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  • The Daughter Of A Preacher Picked Up A Paper ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 1, 2007
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    The daughter of a preacher picked up a paper packet of straight pins from her mother’s sewing basket. As it fell open dramatically, the little girl gave one astonished look, then dashed to the study, saying, “Look, daddy, look! Here’s your congregation; see? Pew after pew of them, sitting in ...read more

  • When I Was In Boy Scouts Growing Up In Tennessee, ...

    Contributed by Chris Edmondson on May 26, 2007
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    When I was in Boy Scouts growing up in Tennessee, one of the things I learned working for my First Aid Merit badge was this: “If you came upon a person involved in the scene of an accident, and they are bleeding profusely, and they are not breathing, which need to you tend to first?” You stop the ...read more

  • Is Anyone Pure?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Introduction - Is anyone pure? Charles Swindoll in "Growing Deep in the Christian Life," writes about a man who bought fried chicken dinners for himself and his date late one afternoon. The attendant at the fast food outlet, however, inadvertently gave him the proceeds from the day’s business - a ...read more

  • A Young American Engineer Was Sent To Ireland By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A young American engineer was sent to Ireland by his company to work in a new electronics plant. It was a two-year assignment that he had accepted because it would enable him to earn enough to marry his long-time girlfriend. She had a job near her home in Tennessee, and their plan was to pool their ...read more

  • One Loving Wife Found Out How Much She Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    One loving wife found out how much she was loved: I picked up the tax package sent by our CPA. For once, I’d surprise my husband Henry and get our tax information in early. As I scanned the lines, I noticed Henry had filled in some lines. To the question, "Did your marital status change ...?" he ...read more

  • How Many Of You Know The Name Paul Aurandt? He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    How many of you know the name Paul Aurandt? He also has an alias. You know him as Paul Harvey. He has published books about The Rest of the Story (Bantam) and More of Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story (Morrow). Stories built around the surprise ending format have been compiled into books that ...read more

  • J. R. Packard Wrote A Short Story Entitled, "The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    J. R. Packard wrote a short story entitled, "The Trouble Is." In that story there is one very moving scene. A riot is in progress with blacks & whites fighting each other. The mother of the little black boy who is telling this story has been hurt. Her family has just gone down & picked her up off ...read more

  • I've Never Lifted A Barn, But Herman Ostry, A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I’ve never lifted a barn, but Herman Ostry, a farmer in Bruno, Nebraska has. Shortly after buying a piece of land and a barn, a nearby creek rose, and the barn was under twenty nine inches of water. He half-jokingly said to his family, ‘I bet if we had enough people, we could pick up that barn and ...read more

  • There Was A Man In A Community That Had The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There was a man in a community that had the reputation for always being able to catch fish. Regardless of the time of the year it was, or whether anybody else was catching fish, this man was always managed to come back with a boat load of fish. His brother-in-law, who happened to be a Game Warden ...read more

  • I Want To Begin This Morning By Talking About A ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I want to begin this morning by talking about a feud that started towards the end of the civil War in West Virginia and Kentucky. It began in January of 1865 when Harmon McCoy, who had joined the Union army, was found murdered, presumably by a group of men led by William Anderson Hatfield. This ...read more

  • Several Years Ago I Heard A Father Talk About ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Several years ago I heard a father talk about something that his wife would do to encourage their son. I liked it, and I adopted it. Let me tell you about it. My son Kyle is seven, and we have a little ritual that we like to go through. It’s a moment that he and I often share. But every so often, ...read more

  • I Want To Share A Story About A Man By The Name ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I want to share a story about a man by the name of Karl Marx. (Has anyone here ever heard of him?) He is known as the father of Communism. He had one agenda and one agenda only and that was for communism to replace capitalism. Let me explain. Today, in USA, we live in a capitalistic society where ...read more

  • Katie And I Have This Friend Denny From The San ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 21, 2007
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    Katie and I have this friend Denny from the San Francisco Bay Area who started attending seminary a couple of years after we started. Now Denny is quite the handsome man, but I never realized how handsome he was until he started school with us, he was a total chick magnet. On his arrival we had ...read more

  • From His Very First Paycheck, John Rockefeller ...

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 22, 2007
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    From his very first paycheck, John Rockefeller gave ten percent of his earnings to his church. As his wealth grew, so did his giving, to educational and public health causes, and for basic science and the arts. Oddly enough, Rockefeller was probably best known in his later life for the practice of ...read more

  • Standing On A Small Platform, A Reader Calls Out ...

    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
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    Standing on a small platform, a reader calls out names, “Michael Hyde. Donald Jackson. Jose Munoz.” The names being read were those engraved on “The Wall.” No one calls it anything else. It was once highly controversial. This was not a statue, no soldier on horseback, but a black granite gash ...read more

  • I Read Recently About A Group Of Women Who Were ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Aug 26, 2007
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    I read recently about a group of women who were studying the book of Malachi. As they were studying chapter three, they came across verse three which says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." (Malachi 3:3) This verse kind of puzzled the women and they wondered what this statement ...read more

  • One Day In The 1880's A Little Lady Lived In A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Aug 31, 2007
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    One day in the 1880’s a little lady lived in a little house. There had been little rain that summer. This morning there was a little wind blowing. The little lady woke up one ordinary morning, it was still dark. So the little lady picked up her little lamp with a little oil in it. She picked up a ...read more

  • The Power Of God

    Contributed by Frederick Baker Ii on Sep 3, 2007
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    "The Power of God" A little boy was walking downtown one day and he came to a pet store. He really wanted a little puppy dog. He began saving every penny because he wanted to get a little puppy dog. He knew exactly how much money he needed. Everyday he would pass that pet shop on his way home ...read more

  • When Larry Crabbe, Christian Psychologist And ...

    Contributed by Amanda Wilson on Oct 20, 2007
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    When Larry Crabbe, Christian psychologist and author, became a father, he decided he was going to do parenting right! So Larry made sure he hugged his sons and told them he loved them. He had father-son talks, dinners and camping trips. He personally saw to it that his sons had a thorough ...read more

  • The Real Miracle

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 2, 2007
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    The Real Miracle Meaning no disrespect to the religious convictions of others, I still can’t help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the greatest miracle of all and which is recorded in history. No one denies there was such a man, that he lived and that he was put to death by ...read more