I remember something that happened just after I moved to Texas from New Mexico in 1974. I was driving down a street in Alvin and was pulled over by a city policeman. He asked me if I was aware that I was driving over the speed limit in a school zone. Having just moved to Texas, I didn’t know
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 12, 2008
Dr. Clarence Macartney illustrates this point by this story
Dr. Macartney claims he had a vision were he
Saw the King seated upon His throne
On either side of the throne, I saw the great angels
Uriel, Raphael, Michael, Gabriel
Before the throne stood another angel
The angel of the Book
And by his
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 30, 2023
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‘Twas the night before Jesus came and all through the house
Not a creature was praying, not one in the house.
Their Bibles were lain on the shelf without care
In hopes that Jesus would not come there.
The children were dressing to crawl into bed,
Not once ever kneeling or bowing a head.
And Mom in
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I am…
BLESSED when I come in and BLESSED when I go out (Deut 28:6)
SAFE wherever I go (Psa 91:11)
REDEEMED from the hand of the enemy (Psa 107:2)
The SALT of the earth (Matt 5:13)
The LIGHT of the world (Matt 5:14)
VALUABLE! (Matt 10:31)
Exercising my AUTHORITY over the enemy (Luke 10:19)
VALUABLE
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 9, 2003
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WHERE WERE YOU
"Where were you Lord
When my heart was breaking in two?"
"I was there", the Lord said,
"Holding it together for you."
"Where were you Lord
When fear showed its face to me?"
"I was there," the Lord said,
"Protecting you from its grasp and keeping you free."
"Where were you Lord
When
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 6, 2005
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Clark Cothern, Decision, tells of a personal experience he had had.
“I once invited a friend, Gavin, to help my pastor and me guide 30 lively teens through an all-night "lock-in" at church. Early in the evening Gavin challenged me to a game of table tennis in the fellowship hall. Our game quickly
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Salvation Army
in 1902, and eventually received the title “Poet Laureate of Michigan.” His poem “Sermons We See,” drives home the urgency of being a good, Christlike role model for others to follow:
I’d rather see a sermon
than hear one any day;
I’d rather one should walk with me
than merely tell the way.
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Methodist
Contributed by Michael Walther on May 27, 2011
"CAN'T NEVER DID NOTHING."
When I was in high school, I worked as a janitor. I was the summer help, and I was teamed up with the regular janitor named Jim. Jim was a rough character. When I first met him he reminded me of Charles Manson. He was a former Marine who had been through some very
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Lutheran
Contributed by Greg Nance on Apr 13, 2012
UNDER THE INFLUENCE
David Kupelian's book The Marketing of Evil, published in 2005, is an eye-opening study of what we face today. I wish every parent would read it.
Does anyone here remember what happened to Robert Bauman in 1980? He was elected in 1973 as representative of the First
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Apr 17, 2012
THE VILLAGE OF THE BOOK
It was early in 1945. As United States forces pushed deep into Okinawa they came across a village unlike any they had ever seen. Here at Shimabuku they were met and welcomed by two old men who invited the troops in as "fellow Christians."
Correspondent Clarence W. Hall
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Independent/Bible
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During Super Bowl XXXVII, FedEx ran a commercial that spoofed the movie Castaway, in which Tom Hanks played a FedEx worker, whose company plane went down, stranding him on a desert island for years.
Looking like Tom Hanks in the movie, the FedEx employee in the commercial goes up to the door of a
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In 1926, a wealthy Toronto lawyer named Charles Vance Millar died, leaving behind him a will that amused and electrified the citizens of his Canadian province. Millar, a bachelor with a wicked sense of humour, stated clearly that he intended his last will and testament to be an “uncommon and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 26, 2009
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Laws of Stewardship, Sowing and Reaping
A few of the Laws of Stewardship and of Sowing and Reaping:
THE LAW OF RIGHTFUL OWNERSHIP – Nothing truly belongs to us; everything actually belongs to God.
THE LAW OF PURPOSEFUL POSSESSION – Wise stewards are guided by lordship, not “hoardship.”
THE LAW
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