Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 24, 2003
The Farmer and His Ad
A certain farmer lived on the same farm all his life. It was a good farm, but with the passing years the farmer grew tired of it. He longed for a change, something better. Every day he found some reason for criticizing some feature. Finally he decided to sell it and so he
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Contributed by Chuck Hill on Dec 8, 2004
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COMING FOR HIS CROWN
When the Archbishop of Canterbury crowned Queen Elizabeth II, he laid the crown on her head with this pronouncement, “I give thee, O sovereign lady, this crown to wear until he who reserves the right to wear it shall return.”
The Archbishop
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 1, 2006
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And then there is the issue of His leaving the rich communion that He enjoyed with His Father. C.S. Lewis addressed this when he wrote, "Lying at your feet is your dog. Imagine, for the moment, that your dog and every dog is in deep distress. Some of us love dogs very much. If it would help all the
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Contributed by David Rumley on Jan 4, 2007
A runner and his daughter:
• A daughter asked her father, who ran on a consistent basis… After one cold morning like today… the daughter asked…
• Dad, do you determine how far you will run each time, or do you go as far as you feel like it?
• I find if I am running and think about how I am
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Pentecostal
Contributed by David Tack on Jul 6, 2009
IT'S ALL HIS!
We’ve charted at least 100,000 light years (186,282 mps) from rim to rim of world! - 600 million billion miles of stars...all His!
In the midst of the millions of galaxies, we have one galaxy called Milky Way. In the midst of which we have one star (we call sun), with its baby
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Baptist
Blackaby in his book "Power of the Call" shares on pages 14-17 what the qualifications of a spiritual leader are:
i. A leader has an absolute sense of urgency (Matt. 9:35-37)
ii. A leader has an absolute priority and commitment to prayer (Matt. 9:38).
iii. A leader is unconditionally related to
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HIS LONELINESS FOR YOURS
Here is the good news for us this morning. Each of us, every one of us received in that moment of time a great and precious gift. It is the gift of the presence of the Father – the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Jesus paid the price for your sin and you do not
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Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 5, 2010
MEET HIS STANDARDS
You don’t have to go to the Citadel. But if you go, you will find out quickly that you will fit their system or you are out. Jesus’ demands are like that. You don’t have to be
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Nov 20, 2010
HIS DANGEROUS CONDITION
A drunkard husband, spending the evening with his jovial companions at a tavern, boasted that if he should take a group of his friends home with him at midnight and ask his Christian wife to get up and cook supper for them, she would do it without complaint.
The crowd
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
THROUGH HIS BLOOD
In 1927, in West Africa, a blood specimen was taken from a native man named Asibi, who was sick with yellow fever. A vaccine was made from the original strain of virus obtained from this man. In fact, all the vaccine manufactured since 1927 by the Rockefeller Foundation and
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 15, 2010
OUTLIVED HIS CHILDREN
His weather worn face looked like ancient parchment stretched over a wire mesh skeleton and his eyes, haunted with memories, looked straight through me into my soul. As I gave my devotion that day I could tell that he understood the anguish Abraham must have felt as God said,
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CALLOUS ON HIS KNEES
The historian Eusebius tells us that St. James, first bishop of Jerusalem, "had a kind of callous on his knees, because he was always on his knees
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Sep 13, 2011
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THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERING
"Paul Marshall of the Hudson Institute estimates that at least 600 million -- and maybe closer to 700 million -- Christians world-wide are experiencing some level of persecution. That means roughly one in every three people who profess the name of Christ is
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HIS PROMISES ARE TRUE
I once went fishing with a friend of mine once, he said he knew of a good spot to fish. We got there and - nothing! We were there for about an hour without one single bite! I was ready to go home, his promise of a great fishing hole wasnt panning out.
Then something hit my
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Contributed by J.d. Tutell on Jan 13, 2012
A MAN AND HIS PORSCHE
A New York stockbroker had just purchased a brand new Porsche. He parked it in front of his office to show it off to his colleagues. As he's getting out of the car, an SUV comes speeding along too close to the curb and takes off the door before driving off. The man gets
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Contributed by Bret Toman on Jan 31, 2012
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MADE IN HIS IMAGE
In 1940 the Battle of Britain took place in the skies over England. Day after day hundreds of German bombers delivered to the targets below a cargo of death and destruction. The only thing stopping the certain defeat of the allies in western Europe was the Royal Air Force, whose
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Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Jan 14, 2013
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HIS YOKE IS LIGHT
Mark Guy Pearse preached a sermon on Christ's invitation to the weary and heavy-laden.
I had finished my sermon when a good man came to me and said "I wish I had known what you were going to preach about. I could have told you something."
"Well, my friend," I said, "may I have
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