Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 1, 2003
B. A little boy was sitting next to an elderly Christian man beside a river. “Will you teach me to pray?” the boy asked. “Are you sure that you want to learn?” The Christian saint asked. “Yes, of course.” With that the holy man grabbed the boy’s neck and plunged his head into the water. He
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 21, 2003
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(Story told by Shari Hanson) My mother was baby-sitting my son, Dirk, at her house one day. When I stopped to pick him up, Mom told me that Dirk had followed her into the bedroom as she put some things away in the closet. “Grandma,” he asked, “what room is this?” “This is a closet, Dirk,” she
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Contributed by Erik Estep on Nov 13, 2003
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When Charles Schwab was 70 years old, he made the following statement. These words were spoken for the record in a court of law after he’d just won a nuisance suit. He said, “I’d like to say here in a court of law, and speaking as an old man, that 9/10ths of my troubles are traceable to my being
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Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Dec 27, 2003
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Near Cripple Creek, Colorado, gold and tellurium occur mixed as tellurite ore. The refining methods of the early mining camps could not separate the two elements, so the ore was thrown into a scrap heap.
One day a miner mistook a lump of ore for coal and tossed it into his stove. Later, while
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Contributed by Timothy Archer on Jan 13, 2004
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Do you remember the movie "The Lion King"? It tells the story of a young lion who is the son of the king. The lion runs away when his father is accidentally killed and the cub is made to feel responsible for that death. He takes refuge with a pair of insectivores, and we see the king of the beasts
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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There’s a story about a young child who lay in hospital dying of cancer, withering away to
nothing. Her family was devastated. Friends came, from church, from work...and tried to offer
solace. They tried but could only come up with unhelpful little sayings that didn’t begin to touch
the
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Contributed by Karl Kruse on Jul 31, 2004
On Saturday, August 14th, 35,000 pounds of food will be given away. But Elim’s involvement - your involvement - with Convoy of Hope is not simply about the food that will be taken home and eaten, because that food will all run out. Your involvement with Convoy of Hope is simply to share the love
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Lutheran
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 22, 2004
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The late Larry Burkett, a Christian financial counselor & founder of Crown Ministries, gives these statistics. 40% borrow more than they can make monthly payments on. The average American family is always only 3 weeks away from bankruptcy. According to Burkett and social security statistics, 85 out
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Christian Church
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Have you ever gone shopping across the border in Mexico? I remember one particular time. I was walking through the “tiendas” (shopping district) in Monterrey, Mexico. On every side “hawkers” were standing at the doors of the shops, trying to lure me away from a competitor and into their shop.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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Nona Freeman, the great missionary, once related this story about something that happened in Ghana:
A student from a college in Carbondale, Illinois gave another student from Ghana a tract. In Ghana when a student goes away to college everyone in their tribe contributes something but when they
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Pentecostal
Contributed by David Elvery on Nov 14, 2004
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A hospital administrator was once startled to see a patient fleeing down the hall out of the operating room, his loose hospital gown flapping the breeze behind him. He stopped the fleeing patient and said, "Do you mind telling me why you ran away from the operating room?" The patient looked at him
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Baptist
Contributed by Greg Buchner on Mar 28, 2005
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Lee Strobel put it like this…
“If we were holding a trial to determine the facts
concerning the resurrection, and if we were to call to the witness stand every witness who personally encountered the resurrected Jesus and we cross-examined them for only 15 minutes, and if we went around the clock
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 13, 2005
On June 4, 1783 at the market square of a French village of Annonay, not far from Paris, a smoky bonfire on a raised platform was fed by wet straw and old wool rags. Tethered above, straining its lines, was a huge taffeta bag 33 feet in diameter. In the presence of “a respectable assembly and a
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Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Dec 27, 2005
‘Every year at Christmas, James Baxter watches people rip apart his company’s product and throw it away. All the hours of creative design and careful manufacturing are gone in a flash. And he has no regrets. As president of the nation’s largest maker of Christmas gift-wrap, Mr Baxter says, “What
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Charismatic
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 19, 2006
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"There is also a mimetic aspect to the sufferings of Christ. Peter tells us that Christ in His passion left us an example to follow in His steps (I Pet.2:21).
The Bible makes it clear, however, that pain and suffering are not to be sought after for their own sake. That would indicate a
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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Generation Y wants to be engaged, but it does not give marketers much time to do so. “So many are multi-tasking that the concept of time loses meaning with Gen-Y,” says Simmons Research Co-CEO Bill Engel.” They seem to squeeze 31 hours of time into one day. Their whole life is built on a multitude
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 23, 2006
How would it have felt to grow up in slavery, to give birth to children who were slaves, and then to die in slavery? Wouldn’t you wonder, "Where is God in all this? If we are God’s people, why isn’t he doing something?" But God thinks in the long term --decades, centuries, and even millennia.
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 20, 2006
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"The religious dead play at a façade of piety while trusting that the big check they dropped in the plate today will cover for their indulgence in the lusts of the flesh yesterday.
They take a week or two to travel to a third world country and pass out rice and Bibles and that washes away any
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Orthodox
There was a time when I had severely overdone the Teddy Roosevelt up San Juan concept – Charge! Our credit cards suffered a meltdown! We were so far in debt even Jerry Falwell stopped sending requests for money. It was our fault; but we were headed for bankruptcy. We walked around like the
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United Methodist
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