Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 22, 2010
WE'RE BUILDING TWO A DAY
In the 1880s the Methodist Church was privileged to have a leader named C. C. McCabe. He was a church extension pioneer and strategist, and a great achiever he was.
One day he was on a train, riding out to the Pacific Northwest to help develop and launch a strategy for
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Contributed by Bret Toman on Oct 31, 2012
GOD OPPOSES THE PROUD AT MT. ST. HELENS
In the spring of 1980, the mountain showed signs of awakening. There were earthquakes. There was volcanic activity. Residents were told to leave the area. But Harry Truman would have nothing to do with that. He believed the danger was exaggerated "I don't
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Funerals usually go calmly. But sometimes things happen that change everything. Perhaps the greatest example is that of Easter morning, as the women arrive to prepare the body, only to find that the stone was rolled away and the body of Jesus was missing. There was much running around and great
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Contributed by Jim Blevins on May 2, 2009
SERVANTS AND SONS
Imagine at Mt. Sinai with all the lightning, thunder, smoke and the threat of death to any person or animal that even came close to the mountain, and how the people shuddered with fear as God was soon to speak His commandments. How would it have been if, after God had spoken
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Contributed by Charles Worth on Aug 7, 2009
SUBJECTIVE TRUTHS
The following story actually happened to me in 2005 at a state wide meeting. We had a wonderful time of fellowship the first night, a time of worship and a great message. My spirit was soaring until breakfast on the second day. As I came into the hotel dining room several of my
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 21, 2009
I was reading a book called "Scared" the other day by Ken Davis. It is the story about a journalist in Africa and his encounter with an orphan girl who is starving. Although it is a novel, as I sat in the loungeroom reading, I felt a deep sorrow for the tragedy of her situation, and I could not
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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Port Royal once situated on the island of Jamaica has been called “the richest and wickedest city in the world."
It was the natural rendezvous for most of the pirates of the Caribbean.
Liquor, women prostitutes, homosexual rendezvous, gambling, dope – every vice thrived in Port Royal “in
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 17, 2008
There once was a weak and sickly man. The man was so sick and he could not afford going to town to the doctor. The man lived in the deep back woods in an old log cabin, his condition seemed to grow worse. Out in front of his cabin was a huge boulder. The rock was massive in front of his place. One
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ON AN AMERICAN TROOPSHIP during World War II a new Chaplain came aboard. The rank and file of the sailors met him and they put to him this question, "Do you believe in Hell?" The Chaplain was a modernist and an unbeliever, and he said, "Men, certainly not." The men looked at
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 11, 2001
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Many years ago, a man by the name of Evans P. Dick had a dream of building a castle. He located a site on the Hudson River and laid the foundation for his dream home. To make sure of its quality, he imported his supplies all the way from Spain. Unforunately he ran out of money. He didn’t have
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Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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A compassionate man once noticed an emperor moth struggling to emerge through a small hole in its cocoon and decided to assist it. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the cocoon. The moth emerged easily, but it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The little moth spent the rest of
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Contributed by Clarence Crane on Feb 9, 2001
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A car is made to run on petrol [gasoline], and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on himself. He himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 3, 2001
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“…wickedness, when you examine it, turns out to be the pursuit of some good in the wrong way. You can be good for the mere sake of goodness: you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because
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