Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Nov 19, 2002
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Harriet Martineau was an atheist. One morning she & a Christian friend stepped out into the glories of a beautiful fall morning. As Harriet saw the brilliant sun peaking through the haze, & the frost on the meadow, & the brightly colored leaves making their way lazily to the ground, she was filled
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jun 22, 2003
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In the John Wayne movie, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon," The John Wayne character is noted for telling people, "never apologize, mister, it's a sign of weakness." I hate to tell you this, but as much as I love John Wayne movies, his character is dead wrong on this one.
When we’re
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Wesleyan
Contributed by John Gullick on May 18, 2004
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A philosopher of last century, Bertrand Russell was an outspoken atheist. He even wrote a book called Why I Am Not A Christian. When Russell was 81 years old, he was interviewed on a British Broadcasting Corporation radio talk show. The interviewer asked him what he had to hang onto when death
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 10, 2005
A surgeon at the Baptist Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, talked realistically about economizing. The minimum daily wage there is less than the hourly wage here in our country. He said: “We discovered a long time ago that you could sew up people with nylon fishing line. I found that
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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There was this lady who was visiting a church one Sunday. The sermon seemed to go on forever, and many in the congregation fell asleep.
After the service, to be social, she walked up to a very sleepy looking gentleman, extended her hand in greeting, and said, "Hello, I’m Gladys Dunn."
And the
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Feb 26, 2006
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A three-year-old girl was listening intently to the children’s sermon one Sunday morning at her church. The minister explained that God wants everyone to get along and love each other. He said, “God wants us all to be one.” To which the little girl replied, “But I don’t want to
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Nov 3, 2006
A young boy was applying for a job at a local newspaper office. The manager asked him, "Can you type?" "No sir," came the reply. "Can you run a printing press?" asked the manager. "No sir," again came the answer. "Well, young man, what can you do?" The boy stood
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Baptist
Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Feb 19, 2007
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A retired preacher was cleaning out the dresser when he found 5 eggs and $1K.
•He asked his wife and she said she saved 1 egg for every bad sermon.
He thought, "5 eggs in all those years. That’s not too bad. But what’s the
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Contributed by Neil Partington on Jul 31, 2007
The second grade teacher had been giving a lesson on science. She had explained about magnets and showed how they would pick up nails and other bits of iron.
Now it was question time, and she asked, “My name begins with the letter M and I pick up things. What am
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Dec 31, 2007
One Sunday when Louis XIV and his royal party arrived at church, no one was there except the court preacher, Archbishop Fenelon. Surprised, the King said, "Where is everybody?" Why isn’t anyone else present this morning?" The minister said "I announced that Your Majesty would not be here today,
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Christian/Church Of Christ
GOING THE SECOND MILE
A salesman called his wife from a coin-operated phone in a distant city, finished the conversation, said good-bye, and replaced the receiver. As he was walking away, the phone rang. He went back and answered it, expecting to be informed of extra charges. But the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 29, 2009
Dennis the Menace was caught causing trouble around the house and his mother had all she could take from him and said to him, "Dennis the way you’re behaving, how do you expect to get into heaven?"
To that Dennis said, "Well, I’ll just keep slamming the door
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Baptist
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jun 11, 2009
The Blessed Future
The doctor did not think the dying daughter would hear when he said to the mother, "Poor child; she has seen her best days." But she heard him and said, "No, Doctor, I haven’t seen my best days; my best days are still to come when
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Christian Church
Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 27, 2009
MOVING AND FRIENDSHIPS
We live in a society where people, especially young adults, move so often they don’t have time to develop deep friendships. My mom and step father lived in the place where I grew up for about 25 years. During that 25 years, I moved
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