Contributed by Richard Burkey on Jun 7, 2005
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J. I. Packer wrote, “The church is not to be like a bus, where passengers sit quietly and let someone else do the driving, but
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Lutheran
Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Jun 20, 2005
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A wealthy man was taking a cruise when suddenly the announcement came that the ship was sinking. The man took his sack of gold coins around his waist and jumped overboard trying to swim to safety. Unfortunately, the weight of the coins
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 29, 2005
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Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. I once read a news story about a lawsuit in Tennessee. It seems that an evangelist was being sued for $1 million by a woman who claimed the evangelist-healer tried to punch a demon out of her stomach. The punch knocked the lady over onto another woman whose
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Baptist
Contributed by David Thompson on Jul 30, 2005
Those of you who have sat close to me know that I can’t carry a tune, my tones are off. It makes my mind wander and probably yours too, if you sit very close to me.
I have to remind myself that it’s not the sound that comes from my lips, it’s
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2005
Do you know that at one point ‘pew rental’ was a common custom in the church? It was one of the ways, if not the chief way, to raise money. It was like paying admission.
I did a short Internet search and found several articles on the subject including one about church in Australia that mentioned
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Church Of God
Contributed by Paul Humphrey on Jan 3, 2006
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A preacher once told of his church taking out the towel dispensers from their bathrooms and installing electric dryers in their place. He said that someone had taped a note on one of the blow dryers which said, “Please
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United Methodist
Contributed by Daniel Harman on Aug 28, 2006
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One day a man holidaying in the Bahamas noticed a big crowd gathered at the end of the pier. As he got closer he observed someone preparing for a solo journey around the world in a tiny homemade boat. Without exception everybody was telling him all the things that could go wrong. Suddenly the man
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Daniel Harman on Aug 28, 2006
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FROM BEGGER TO BUISINESS MAN!
A banker always tossed a coin in the cup of a legless beggar who sat on the street outside the bank. But unlike most people, the banker would always insist on getting one of the pencils the man had beside him. “You are a merchant,” the banker would say, “and I always
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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One morning I opened the door to get the newspaper and was surprised to see a strange little dog with our paper in his mouth. Delighted with this unexpected "delivery service," I fed him some treats. The following morning I was horrified to see the same dog sitting in front of our door, wagging his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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In some respects the church today is like a football game. Bud Wilkinson, football coach of the Oklahoma Sooners before he joined the President’s Physical Fitness Program and later became a commentator for ABC, was asked, “What contribution does professional sports make to the physical fitness of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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There was a shipwreck at night, once, caused by a mighty storm. A boy on the ship was taken away by the waves. He eventually came to rest on a rock. He stayed on the rock all night, shivering in the cold storm. A rescue crew found him the next morning. They asked him, “Weren’t you scared? Didn’t
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2007
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
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Baptist
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