Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jan 19, 2009
When the preacher's car broke down on a country road, he walked to a nearby roadhouse to use the phone. After calling for a tow truck, he spotted his old friend, Frank, drunk and shabbily dressed at the bar.
"What happened to you, Frank?" asked the good reverend. "You used to be rich." Frank told
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Baptist
Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 9, 2011
FORGIVING FLOWERS
Fifteen years ago in Houston, a man named Ron Flowers accidentally shot school teacher Deirdra Washington through a car window during the course of a failed drug deal and was sent to prison for 35 years. Her family was consumed, destroyed by grief and anger. For 14 years Flowers
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Tim White on Apr 2, 2012
LOST IN THE NOISE
A youth pastor wanted to illustrate something to his students. He placed some valuable objects on small tables around the room. On one of the tables was a Bible. There was a $5 bill on another table. There was a kids' meal from a fast-food restaurant on one table. Other tables
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John Parker was seated outside the president’s box, in the passageway beside the door. From where he sat, Parker couldn’t see the stage, so after Lincoln and his guests settled in, he moved to the first gallery to enjoy the play. Later, Parker committed an even greater folly: At intermission, he
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Contributed by Eddie Snipes on Nov 11, 2000
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A Greek author from Caria named Phlegon wrote about the darkness that occurred in the 4th year of the 202nd Olympiad (equivilant to 33 A.D.). "There was the greatest eclipse of the sun. It became as night in the sixth hour of the day (noon) so that the stars even appeared in the
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Contributed by Troy Borst on May 1, 2003
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ILLUSTRATION… A. W. Tozer, Christian Publications, 1964, p. 90
Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most ancient Mystery, that
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Jul 29, 2003
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“The church is like Noah’s ark: The stench inside would be unbearable if it weren’t for the storm outside. It’s true—sometimes we stink and the world is stormy. But as imperfect as we are on this side of heaven, the miracle is that God in fact chooses to
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 5, 2006
“Their bodies lie molding in the ground. Their bodies lie rotting in the earth. Their blood has been spilt in the sand, but their souls are alive and conscious in heaven. They speak and they know what is happening here on earth, and they live and speak unto God. Human
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Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Dec 1, 2006
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What Is Faith?
FAITH is dead to doubts—
dumb to discouragements,
blind to impossibilities,
knows nothing but success.
FAITH lifts its hand up through
the threatening clouds,
lays hold of Him who has
all power in heaven and on earth.
FAITH makes the uplook
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Tony Abram on Nov 16, 2007
C.H. Spurgeon once said, "Prayer pulls the rope down below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly; others give only an occasional jerk at the rope. But he who communicates with
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Contributed by C Jordan on Jan 26, 2008
MOVIE ILLUSTRATION: SCHINDLER’S LIST: The film about the true story of Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. Last scene of the movie: “I could have got more. This car
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*other
Contributed by Peter Lobmiller on Apr 28, 2008
• We believe in one God-Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Creator of all things.
• We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, died, was buried, was resurrected, ascended into
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Contributed by Paul Kallan on Nov 18, 2002
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I would like to bring in here the story of the film “Chocolate” directed by Lasse Hallström [Heinrich Jacob, Der Prediger und Katechet, 6/2002. pages. 849-851]. A small, sleepy, and quiet french city. The inhabitants are lower-middle class, strictly moralistic, tied to tradtion, scrupulous and
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Catholic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 10, 2002
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THE EMPTY GIFT
"I was enjoying 1st grade to the fullest until one day in December when the little girl behind me set "it" on her desk. It was the tiniest Christmas present imaginable, less than an inch on each side with white glossy paper tied up with a sliver of red cellophane. Immediately I was
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 14, 2006
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“A few weeks ago I thought I was going out of my mind. At the time I didn’t realize I was experiencing a form of an "Anxiety Attack." My heart raced with fear as thoughts came to my mind of all the things I hadn’t accomplished that day. And the fear of failing the people around me made me want to
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 19, 2004
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Once we were in bondage Satan and sin. But Jesus set us free.
A story told by Paul Lee Tan illustrates the meaning of redemption. He said that when A.J. Gordon was pastor of a church in Boston, he met a young boy in front of the sanctuary carrying a rusty cage in which several birds fluttered
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Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 6, 2007
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Have you ever seen a young boy learning to use a hammer and nails? My 2 year old son Sebastian loves to help me whenever I am working around the parsonage.
He even has his own little plastic hammer that he uses as I use the real one.
Sometimes I will let him try to hit the nail with his plastic
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Christian Church
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