Contributed by Karl Ingersoll on Mar 8, 2003
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The church that is alive and well is a growing one. Where there is no growth there is a problem.
Some churches have parking problems, some other churches don’t.
Some churches have kids running around making a lot of noise some other churches tend to be very quiet.
Some churches usually have
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Contributed by Donny Granberry on Jun 21, 2008
GROW OUT OF YOUR SHELL
From time to time lobsters have to leave their shell in order to grow. They need their shell to protect them, yet if they do not abandon it the old shell would become their prison – and finally their casket.
We are not much different from lobsters. To change and grow we
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Contributed by Shawn Kelly on Nov 2, 2008
"Giddy-Up."
There was a group of students in Texas taking a class on the psychology of emotions. The professor wanted to know what the opposite of happy was. One student raised their and said, "Sad."
Then the professor asked, "What's the opposite of depression?" "Elation,” another student
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 2, 2009
LOOK UP
I love those scenes in action films, comics, or cartoons where you have one set of bad guys pursuing the hero from one end of a tunnel or corridor and another set of bad guys is converging from the other side. You know the hero is in between them, but when the groups of pursuers meet in
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 24, 2010
CATCHING UP
A woman who had recently moved into a small village in Wiltshire, was in the backyard hanging out the washing on the line when an old, tired-looking dog wandered into the yard. She could tell from his collar and well-fed belly that he had a home.
As she walked into the house, the dog
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Contributed by David Dunn on Oct 25, 2025
During the days when Mohammed Ali was a great boxer, he would go around in his arrogance and say that, "He was the greatest." Humility was never his strong suit.
One day, back in his prime, he was on an airplane and the plane was ready to take off and the flight attendant had repeatedly
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2007
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Hispanics remain the USA’s fastest-growing minority group, but most of the population increase comes from births here rather than immigration, according to the Census Bureau. 60% of the 1.3 million new Hispanics in ‘05 are U.S. citizens by birth. In effect, even if immigration came to a standstill,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Religious Tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors of the tourism market, says Globus, an international tour company that offers 20 faith-based itineraries, up from 8 in ‘04. It has become a $1 billion industry. Driving forces are: 8 million more people identified as Christians and 45% more
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Contributed by David Moore on Feb 18, 2010
DON'T FORGET ABOUT GROWING
In N. Ireland, during the troubles there, some of those caught up in paramilitary violence would be converted, and no sooner were they saved than they were paraded from church to church sharing their testimony as an ex-paramilitary. Such events often drew large crowds,
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