Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 10, 2002
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Let me close off with a baptism I was able to witness in Lexington. A man after the service was baptized, he was in a wheel chair, he had MS. Before he was baptized into Christ, he shared this story. He said that he was so pumped about being baptized that he woke up at 4 in the morning. And
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Jun 17, 2003
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A couple of years back, Susan, Esther and I flew out to Washington DC to spend time with my mentor for two weeks. One night after dinner at my mentor’s house, both Susan and I raced to the kitchen sink to do the dishes. When I beat Susan to the dishes, my mentor’s wife made the comment, "I guess
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jul 23, 2007
I recently read this story: “Back in the 1920s, when Lou Little coached football at Georgetown University, he had a player of average ability who rarely got into the game. Yet he was fond of him, and especially liked the way he walked arm-in-arm with his father on campus. Shortly before the big
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2003
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SINCE GOD IS GOOD, CAN I HAVE HIS NAME?
If you’re in Lake City, Fla., one of these days and happen to run into a 50-something fellow with a sandy moustache, a receding hairline, and aviator glasses, you may be in the presence of I Am Who I Am. Really. But that’s because Columbia County Court
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Contributed by Mary Lewis on Aug 3, 2003
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I read a story this week about a woman who was the only English teacher in a small rural school. She described what she called “the mixed pleasure of teaching my own three sons.” They begged her not to call on them in class, use them as examples, or tell any family stories— rules to which their mom
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Contributed by Bo Dunford on Jan 21, 2009
*I read a story of a soldier in WWI who was so distraught with the war that he deserted!
* Tried to find his way to the coast so he could catch a boat, make his way back home to England.
* In the darkness of the night he stumbled on a road sign. * It was so dark and he was so lost, he
had no
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 22, 2025
[174]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – I WAS WOKEN OUT OF SLEEP
11 August 2025. I had the most terrible dream. It was so involved and graphic, and it was like justice was closing in on me for some heinous crime though I knew I was innocent yet oscillating with on and off with guilt. I want to forget
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Mar 31, 2009
A Christian surgeon once said, "I feel so close to God when I am operating that I don’t know where my
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Rach and I have a friend who is a source of grief for us. It is not that he has done anything to us – he is quite dear to us actually. Rather it is what he has done to himself, what he has chosen to believe. About ten years ago, this friend began absenting himself from church. He was getting
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Contributed by Jim Heidebrecht on Jun 21, 2007
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I want to tell you about a man by the name of Rick Rescorla
He was the Vice President of Security for Morgan Stanley
He predicted the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center
Worked 12 hours helping rescue workers looking for survivors
Then he predicted that the Terrorists would try again –
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Baptist
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I’m not a SCUBA diver, but SCUBA has always fascinated me. When you take up SCUBA, one of the things that they will teach you is that your bubbles are always right.
when you’re deep underwater, you’re surrounded by an aura of light and it is very difficult to tell which way is up. The water
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 13, 2010
I was speaking with a man recently who had been in a near fatal car accident and he said that God didn’t seem to care about His injuries. I asked him if he blamed God and He said something to the effect of "Yes, GOD IS TO BLAME. Why didn’t He intervene when I had that car accident, or when my
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 7, 2008
A few weeks ago, I shared some questions that Gordon MacDonald believes are being asked by people at different stages of life. Now not only did those questions really interest me and cause me to think about the questions that I am asking at this point in my life, the story that MacDonald opened the
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 14, 2012
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Years ago, I spent a couple of years at Purdue University and some of the classes I took were in Philosophy. In one of those classes, the professor (who was an atheist) stood up in front of the class and said “Jesus didn’t die on the cross, and I can prove it.”
His proof?
He said that when a
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