weren’t we choosing to live in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 30, 2001
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Many years ago, a professor from Harvard University was speaking to a class on Columbus Day. He said that there were three profound things about Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America:
First, when he left Spain he didn’t know where he was going.
Second, when he arrived in the New World he
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2002
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Dr. David Swift of the Smalley Relationship Center states why blended families have such a difficult time making things work.
"Most parents begin their second marriage by trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Until we realize that the two are different, we will waste time becoming angry,
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Contributed by Ron Crow on Mar 7, 2003
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A school teacher who was bypassed for a promotion went to her administrator and complained, “I have twenty years of experience, and you promoted someone who had only been teaching five years.” The administrator replied, “No, you don’t have twenty years of experience. You have one year of experience
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Baptist
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Joel Osteen from his book “Your Best Life Now” stated, “Until you learn how to enlarge your vision, seeing the future through your eyes of faith, your own wrong thinking will prevent good things from happening in your life. God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessings into old attitudes…
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Scott Jensen on Jan 2, 2009
The Oakland police force recently unveiled its first lowrider police car. The vehicle has the standard logo, lights and siren, but also includes chrome wheels, hydraulic lift, and a 500-watt sound system. The car was put on the force to help officers build better relationship with inner-city
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Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 7, 2010
On August 6, 1945 the man once described as “an outstanding Baptist layman”, President Harry Truman, stood on the deck of the battleship “Augusta”, right after the first atomic bomb was dropped, and proclaimed “this is the greatest thing in history.” Few Americans Christians challenged his claim.
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Nazarene
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 16, 2004
The Youth Leader had taken their combined group camping. It had been fun making preparation and deciding on where to go. But now the first day of camping was over and it was time to sat around the almost dead campfire with only the glow of the last dying branches they had burned. The chaperons
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Contributed by James Chandler on Apr 5, 2007
One year in youth ministry, I held an event for our youth known as the “30 Hour Famine.” We went for thirty hours without food. We only drank juice. Each young person had adults sponsoring them and the money went to needy children in third world countries.
By about the twentieth hour, I was
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
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ILL: The Heart of Worship
There’s a recent song that was written by a young man who lead the worship at church. He was an extremely talented singer, but the preacher there took him aside and told him that he could not lead the singing at church until things changed because he saw that he was more
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 3, 2010
Way back in January of 2002 we taught William Fay’s approach to sharing the gospel. It was called “Share Jesus Without Fear.” A part of those sessions dealt with handling objections.
"There are many religions in the world. How can you know the right one?"
Response: "All religions can be divided
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