Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2005
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The new minister was asked to teach a boys’ class in the absence of the regular teacher. He decided to see what they knew, so he asked who knocked down the walls of Jericho. All the boys denied having done it, and the preacher was appalled by their ignorance.
At the next deacons’ meeting he told
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Oct 7, 2004
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. JOHN WELSEY
Traveled over 250,000 miles on horseback over a period of 40 years preaching the Gospel
Preached 40,000 sermons
Wrote 400 books
Knew 10 languages
At 83 he was annoyed that he couldn’t write more than 15 hours a day without hurting his eyes.
At 86 he was ashamed because he
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 26, 2007
natives surrounded the mission station, intent on burning out the Patons and killing them. Paton and his wife prayed during that terror-filled night that God would deliver them. When daylight came they were amazed to see their attackers leave. A year later, the chief of the tribe was converted to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
(Illustration) President Eisenhower told this tale, "An old farmer had a cow that we wanted to buy. We went over to visit him and asked about the cow’s pedigree. The old farmer did not know what ’pedigree’ meant, so we asked him about the cow’s butterfat production. He told us that he did not have
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Illustration of our responsibility: April 19, 1995 at 9:02 a.m., the Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed resulting in the death of 168 people. Three men were ultimately arrested and tried in what was at the time the worst attack ever on United States soil, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols,
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Calvin Coolidge
I was reading the other day. ‘Once, President Calvin Coolidge invited some folks from his hometown to dinner at the White house. Since none of them knew what proper etiquette should be on a state occasion, they thought the best policy would be to do whatever the President did.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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. I REMEMBER AS A BOY GOING WITH MY GRAND DAD TO AN OLD GRIST MILL ON THEN SALADO CREEK, WITH A BIG WATERWHEEL THAT TURNED WITH THE WATER FROM THE CREEK.
I. GRAND DAD WENT THERE TO HAVE HIS CORN GROUND INTO CORN MEAL AND ONE MORNING WE DROVE TO THE MILL AND THE WATERWHEEL WAS NOT TURNING BECAUSE
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Egg Cartons
A PREACHER found a shoe box in his closet. When he Opened it he found some strange contents. Inside was an egg carton with 5 eggs inside. Next to the eggs was a stack of bills that totaled over 10,000 dollars.
As soon as his wife walked thru the door he stopped her to ask if she knew
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A disease left Helen Keller blind and deaf as a very young girl. Her family hired Anne Sullivan to take care of Helen. Through Anne’s tireless and selfless efforts, Helen finally learned to communicate through touch and even learned to talk. When Anne first told Helen about God, the girl’s response
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Thirdly, and finally, we need to rise with Jesus, the Christ I don’t know if any of you knew this; but, the late great Prime Minister and British Statesman, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965), arranged his own funeral. There were stately hymns in St Paul’s Cathedral, in London,
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jul 15, 2007
Philip Yancey, in his book, The Jesus I Never Knew, gives this illustration: "George Buttrick, former chaplain at Harvard, recalls that students would come into his office, plop down on a chair and declare, ’I don’t believe in God.’ Buttrick would give this disarming reply: ’Sit down and tell me
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2007
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The Silent Treatment
A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment.
Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight.
Not wanting to be the first to break the
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 27, 2007
We lived in Montrose, CO for four years and often went to the town of Telluride. Telluride is a beautiful resort town, with skiing and a gondola and much more. But it didn’t always have a good reputation. To this day to get to Telluride you must drive a narrow, curvy, two lane road. Back in the
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Christian Church
In 1976 a relatively unknown politician from the small town of Plains, Georgia decided to run for President. His name was Jimmy Carter, and although he had served as the Governor of Georgia, no one else in the country knew very much about him. During that campaign he was asked about his faith and
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Baptist
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James S. Hewett, former pastor of Saratoga, California’s Presbyterian Church, tells this story: “A class of high school sophomores had been assigned a term paper. Now the day of reckoning had come, the papers were due. The teacher knew that a particular student, named Gene, had not been working
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 21, 2008
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WHAT KIND OF LEGACY WILL YOU LEAVE?
Sir Nicholas Winton was a stockbroker in 1938 when Hitler’s troops began to march into Czechoslovakia. In his gut he knew that something evil was underfoot. He quit his job as a stockbroker and began to charter trains, raise money, and transport Jewish children
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Apr 27, 2009
THE STINK LETS YOU KNOW
March 18, 1937. It was just 17 minutes before school was to dismiss in the little town of New London, TX. It was oil country, and the school board had decided to save some money by using natural gas siphoned off an oil company’s pipeline. It would allow them to fuel the
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