Contributed by Scott Bradford on Apr 16, 2007
When I was about 4th Grade, I was playing Little Leauge Baseball…Well, mostly I played “benchwarmer” for the Reds. The two coaches were Methodist… Members of the church my father pastored. You think that would help. Sometimes, if the Reds were ahead…I’d get in for just a little bit. But, mostly we
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United Methodist
Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jun 23, 2007
Back on the ranch where I spent my summers when I was young, my Dad and some of the other men used to break horses to ride and then would train them for various tasks according to their abilities and breeding.
The first thing they always did was to gain the animal’s trust. They would then trained
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 31, 2007
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I remember one day when I was about 10 or 11 years old and I had decided to go all the way across town to my grandmother’s house one summer afternoon. It was a scorching hot day in Northern California and I had about 6 miles to walk to my grandmother’s house because my bicycle had a flat tire.
I
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Christian Church
Contributed by Stephen Evoy on Dec 14, 2007
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The first year I was a pastor, I didn’t take any vacation. Early in my second year, I heard a story about two lumberjacks. One lumberjack worked so hard that he refused to take any breaks—even to sharpen his chainsaw. The other lumberjack took fairly frequent breaks, and he spent a lot of time
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Free Methodist
I saw a sea of faces in a dream I had one day and millions stood before the throne whose sins were washed away
From every tribe and every land they all had heard the call
the rich, the poor, the black, the white, and Jesus loved them all
He loved them with their many faults He loved them with
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jul 22, 2008
Revelation 3:20, “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.”
“Come and have breakfast.”
“I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.”
The invitation is to relationship.
The invitation is for Jesus to
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Salvation Army
Disaster struck me one day when I was a boy. I don’t know where in the world my little sister came back to the house real dirty and smelly. Some type of dark sticky slimy stinky substance was all over her and she was crying up loud. She had tried to get rid of it by using her dirty hand and as you
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 28, 2009
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One summer while I was in church camp I had a preacher friend ask me, "Do you work 40 hours a week? There are many preachers out there who don’t."
And what if a preacher or anyone else, for that matter, were hired to work 40 hours a week and they didn’t work 40 hours a week? That would be
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