Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 5, 2023
Do you remember, how once in the gospel, the Pharisees, trying to trap Jesus, came with that question about paying your tax? And how he asked them, “Show me the coin used for paying the tax." And how then he asked: "Whose portrait is it?" And how they answered, "It bears the
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Contributed by Ray Ellis on Sep 10, 2003
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George Beaverly Shea has sung many times a song written by Rhea Miller. It was George’s mother who started the whole course of events when she left a copy of Miller’s song on the family piano in their home in New York City. Years later, George Beaverly Shea wrote: "Instead of practicing the hymn I
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Free Methodist
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The life of Andrew Urshan is remarkable to say the least. There is a biography of him available from the Pentecostal Publishing House that every one ought to read. He wrote that his own disappointments had turned into being God’s appointments. There came a song from his own hand that was
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Contributed by Dean Morgan on Feb 18, 2005
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Twas The Night Before Jesus Came
Twas the night before Jesus came and all through the house
Not a creature was praying, not one in the house.
Their Bibles were lain on the shelf without care
In hopes that Jesus would not come there.
The children were dressing to crawl into bed,
Not once ever
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Dennis Davidson on Jul 10, 2011
WHEN MULLER PRAYED
During GEORGE MULLER'S life, he received more than 1,000,000 pounds from the Lord, without advertising - every penny came as an answered prayer. The following story is told by the captain of a ship on which he was traveling.
"We had George Muller of Bristol, England on board,"
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Baptist
Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
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GO FIND SOMETHING TO DO FOR GOD
Ruth Rettig tells the story of having gone through unsuccessful cancer surgery and following up with chemo in Houston, which meant 500-mile roundtrips from their home in central Texas. The trips were exhausting enough but the chemo made her feel sick to death. She
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Contributed by Chris Jordan on Apr 2, 2013
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THE SAILBOAT REDEMPTION
The story is told of a little boy who built a sailboat. He built the sail and had it all fixed up, tarred and painted. He took it to the lake and pushed it in hoping it would sail. Sure enough a wisp of breeze filled the little sail and it billowed and went rippling along
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 7, 2002
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After an evening out, some parents returned home to their children, whom they had left with the baby sitter. They were pleasantly surprised to find the kids fast asleep. When the sitter had been paid—just as she was walking out the door—she communicated this detail: "Oops—almost forgot to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 8, 2004
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Two apples up in a tree were looking down on the world. The first apple said, "Look at all those people fighting, robbing, rioting -- no one seems willing to get along with his fellow man. Someday we apples will be the only ones left. Then we’ll rule the world." The second apple though for a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
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The Rapture: In the Twinkling of an Eye by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins ranked # 4 on The New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Seller List for 6/25. This is the 15th of 15 titles in the “Left Behind” series to appear on The Times list and is the 11th in the series to debut in
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Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 10, 2006
Derek McGinnis, a 29 year old war vet, lost his left leg to a suicide bomber in Iraq, but he became determined not to let that stop him from his passion of surfing. With that determination, he gathered other war amputees around him to teach them how to surf.
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Don Jones on Mar 24, 2007
B.B. Warfield says, "A minister must be learned, on pain of being utterly incompetent for his work. But before and above being learned, a minister must be godly. Nothing could be more fatal, however, than to set these two things over against one another. Recruiting officers do not dispute
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Baptist
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Apr 2, 2011
A LITTLE GIRL'S DREAMS
A mother was taking her four-year-old daughter to school. She was a doctor and had left her stethoscope on the car seat. Her little girl picked it up and very excited began to play with it.
Excellent, thought the doctor, my daughter wants to follow in my
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Brethren
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There is a church in Millan, Italy that was bombed out during WWII. All of the walls of the church fell down during the war except one. The wall left standing had Leonardo Da Vinci’s "Last Supper" scene painted on it. What a wonderful illustration of how this meal that we call the Lord’s
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Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
In What’s So Amazing About Grace? Philip Yancey quotes Mark Twain. Apparently Twain used to say he put a dog and a cat in a cage together as an experiment, to see if they could get along. They did, so he put in a bird, pig and goat. They, too, got along fine after a few
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Wesleyan