Contributed by Bradley Kellum on Aug 25, 2009
Have you ever used a magnifying glass? What is the purpose of a magnifying glass?
A magnifying glass does several things: it makes the object look bigger thus making it easier to examine and see. It also brings the object into greater focus, enabling us to see detail we would not be able to see
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Baptist
Contributed by Douglas Vincent on Jan 27, 2004
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In April 1998, a series of tornadoes ripped through the southern part of the United States. A day after one of the Storms had hit the NPR program All Things Considered aired a story about a congregation called the Church of the Open Door. Their church had been destroyed the day previous.
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Methodist
Contributed by Dana Chau on Nov 13, 2002
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Zig Ziglar tells of the time after he gave his speech, a man came up to him and told him the following:
"When I was 10 or 11 years old, I told my parents I had homosexual feelings toward other boys. My parents said that they would support me in whatever I chose in life. Since then, I entered
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Nov 18, 2002
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"Once upon a time there was a king who owned a beautiful orchard which contained fine fig trees. He hired two watchmen; one blind and one lame to care for this orchard while he went away on a trip.
One day while they were in the orchard, beggars, blind men, lame men, poor widows and hungry
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Lutheran
Contributed by Richard Weinert on Dec 10, 2002
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A QUIET HOUR<p>
Amid the Christmas rush and noise<P>
Of Christmas trees and childrens toys<P>
Of gift and bow and mistletoe <P>
And presents laid out in a row<P>
We need to take a quiet hour<P>
To contemplate all Heaven’s power<P>
Which sent to earth our Heavenly King<P>
When angels in the realm
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 23, 2009
There is a community here in the United States where a Christian Church had such blaring music and so many mission trips and so many children and families that people in the neighborhood issued a petition to make the church quieter. They went to a Jewish neighbor and asked him to sign the petition.
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 27, 2002
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“The Big Feather Bed”
Dr. J.C. Massee was pastor of Tremont Temple in Boston but he was reared in Georgia. He said his mother was the sweetest woman in the world, but there was one thing she was very strict about. She wouldn’t let her children play on her snow-white feather beds. She prided
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Pat Cook on Jul 11, 2003
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One day a father and his daughter were out for a leisurely drive in the country. It was a hot summer day and the windows were rolled down. Suddenly the daughter began screaming and fidgeting in her seat. A bee had just flown inside the car through the open window. This would not have been a problem
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Baptist
Contributed by Ron Newton on Aug 6, 2003
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"Enriching Every Sphere" by Henry G. Bosch from Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations Signs of The Times, Assurance Publishers
Illus... #2679 “Enriching Every Sphere”
"Socrates taught for 40 years, Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and jesus for only 3. Yet the influence of Christ’s 3-year ministry
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Holiness
Contributed by Steve Malone on Nov 13, 2001
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Here is a parody of Luke’s account of the birth of Christ, that really underscores just how far our world has let the true meaning of Christmas slip away from them.
"And there were in the same country children keeping watch over there stockings by the fireplace. And lo! Santa Claus came upon
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Christian/Church Of Christ