Contributed by Jim Kane on Dec 14, 2004
“You were made for a mission. God is at work in the world and he wants you to join him. This assignment is called your mission…is both shared and specific. One part of it is a responsibility you share with every other Christian, and the other
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Church Of God
Contributed by John Stevenson on Dec 26, 2004
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I love the story of the Prodigal Son. You know the story. He went from the love of a father to the stench of a pigsty. An inheritance squandered. A life wasted. Forlorn and dejected. And then he resolved to return home. We read about the speech he had prepared. He would recount his own
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 4, 2005
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For 30 years, Randy Murphy drove without a traffic incident, without being stopped by the police, and without a driver’s license. Then, the 46 year old Knoxville, Tennessee native’s luck ran out. On his way home from work as a dishwasher, he increased the volume on his radio. Turning the corner
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Jan 16, 2005
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During the time I was a police officer there was a dispatcher who was no more than a co-worker and casual friend to me. Near Christmas time one year, I walked into the dispatch center and she lifted a package from the table next to her and gave it to me. It was a Christmas gift, and it was
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Orthodox
Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Jan 16, 2005
I had something to look forward to
The story is told of a muti-millionaire businessman who greatly changed the lives of a sixth-grade class in a poor downtrodden housing area. This was an area where most of the students would not finish formal schooling.
He had been asked to speak to a class
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Charismatic
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One Sunday, a monk was invited to speak about the ‘love of God.’ He waited until it is dark and proceeded in the altar with a lighted candle. He first illumined the crown of thorns then the two hands that are nailed after that he continued to light the spear wound in the side and lastly he put the
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Baptist
Contributed by Don Haselhuhn on Mar 20, 2001
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What makes a hero? Webster’s defines a hero as a person “of distinguished courage, moral or physical; chief character in a play, novel, poem, etc.” One of my wife and my favorite movies is “The Princess Bride.” One character of the movie, Inigo Montoya, fits the definition of hero found in the
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Lutheran
Contributed by Alan Perkins on Apr 1, 2001
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On April, 1996 there was an auction of Kennedy memorabilia (the "ultimate garage sale"), which grossed $34.5 million dollars. JFK’s rocking chair sold for $442,500. On of Jackie’s fake pearl necklaces sold for $211,500. A set of golf clubs (just the woods): $772,500. Thirteen pairs of salt and
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Baptist
Contributed by Evie Megginson on Apr 5, 2001
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There was a law in Tokyo around the year 1900 that no foreigner could take up residence there unless he had a "substitute." There were natives who hired themselves out for this purpose. If the foreigner broke any law, the substitute suffered the penalty for it, even if the penalty was death.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2001
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Eph.2:4,5.
A young lady who occasionally walked through the park after work, stopped to have her picture taken by a photographer on this particular day. She was very excited about her picture being taken. As she walked out of the park, she looked at the polaroid picture in total amazement. She
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Contributed by John Gullick on Dec 2, 2000
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Brother Andrew tells of being in hospital full of resentment and hatred during the Indonesian war in 1946. Whilst in hospital a bible had been delivered to him.
One day - he writes - I asked the nun who came to bathe me how it was that she and the other sisters were always so cheerful.
"Why,
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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A cartoon has been found on a wall in the ruins of ancient Rome showing how crazy the Christian message seemed to the people of that time. It’s a caricature of Jesus’ crucifixion, showing a man’s body hanging on a cross - but the body has the head of a donkey. There’s also a figure of a young man
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Baptist
Contributed by Tony Miano on Jan 20, 2001
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“In January, 1995, according to an article written by Gary Thomas, J. Robert Ashcroft had fewer than forty-eight hours to live, but he was holding on to life, hoping to see his son, John Ashcroft, sworn into the U.S. Senate the following day. [John Ashcroft, as we all know by now, is in the
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