Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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MY DILAPIDATED HOUSE
On his eightieth birthday, John Quincy Adams was walking slowly along a Boston street. A friend asked him "How is John Quincy Adams today?"
The former president replied graciously,
"Thank you, John Quincy Adams is well, sir, quite well, I thank you. But the house in which
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Contributed by Evie Megginson on Apr 19, 2004
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I heard the story of a boy who was pumping the old pump organ in a church so a certain lady could play it. After the service, he said to her we really played well today. She snapped back, what is this we stuff, I played well today. Well the next Sunday, she
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on May 16, 2026
[350]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - WORTHY WORTHY IS THE LAMB
The setting for this poem is Revelation chapters 4 and 5. The scene is in heaven where the Bride of Christ is gathered, a mighty number of people purchased by the blood of the Lamb.
As should be the case, Jesus is in the midst.
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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On November 28 of this year, I was driving west from my house at about 7 in the evening. It was quite dark already. As I looked through the windshield of my vehicle, I saw a line in the sky. A bright white line. Because it was so far away, this line in the sky must’ve been half a kilometre long.
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 26, 2010
J. Vernon McGee- When I preached at a church in the downtown financial district of Los Angeles, I found that men, even including some Christian men, were far more zealous in coming down early on a Monday morning to watch the stock market open than they were on Sunday morning to attend church
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The morning is the gate of the day, and should be well-guarded with prayer. The morning is one end of the thread on which the day's actions are strung, and should be well-knotted with devotion. If we felt
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Contributed by Scott Brewer on Jul 29, 2007
William Willimon used to be the dean of the chapel at Duke University. "One day he received a phone call from a very irate father. The father exploded on the other end of the line, telling Willimon furiously, ’I hold you personally responsible for this!’ He was angry because his
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 17, 2007
When Ohio State Football team played poorly the first game against a weak Youngstown State team they could have easily criticized and blamed each other, but they didn’t. Their high powered running back Chris Wells couldn’t score from inside the one yard line to top off an awlful day for him. When
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Melvin Newland on Aug 14, 2001
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A few years ago Calvin & Hobbes were my favorite cartoon characters - Calvin, the hyper-active little boy with a wild & vivid imagination, & his companion, Hobbes, a tiger.
Well, in one cartoon Calvin & Hobbes were lying in the shade of a tree on a summer afternoon discussing the important
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This chair I’m sitting in is being stressed by my weight. As a former engineer, there was a time in my life when I could calculate those stresses – but not any more! So, this chair is under stress - but it is not stressed out! The stresses on it are well within its capacity. Those stresses TEND to
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