Contributed by Alan Perkins on Apr 22, 2001
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Timothy McVeigh. Six years ago, on April 19, 1995, at 9:01 a.m., Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb which destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. In doing so, he ended the lives of 168 people, nineteen of them children, and became the worst mass murderer in American history.
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 3, 2001
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[How God’s Children Change, Citation: Craig Barnes, author and pastor of National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C.; from sermon "The Blessed Trinity" (5-30-99)]
When I was a child, my minister father brought home a 12-year-old boy named Roger, whose parents had died from a drug overdose.
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Contributed by Alan Perkins on May 6, 2001
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There’s a story about W.C. Fields, a famously irreligious man, who near the end of his life was visited by the actor Thomas Mitchell, who found him sitting up in bed reading the Bible. When his amazed friend asked what he was doing, he replied, "looking for loopholes".
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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People talk about being saved by faith plus good works. This is not true. Good works are the necessary consequence of our salvation. They are not necessary to be saved; they are the necessary
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Contributed by Paul Carlson on Jan 25, 2010
While we were in Jerusalem we visited a Jewish shop “Treasures of the Temple” which was a sort of museum. These Jews are currently recreating all the temple items in preparation of rebuilding the temple to worship in O.T. style. Photos 796-798
We stopped by the Western Wall and there were dozens
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Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 7, 2025
A pastor was teaching the Ten Commandments to a group of children.
When he came to “Thou shalt not steal,” he leaned forward and said, “Now, children, what would the cookie jar say to you if it could talk?”
A little girl lifted her hand and said, “It would say, ‘Suffer the little children to come
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Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 25, 2025
Martin Luther wrote about seeing two mountain goats meeting on a mountain trial that was narrow enough for only one to travel on.
When they met up, Luther thought for sure they would butt heads and the strongest would survive. One would die and one would be injured.
Instead, when the mountain
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Contributed by Dan Erickson on Nov 21, 2000
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Max Lucado says that one of the most difficult truths he has had to come to grips with is that God’s grace is big enough to extend to someone like Jeffery Dahmer. If you recall, Dahmer was the young murderer in Milwaukee a few years ago who cut up the bodies of his victims. While in prison, Dahmer
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Contributed by Michael Milton on Jul 26, 2002
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Shortly before I left Savannah, the headlines in the Savannah News were all about Baby Grace. Baby Grace was a newborn girl discovered in a dumpster by a garbage worker. Amidst the refuse of a ghetto area of Savannah, lying in pornography, in the green broken glass of discarded cheap wine bottles,
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