Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
IT'S OK TO CLAP
In 1989, I was an intern pastor at Boston Avenue UMC, a 8,300 member church in downtown Tulsa, OK. Let me give you an image of our worship service. We wore full robes and vestments, we processed with a choir of more than 60 people with the the cross leading the way. We sang hymns
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Methodist
Contributed by John Putty on Mar 19, 2011
Charles Finney, Abel Clary. Second Great Awakening.
It had been said about Rev. Charles Finney that his sermons were chain lightning, flashing conviction into the hearts of the stoutest skeptics. Simple as a child in his utterances, he sometimes startled his hearers by his unique prayers." He
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Mar 20, 2011
THE LION AND THE BOOK
Two explorers were on a jungle safari when suddenly a ferocious lion jumped in front of them.
"Keep calm," the first explorer whispered. "Remember what we read in that book on wild animals? If you stand perfectly still and look the lion in the eye, he will turn and
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Brethren
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Mar 21, 2011
THE BEST DEFINITION OF A FRIEND
A British publication once offered a prize for the best definition of a friend. Among the thousands of answers received were the following:
"One who multiplies joys, divides grief, and whose honesty is inviolable."
"One who understands our silence."
"A volume
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Mar 27, 2011
BAPTIZE THE WALLET, TOO
A man who was about to be baptized by immersion was on his way into the pool when he realized that in his back pocket was his wallet. He stopped and was about to remove it when the preacher said, "Stop! Either I baptize you wallet and all or not at all!"
Now the preacher
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Brethren
Walter C. Jackson, a professor at Campbellsville University says, "Servant leadership, as portrayed in the gospels, is difficult to maintain in a climate where increasingly larger
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Salvation Army
David Garland says in the NIV Application Commentary, "One need not look far to see preachers who do not preach to reach the people but preach to reach the top, to become ecclesiastical superstars. They see discipleship to Jesus in terms of rank and privilege. They assume
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Apr 5, 2011
HUCK FINN ON PRAYER
There’s an incident in Huckleberry Finn where Mark Twain has Huck make a very human observation. "Miss Watson took me into a closet and prayed, but nothing came of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for, I would get. But it weren't so. I tried it. Once I
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Contributed by John Putty on Apr 5, 2011
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HIGHER GROUND
The old hymn, “Higher Ground” is a spiritual declaration of one determined man Johnson Oatman, Jr. put to music! While some refuse to believe that our personal faith plays any real role in our spiritual growth and in experiencing Christian victory, in all my 20 years of preaching
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by John Putty on Apr 5, 2011
THE MOTHER OF THE HOLINESS MOVEMENT
From the book, "The Cure of All Ills", Revivalist record the impact of the prayer life of Phobe Palmer in the holiness movement.
In this spiral of spiritual, social, moral and political degeneracy of the decade preceding 1857, God looked for a man, but he found
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 17, 2011
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CONFUSED
A university student was seen with a large "K" printed on his T-shirt. When someone asked him what the "K" stood for, he said, "Confused."
"But," the questioner replied, "you don't spell 'confused'
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Brethren
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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR
There was this man and a woman who got married. But they shared the same birthday and they decided to get married on the same day. So they got married, had a few kids, and lived the lives they dreamed.
But 20 years passed. They were celebrating their 40th anniversary
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