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Rach and I have a friend who is a source of grief for us. It is not that he has done anything to us – he is quite dear to us actually. Rather it is what he has done to himself, what he has chosen to believe. About ten years ago, this friend began absenting himself from church. He was getting
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Chip Monck on Mar 9, 2005
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Two rednecks, Billy Joe and his friend Bubba are out in the woods hunting when Billy Joe suddenly grabs his chest, keels over and falls to the ground.
Billy Joe doesn’t seem to be breathing, his tongue is hanging out and his eyes are rolled back in his head.
Bubba frantically whips out his cell
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Jun 30, 2005
Kalman and Sue Csia were friends of mine who during World War II were fleeing from the Germans. It seems the Germans were rounding up protestant pastors because of the Barmen Declaration. They literally fled for their lives. I asked them what they had learned from this experience. They
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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A friend of mine visited Portugal some years ago on an evangelistic tour. He was delighted to find many believers who were “spiritual giants,” among them a missionary from Great Britain named Eric Barker. He had spent over 50 years in Portugal preaching the gospel, often under adverse conditions.
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Contributed by Dale Bird on Jan 7, 2006
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IF YOUR FRIEND JUMPED OFF A CLIFT WOULD YOU?
450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths
By The Associated Press
posted: 08 July 2005
11:22 am ET
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) _ First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Feb 3, 2006
My colleague and friend, Rev David Snuggs, spent three weeks in Israel recently and he was deeply affected by hearing young Hebrew voices calling out, “abba!” One young lad was really excited about showing something to his dad: “abba, abba!” At the beach a boy was struggling in the water and he
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2006
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Em Griffin writes, in Making Friends, about three kinds of London maps: The street map, the map depicting throughways, and the underground map of the subway. "Each map is accurate and correct," he writes, "but each map does not give the complete picture. To see the whole, the three maps must be
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Contributed by Kent Kessler on Dec 27, 2006
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A man came to his old friend, a music teacher, and asked, “What’s the good news today?” The old man was silent as he stood up, walked across the room, picked up a hammer and struck a tuning fork. As the note sounded out through the room, he said, “That is A. It is A today; it was A five thousand
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Methodist
Contributed by John Tung on Jan 24, 2007
If you have a friend who is willing to lay down his life for you, that is great. That is amazing. That is truly a very special friendship. We might even call them heroes. Like the man in NYC who jumped down into the subway tracks and covered up a man who was having seizures and had accidentally
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Feb 10, 2007
I friend of mine from Seminary, This is how he became a Christian. For years as a businessman, he met with this client, These two upright, and generous men. They had such a wonderful spirit about them. They were always throwing out unbelievably great quotes. One day, my friend said, “You guys, I
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
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DR. HENRY BRANDT told of going to visit a friend whose wife had died. While there he shared these wonderful words of the apostle Paul from II Cor. 1:3-4, 8-11a: "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail
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