Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
Eagles sometimes drown while hunting. They catch a fish too heavy for it to really carry and if it can’t drag it to shore quick enough it may hang on and be dragged under the water and drown
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Dana Visneskie on Feb 13, 2004
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Don’t ever tell John “Tex” Teixeria that prayer doesn’t work.
Tex spent his life as a fisherman in the channels of the Hawaiian Islands. On a deceptively calm night in 1967, Tex guided his 40-foot fishing boat toward the beach of an otherwise inaccessible canyon on the north side of Molokai. He had
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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“Jesus transformed a mountainside into a Bible conference; a fishing boat into an evangelistic platform; a wellside into a counseling room; and, the shadows of evening into an opportunity to lead Nicodemus into the experience of the new birth. He preached the Word
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Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on May 10, 2007
Many years ago, a survey was made of a town. At a certain door, the surveyor asked the woman who answered the door, if she had any children.
Suddenly, she began to say, "Well, there’s Willie, Horace, Orace, Grace, and Ethel." The surveyor interrupted and said, "Never mind names, I just want
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Baptist
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 4, 2004
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It is interesting that Time magazine in 1971 noted that labor experts were predicting that by the new millennia we would be on a national 4 day work week and have an abundance of leisure time. Those projections have not come true, in fact exactly the opposite has happened. According to a
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Christian Church
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 13, 2006
C.S. Lewis, in Christian Theology in Plain Language
“Do fish complain of the sea for being wet? Or if they did, would the fact not strongly suggest that they had not always been, or would not always be, purely aquatic creatures? If you are
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Richard Jones on Nov 1, 2000
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A group of well-intentioned people met to discuss ways and means of helping a friend who had been down on his luck recently. Knowing him to be an extremely proud person, who would not accept money, they decided to arrange a bogus raffle. They told him that they would all draw numbered slips of
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Baptist
Contributed by Tim Spear on Dec 6, 2012
There are 2 ways of handling pressure:
One is illustrated by a bathysphere, the miniature submarine used to explore the ocean in places so deep that the water pressure would crush a conventional submarine like an aluminum can. Bathyspheres compensate with plate steel several inches thick, which
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Baptist
So what about us? We call ourselves Christians, that is followers of Jesus. What kind of disciples are we? Do we have a purely academic interest in the words of Jesus, or are we prepared to put him first in our lives? Are we ready to fish for
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
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There are two major bodies of water in the land where Jesus walked. One is the Sea of Galilee, a beautiful lake 13 miles long and 7 _ miles wide filled with fish and surrounded by lush foliage.
The other body of water is the Dead Sea, 50 miles long and 11 miles wide, the shoreline of which is
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Contributed by Kerry Kinchen on Nov 10, 2003
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"I may not here omit how, notwithstand[ing] all their great pains and industry, and the great hopes of a large crop, the Lord seemed to blast, and take away the same, and to threaten further and more sore famine unto them. By a great drought which continued from the third week in May, till about
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
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There once was a man who had nothing for his family to eat. He had an old rifle and three bullets. So, he decided that he would go out hunting and kill some wild game for dinner.
As he went down the road, he saw a rabbit. He shot at the rabbit and missed it. The rabbit ran away.
Then he saw a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
The number 13, for example:
The Turks so disliked that number that they practically removed it from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894).
Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue.
Many buildings don’t have a 13th floor.
And according to information I had a number of years ago, some
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Contributed by David Swinney on May 31, 2010
My dad used to tell a story about an old Georgia redneck who would routinely head out into the swamp and return with a boat full of fish—more than anyone could conceivably catch, even in a long day of fishing with rod and reel. Well, in the course of time, his exceptional good luck caught the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Mary Lewis on Jul 11, 2002
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Children lined up in the cafeteria of a religious school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The teacher made a note: "Take only one, God is watching." At the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate
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Baptist