Contributed by Charles Salmon on Sep 7, 2003
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The Fiancee: A young woman brought her fiancee home to meet her parents. After dinner, her mother told her father to find out about the young man. The father invited the fiancee to his study for a talk.
"So what are your plans?" the father asked the young man.
"I am a biblical scholar," he
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 22, 2003
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A BETTER VOW
Eric Snyder, Minister of the Farwell Church of Christ tells this story:
I recently did a wedding. During the wedding rehearsal, the groom pulled me aside and made me an offer.
He said "Look, I’ll give you $100 if you’ll change the wedding vows. When you get to me and the part
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 30, 2003
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WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
Victor, a man in Jeanette Hoessel’s English-as-a-second language course, came from El Salvador. He asked her one day, "What does C-section mean?" Since Jeanette’s three children had been delivered by Caesarian section, she felt confident with her explanation, but Victor’s face
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Jan 7, 2004
✎ Let’s imagine today is payday only instead of a check we are all given cash. What do you notice about the money we have all worked so hard for? It’s not enough right? No, M is not for “more” it’s for “MERCY,” so in your minds eye take a close look at your money, and what do you see?
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Assembly Of God
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I imagine many of you have heard the old joke — or at least some version of it — about the man who’s walking along the street one night and comes across one of the neighborhood children inching along on his hands and knees down on the sidewalk beneath a streetlight. The man asks the boy, “What’s
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Lutheran
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In CONSPIRACY OF KINDNESS, Steve Sjogren (pronounced “SHOW-GREN”) tells the true story of Joe Delaney and his eight-year-old son, Jared, who were playing catch in their backyard.
“Jared asked, ‘Dad, is there a God?’
“Joe replied that he went to church only a few times when he was a kid; he really
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Contributed by Charles Salmon on Aug 30, 2004
"I Don’t Know What I May Do Tomorrow"
Many times Christians say, "Of course I know I’m saved now, Paster, but I don’t know what I may do tomorrow.
One lady I knew pretty well said this to me. I responded with, "That’s strange, I know what you will do tomorrow." She looked incredulous and I went
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2005
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Out of parental concern and a desire to teach our young son responsibility, we require him to phone home when he arrives at his friend?s house a few blocks away. He began to forget, however, as he grew more confident in his ability to get there without disaster befalling him. The first time he
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Contributed by William Huegel on Dec 30, 2005
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A guy by the name of Herb Forst in Cross River, NY, offered some suggestions to the Reader’s Digest, p. 69 that they thought was so good they printed it. It’s entitled:
“What not to Buy Your Wife”
Although the only person a man usually shops for is his wife, the whole experience is a stressful
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Baptist
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A Modern day example of this is found In the movie Groundhog’s day. Bill Murray finds that he is stuck repeating the same day over and over again. At first, he is very frustrated and thinks he is going to go insane. No matter what he does he cannot affect or change the events of the day. Then
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Lutheran
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 5, 2006
Recently, while the residents of Charlotte, N.C., were trying to decide whether to name a new park after their most famous son, Billy Graham, the city’s newspaper ran some of the mail they have received on the subject. Most writers felt this is a fitting tribute to the world-famous evangelist; some
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Don Jones on Jan 11, 2007
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Rev. David E. Cox passed along this observation to his congregation one day. My youngest son, Brandon, is quite the newcomer as an author. No, he does not have the capabilities of writing splendid poetry like Maya Angelou nor leaves his readers in suspense like Stephen L. Carter, but with every
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Ferrante on Jan 12, 2007
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Stanley Jones writes about a crucial moment in his life when he found himself on his way to what could have been a spiritual disaster:
For months after my conversion, I was running under cloudless skies. And then suddenly I tripped, almost fell, pulled back this side of the sin, but was shaken
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Mark Ferrante on Jan 20, 2007
Wonderful Burden
One morning R. C. Chapman, a devout Christian, was asked how he was feeling. "I’m burdened this morning!" was his reply. But his happy countenance contradicted his words. So the questioner exclaimed in surprise, "Are you really burdened, Mr. Chapman?" "Yes, but it’s a wonderful
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Lynn Malone on Mar 11, 2007
Perhaps you’ve seen the commercial on television advertising one of those lending companies. This nice man with a painted on smile stands surrounded by this nice all-American family, and he says, “I’ve got a beautiful family.” The next scene shows a picture of a big house and the same man says,
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Methodist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
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As a part of an assignment for a doctoral thesis, a college student spent a year with a group of Navajo Indians on a reservation in the Southwest.
As he did his research he lived with one family, sleeping in their hut, eating their food, working with them and generally living the life of a 20th
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Pentecostal
About 20 years back, I had a dream of going to India as a missionary. I’d visited there several times and felt a calling to work with the South India Church of Christ Mission. I was especially close to a young preacher named Ragu. But that vision died when Susan and I got our request for Visa’s
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Keith Wessel on Apr 14, 2001
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Easter is so much more than learning how to face death without fear, with courage and dignity. After all, even philosophers, poets, and scientists can do that. I remember the astronomer Carl Sagan mention in an interview that he was looking forward to death as “the last great adventure.” Walt
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