Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 20, 2007
ILLUSTRATION… Today in the Word, March 10, 1993.
Deeply immersed in meditation during a church service, Italian poet Dante Alighieri failed to kneel at the appropriate moment. His enemies hurried to the bishop and demanded that Dante be punished for his sacrilege. Dante defended himself by saying,
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Contributed by Darren Rogers on Sep 6, 2007
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The Wyoming government had a problem with timber wolves. They offered $5,000 bounty on each wolf captured alive. That turned two men, Sam and Jed, into bounty hunters! Day and night they scoured the mountains looking for wolves. Exhausted one night they fell asleep dreaming about the fortune they
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Clarke on Sep 12, 2007
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Bro. Lawrence lived almost 500 yrs ago and worked as a mere dish washer in a monastery for 30 yrs. He never married; he never sought nor received a promotion. Question: Does that sound like a leader? Maybe not in the eyes of the world but he was a leader in his intimacy w/ the Savior. His
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by James Owens on Feb 6, 2008
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a) AGENT ORANGE IN THE VIETNAM WAR
It would affect your eyes and cause blindness to occur.
Breathing would become increasing difficult and choking would occur.
It would affect the nervous system – unable to control bodily functions.
b) SATAN’S ATTACK ON GOD’S PEOPLE IN THESE LAST
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Church Of God
"There are a large number of men and women in the church whose businesses are very successful; however, many give to the kingdom a fraction of what they've earned. Even though they are hugely successful in society's eyes, what will be the Master's view of what they've held on to? Even in they made
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Job sat on his dunghill and reflected that he was not alone in his pain. Everyone awakes to the same reality–hard work or hard study and every day’s the same thing, and nothing you do ever seems to make a difference. The line is Bill Murray’s from Groundhog Day, but, especially in a tough
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Catholic
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 30, 2025
[094]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FORGETTING THE PAST, LOOK AHEAD
Someone posted to a Christian forum I was on, a four line stanza once, that in effect said that you can not go back and fix the past, i.e. to go back and alter the beginning but you can start from here and make a brand new end. I
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Contributed by Tom Lovorn on Jun 9, 2003
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A preacher was requested by family members to visit a man in a mental institution who thought he was Jesus. When the preacher introduced himself, the man replied, "Bless you, my son." The preacher asked if he were Jesus and he replied that he was. So, the preacher excused himself and said he
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Baptist
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There is a story told that is totally fictitious, but the point is true. The story is that when Jesus went back up into Heaven, the angel Gabriel had a conversation with Jesus. This is just an illustration. He asked Jesus, “What happened while you down on earth? Did they make you king?” Jesus
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Kent Mishleau on Apr 5, 2010
I would like to share a short story with you about a young man who was to write a PhD dissertation about the Navajo Indians. He was from Indiana and had never met or seen one of these and so knew little to nothing about them. So it was decided that he would go to live with a family of the Navajo on
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 13, 2023
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There is an ancient Christian fable ... that tells of Jesus encounter ...as he reentered ...Heaven.
As the angels spoke with him, ...Gabriel, noticed ...that Jesus bore the marks of the cross, ...and being inquisitive, ...said to Jesus:
Master, ...you must have suffered terribly for those people
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2002
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The Old Testament contains over three hundred prophetic passages that refer to the first coming of Jesus the Messiah. Forty-eight of these prophecies refer specifically to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. All of them published during and eleven-hundred year period that ended four
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