Contributed by Scott Jensen on Jun 26, 2008
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In the city of Philadelphia there was a little third-class hotel. Into it one night there came two tired elderly people. They went up to the night clerk and the husband pleadingly said, “Mister, please don’t tell us you don’t have a room. My wife and I have been all over the city looking for a
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Contributed by Bob Marcaurelle on Oct 10, 2005
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If I yell up to you in the middle of the night, that your house is on fire; I do not want you to sing praises to me, tell me how much you love and trust me, and go back to sleep. I know you trust me when I see you run out the front door with a kid under each arm. I know you trust me when
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 10, 2002
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William Boice once wrote:
"-- Dear Lord, I have been re-reading the record of the rich young ruler and his obviously wrong choice. But it has set me thinking. No matter how much wealth he had, he could not -
ride in a car,
have any surgery,
turn on a light,
buy penicillin,
hear a pipe
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Contributed by Kenneth Henes on Jun 23, 2004
Dear Lord,
I have been re-reading the record of the Rich Young Ruler and his obviously wrong choice. But it has set me to thinking.
No matter how much wealth he had, he could not --
ride in a car,
have any surgery,
turn on a light,
buy penicillin,
hear a pipe organ,
watch TV,
wash dishes in
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DO WE HAVE THE TENDENCY TO OFFER GOD SMALL THINGS?
Sometimes we offer to God but a very little. Crumbs, scraps.
It has been calculated that in a typical 70 year life span:
Sleep ---- 23 years ----32%
Work ---- 16 years ---- 22%
TV ------ 8 years ------ 11%
Eating --- 6 years ---- 8%
Travel --- 6
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Alan Perkins on Mar 27, 2001
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* 42 percent of workers reported that yelling and verbal abuse took place where they worked.
* One in ten said that physical violence had occurred where they worked.
* 34 percent had lost sleep because of workplace stress, and 23 percent had been driven to tears.
* Almost two-thirds, 65 percent,
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Nov 9, 2007
What is it like to sign your name to a paper that could possibly mean the end of your life? What is it like to walk down the cold hallways of a processing station? What is it like to sleep in a squeaky bunk bed where men have laid down their lives to never come home again? It takes the faith of
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
There’s a movie called “Shadowlands” about the life of C.S. Lewis. At one point, Lewis is told by a friend, "I know how hard you’ve been praying .... Now, God is answering your prayer."
"That’s not why I pray, Harry," Lewis says. "I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 20, 2008
ome problems have simple and quick solutions.
“Our patient in the hospital was a big, burly former officer. Just after surgery, and still half out of it, he became agitated and confused, tearing at his IVs and trying to escape his bed. The nurses gamely attempted to keep him calm, but were losing
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Apr 9, 2009
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TOO CLOSE TO WHERE I GOT IN
A little boy fell out of the bed in his sleep. His father picked him up and put him back in bed. He asked him, "Son, what happened?" The little boy responded, "I fell asleep too close to where I got in."
I believe that describes too many Christians today...they have
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2006
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TBN Troubles Ministry watchdog Wall Watchers has recommended Trinity Broadcasting Network leaders Paul and Jan Crouch step down from TBN leadership, citing their lavish lifestyle, a lack of TBN financial transparency, and other problems. The announcement also notes the couple takes home an annual
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 13, 2006
Back in 1968, Will Herberg wrote an article called “What Is the Moral Crisis of Our Time?”
“The moral crisis of our time cannot, it seems to me, be identified merely with the widespread violation of accepted moral standards, for which our time is held to be notorious. There has never been any lack
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 3, 2007
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1 Tim. 6:6-9- "6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 for we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.
You know that verse is the absolute truth? I was at my kids birth and they brought nothing into this world. My two boys didn’t pop out wearing Reeboks. My
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Christian Church
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
Sometimes a thing has to be repeated until we hear and understand.A man asked his physician what to do about his wife’s hearing, which he felt was deteriorating. The doctor suggested a little test, which the man applied. He went home and found his wife working at the kitchen sink. Just inside the
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 16, 2008
Ed Vasicek on the Parable of the Prodigal Son
If some Dr. Spock-like psychologist wrote this parable, he might say that the Prodigal left home because his father oppressed him, or that he was sheltered from life by his overly-protective mother and the poor financial prospects in a profit-driven
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