Contributed by John Knight on May 2, 2002
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Pastor Doug Forsberg, an associate at Bethany First Church of the Nazarene recently spoke of an experience he had while pastoring a small church in Florida. It involved a member of his church, an older gentleman by the name of Benny. Now Benny was about ninety-nine to one hundred years old and he
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Contributed by John Shearhart on May 16, 2002
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Have you ever heard these humorous epitaphs?
1. “Here lies Anne Mann. Who lived an old maid, but died an old Mann.”
2. “Beneath this sod, a lump of clay lays Arabella Young; who on the 21st of May began to hold her tongue.”
3. “The children of Israel wanted bread, the Lord sent them
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Contributed by John Hamby on Jun 25, 2002
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In his book, “Mere Christianity,” C.S. Lewis declares, “God is going to invade this earth in force. But what is the good of saying you are on his side then, when you see the whole universe melting away like a dream, and something else - something it never entered your head to conceive - comes
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Contributed by John Knight on Jul 15, 2002
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If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it. -Spanish Proverb
Thomas Edison invented the microphone, the phonograph, the incandescent light, the storage battery, talking movies, and more than 1000 other things. December 1914 he had worked for 10 years on a storage battery. This had greatly
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Contributed by John Hamby on Aug 6, 2002
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Alan Redpath sums up how many feel even when they have prayed, “When we have finished our praying we can scarcely bring ourselves to believe that our feeble words can have been heard, or that they can have made a difference in the things concerning which we have been praying. We’ve said our prayers
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Contributed by John Hamby on Aug 6, 2002
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YOU CAN'T OR YOU WON'T?
Ray Stedman tells the story of one man’s explanation for his lack of forgiveness:
He said, “A man once said to me, ‘I know I’m a Christian, but someone once did an awful thing to me – something I just can’t forget or forgive.’
I replied, ‘Are you sure you can’t
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Contributed by John Tung on Apr 25, 2007
And just like a bird needs to have both wings working together and be equally well for it to fly strongly, so a church needs to have both wings – the internal and external ministries – be working and be equally well for a church to soar strongly and far.
Recently in the news in Stafford County
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by John Price on May 9, 2007
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Mother Teresa once said “True holiness consists in doing
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Pentecostal
Contributed by John Quigley on May 29, 2007
Dealing with people is so very difficult, this week on Thursday as I was working on my sermon for today, my computer system went down. I was no longer able to connect to the internet, I was studying for the sermon and I was no longer able to do so. I called the folks at Wild Blue and told them what
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As a young father, one of the great delights I had was putting the presents for my children under the Christmas tree each year. The bigger ones that required assembly would always make the night a little longer than it should have been, because I always prided myself in my ability to figure out
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Baptist
Contributed by John Foster on Jun 10, 2007
If you are a marathon runner you are encouraged to eat pasta the night before the race because pasta has lots of energy in and the speed of release of energy from Pasta is slow so that you get it during the race just when you need it. It’s actually a bit more complicated than that though.
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Methodist
Contributed by John Montgomery on Jun 21, 2007
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I know there are times that we don’t feel that this applies to us PERSONALLY .... Think about it... It’s the great commission The "GREAT" Commission. We don’t think of ourselves as being able to accomplish great things....we’re just ordinary folk. This doesn’t apply to us, it only applies to
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Baptist
Contributed by John Montgomery on Jun 21, 2007
A missionary on furlough told this true story while visiting his home church in Michigan... "While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, every two weeks I traveled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies. This was a journey of two days and required camping overnight at
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Jun 26, 2007
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I recently finished the book, D-Day, by Stephen Ambrose. D-Day occurred on June 6, 1944 when allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy by ship and plane to defeat Hitler’s evil Nazi Germany. There are literally thousands of stories of bravery and heroism to tell from that day, but I want to
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Contributed by John Wright on Jun 28, 2007
Collin was 5. As a disciplinary measure, his folks sent him to his room. “Stay there until you are ready to act right”, they said. After 20 minutes, Collin reappeared.
“I have 2 things to say,” he announced, “Number one – on one ever comes into my
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