Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Nov 21, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    We need to return to returning thanks.
An old man showed up at the back door of the house some college students were renting.  Opening the door a few inches, the students saw that the old man’s eyes were glassy and his furrowed face glistened with silver stubble.  He clutched a wicker basket
                    
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                    Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Apr 2, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Decision Without Procrastination"
"During the early days of the ministry of Dwight L. Moody, the great evangelist launched a series of meetings in Chicago with promise of the largest crowds that he had ever addressed up to that time. He was speaking of the life of Christ, and on the first Sunday
                    
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                    Contributed by William Beard on May 22, 2007
                
                
                
                    PETER MARSHALL in one of his sermons told about a boy who had a TERMINAL ILLNESS.
“One night the boy was especially quiet and so his mother asked him what was BOTHERING HIM.
Mother, he said:  WHAT IS IT LIKE TO DIE, does it hurt?
She was silent for a moment and then she said:  “Son do you remember
                    
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                    Story: A man was arraigned for murder in Los Angeles about 60 years ago. It was a difficult case with a lot of circumstantial evidence. 
The man’s defence lawyer, however, thought of an ingenious ploy. In his summing up speech, he said:  
“Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, you must find my client
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 22, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    EASTER
Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid 1950s her father, British minister W. E. Sangster, began to notice some uneasiness in his throat and a dragging in his leg.  When he went to the doctor, he found that he had an incurable disease that caused progressive muscular atrophy.  His
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
                
                
                
                    Talk About Doing Good, or Do Good
In A Pretty Good Person, Lewis Smedes wrote:  
A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public school to African-American children. The white parents decided that, if they had to let black children in, they would keep their children out. They let it
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Kennedy on Sep 9, 2009
                
                
                
                    When my father passed away, I remember going to church that morning.  Our family had only been attending that church for a few weeks, and my dad was on his way to work that morning to put in some overtime, and he was going to meet us at the late service.  
The pastor later told us that it was the
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 13, 2011
                
                
                
                    MARGARET: THE HARD SOIL
Each week I give a devotion in each of the 8 dining areas of the Shalom Centre and Margaret (not her real name) is there, with ears which will not hear. Her heart is a fortress, cold, hard, defensive. The gates are huge, old and impenetrable, bolted with fear and pride that
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 11, 2018
                
                
                
                    Note: this story happened to me - Jim Butcher of Madison WV.
One of my favorite baptism stories comes from a friend of mine who owns a house on Heizer Creek.  He had a nice spot on his property to do baptisms and told the nearby country churches they were welcome to use it anytime, which a few of
                    
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                    One Saturday morning a minister was busily trying to prepare his sermon under the most difficult conditions. It was a rainy day, and his young son was restless and bored, with little to do. Finally, in desperation, the minister picked up an old magazine and thumbed through it until he came to a
                    
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                    Contributed by Bart Leger on Mar 15, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    “Beloved Christian reader, in matters of grace, you need a daily supply. You have no store of strength. Day by day must you seek help from above. It is a very sweet assurance that a daily portion is provided for you in the word, through the ministry, by meditation, in prayer, and waiting upon God
                    
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                    Contributed by Robert Travis on Jun 27, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I dreamed one night that an angel was talking to me. The angel spoke words of comfort all through the night. I awoke the next morning to find a lump under my pillow. It was a small stuffed "angel" bear that had fallen off the headboard of the bed. When you press its paw it says, "I’m your guardian
                    
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                    Contributed by Mike Leiter on Jan 15, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Two little boys got into a fight.  But the next morning Johnny took his cap and headed for Bobby’s house again.  Surprised, an older member of the family said teasingly, "What!  Going to play with him again?  I thought you had a fight last night and was never going to have anything more to do with
                    
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                    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 16, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    [illustration]
On Christmas morning, the children in a family do not usually all receive the same gifts.
One gets a football, one a puzzle, another receives a doll house, and another a table game.
Yet, although each child does not receive the same gifts as the others, the parents intend the gifts
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 10, 2005
                
                
                
                    Missionary Larry Cox of Burkina Faso tells of going out one Sunday morning with time only to visit two Churches. A runner came from the second Church just as he was leaving the first, telling him that people had been waiting there for over two hours to hear the gospel preached. People had gathered
                    
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