Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Dec 2, 2007
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Rev Sandy Millar, the former Rector of Holy Trinity, Brompton, London, tells of how he visited a young woman in Holloway Prison. There was only one card pinned up in her cell. He noticed the words: ‘Happy Birthday’ was the printed message and underneath was written, ‘We wish things could have
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 16, 2008
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Love of the Adopted
We capture a picture of our relationship with God in Chrissy's story about her adoptive parents. "My adopted father still, to this day, recalls the overwhelming emotion he had the moment he held me in his arms and saw my tiny, pink face. They gave me the best life any child
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Mary Lewis on Sep 19, 2001
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The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. He eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jun 19, 2001
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Illus.: “The Human Fly” (pp.18,19, A Treasury of Inspirational Illustrations, Earl C. Willer)
Some years ago, a so-called “human fly” went to Los Angeles. It was announced that on a certain day he would climb up the face of one of the large department store buildings. Thousands gathered to
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 2, 2005
A bird had no interest in learning the song its master wanted to teach it while its cage was full of light. Its master covered the cage to darken it. He then whistled the same song over and over until the bird learned it by heart. When it could repeat it note for note, the owner uncovered the cage
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present
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Contributed by Mike Leiter on Jan 15, 2003
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On New Year’s Day, 1929, Georgia Tech played UCLA in the Rose Bowl. In that game a young man named Roy Riegels recovered a fumble for UCLA. Picking up the loose ball, he lost his direction and ran sixty-five yards toward the wrong goal line. One of his teammates, Beeny Lom, ran him down and
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Vineyard
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 18, 2010
Haddon Robinson told a story of a mother and her son. The father died when the boy was young. This was back before television, when folks spent evenings listening to the radio or reading to one another. They both enjoyed listening to good music. In his early twenties, he met a young woman at the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Oct 7, 2002
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Billy Graham, the great evangelist, tells of driving through a small southern town and being stopped by a policeman and being charged with speeding. Graham admitted his quilt, but was told by the officer that he would have to appear in court. The judge asked, "Guilty, or not guilty?" When Graham
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Feb 10, 2006
In the film ‘The Buddy Holly Story’, Gary Busey starred as Buddy Holly. The year is 1956. Buddy Holly and his band ‘The Crickets’ have sold thousands of records with their first hit ‘That’ll be the day’. Somehow they manage to get themselves a live concert at a very popular venue. The crowd have
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Anglican
Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 21, 2003
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A pastor received a call from a church that offered him a salary four times what he was then receiving. Being a devout man, he spent much time in prayer trying to discern what God wanted him to do. One day a friend met the pastor’s young son on the street. “Do you know what your dad is going to
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Baptist
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A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don’t believe that God
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