Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 12, 2011
OVERWHELMING FORGIVENESS
A wonderful example of how to practice the lifestyle of grace comes from an incident in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 2006, when a man entered an Amish schoolhouse and murdered 5 girls while wounding 5 others before killing himself. As horrific as this
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 29, 2012
A FAR, FAR BETTER THING
In Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, the young Frenchman Charles Darnay was condemned to die by the guillotine. When Sidney Carton learned of his friend’s situation, he determined to lay down his life in place of his friend. He determined to do this, not because he
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Independent/Bible
Bible Marketing Plan
An Anglican priest, Roman Catholic priest and Pentecostal minister went on a marketing course selling Bibles in Nottingham to supplement their incomes.
Before going on the course, they were asked to go around the week before and see how many Bibles they could sell.
The
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Anglican
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 4, 2012
THE THREE-LEGGED CHICKEN
One day a traveller was driving down a back country road when he noticed that there was a three-legged chicken running alongside his car. He stepped on the gas but at 50 miles per hour, the chicken was still keeping up. After about a mile of running, the chicken ran up a
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Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Dec 28, 2012
We humans tend to come to blockages and stop. The other day I was using a vacuum cleaner, the nice new yellow one here at the hall, I turned it on and it worked (tuned it on made all the right noises). But it had no suck. It had become blocked and jammed with hay where the hose met its body, thanks
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Contributed by Matt Neace on Aug 7, 2018
An Arkansas woman's stolen cash was turned over to police with a letter of apology from the thief who took it from her wallet.
Susan McNabb said she left her wallet, and the $160 cash it contained, behind at the Walmart store in Clinton, and when she returned a short time later, the wallet was
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Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Aug 15, 2018
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I live in Arkansas. I LOVE when autumn comes and fall leaves drift down on autumn breezes. But in Arkansas, you have to be careful about those leaves on the ground because some of them conceal SERPENTS.
There are lots of Copperhead Snakes here. Copperheads are venomous Pit Vipers that strike you
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Oct 28, 2019
Church feuds are not uncommon, especially among cliques in the congregation. But when the pastor and choir director get into it, stand aside. One week, the preacher preached on commitment, and how you should dedicate yourselves to service. The director then led the choir in singing, 'I Shall
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Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Apr 16, 2020
When you get saved later in life like I did (I was 36), your spirit gets recreated, you’re all in on this salvation deal, but your flesh is still out there in the world, and it don’t know yet the program has changed.
It’s like when you go on a diet. You stop eating all the ice cream, and donuts
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illustration: A Revival meeting was being held in a certain church but unfortunately like so many Revivals nothing seemed to be happening. The attendance was good, the singing was good, and the preaching was good, but God just didn’t seem to be moving. One night, one of the Deacons stood up and
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jun 10, 2007
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Robin Meyers, in his book Morning Sun on a White Piano, quotes theologian Ernest Campbell who summarizes the ministry of Jesus with these words: “A reforming Jew, convinced that the people had turned love into legalism, [Jesus] went about asking those people who thought they were ‘in’ (Pharisees,
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Methodist
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