Once upon a time, a lady worked at a meat distribution factory. One day, when she finished with her work schedule, she went into the cold room to inspect something. But in a moment of misfortune, the door accidentally closed and she was locked inside. Although she screamed and knocked with all her
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Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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When Steve Tran of Westminster, California, closed the door after activating twenty-five bug bombs, he thought he had seen the last of the cockroaches that shared his apartment. When the spray reached the pilot light of the stove, it ignited, blasting his screen door across the street, breaking all
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Contributed by Greg Yount on Nov 30, 2001
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Bible teacher A.T. Pierson tells about a new convert to Christ who had a strange dream in which
he was trapped down a very deep well in the night. He looked up and saw a single star shining far above
him, and it seemed to let down lines of silver light that took hold upon him and lifted him up.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2002
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In answer to William Ernest Henley’s "Invictus", charging that he is the captain of his soul, leaving no room for Christ’s work on the cross, Dorothea Day answers him in her poem, "My Captain". What a great comparison between the heresy of salvation by works and salvation by grace:
Out of the
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Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Dec 27, 2003
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b. The story of the origin of the Christmas crèche rests with St. Francis of Assisi.
St. Bonaventure tells the story like this. In the year 1223, St. Francis, a deacon, was visiting the town of Grecio to celebrate Christmas. Grecio was a small town built on a mountainside overlooking a beautiful
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Contributed by Evie Megginson on Oct 15, 2004
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Twenty years later Rembrandt painted another picture of himself. As a young man he determined to deny himself no pleasure. He, therefore, sought out every delight and followed his appetite. Hence, one by one the torches of his life went out. Having been untrue to himself, he lost faith in others.
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The work of the Riddler is a very strange, different, and very unique work. The work of the Riddler requires much patience and time and skill. Ramone the Riddler can turn ninety bottles of champagne per minute, thirty-thousand bottles a day, and more than 100 million in his lifetime.
Each bottle
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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Dr. J.B. Gambrel tells an amusing story from General Stonewall Jackson’s famous valley campaign. Jackson’s army found itself on one side of a river when it needed to be on the other side.
After telling his engineers to plan and build a bridge so the army could cross, he called his wagon master in
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 25, 2006
"The Voice of the Martyrs’ New Book, IRAN: Desperate For God, Released
June 28, 2006
For decades, Iran has been a hotbed for terrorist activity. Little do most people know that Iran also houses the fastest-growing Muslim movement in the world: Muslims converting to Christianity. In IRAN:
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Contributed by Tony Searles on Nov 24, 2006
Do any of you remember the loss of the vessel called the "Central America"? She was in a bad state, had sprung a leak, and was going down. She therefore hoisted a signal of distress. A ship came close to her, and its captain asked, through the trumpet, "What is wrong?" "We are in bad repair and are
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Contributed by Mack Armstrong on Feb 18, 2007
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Ah, what an easy job is his,
The man who’s in the preaching biz!
He has but little work to do,
For all he does the whole week through
Is just to call upon the flock
As regularly as the clock;
To cheer the sick who groan in bed,
To preach a sermon for the dead;
To teach the sinner righteousness,
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 12, 2009
RABBIS AND DISCIPLES
"Parables such as those Jesus used were extremely prevalent among ancient Jewish sages, and over 4,000 of them have survived in rabbinic literature...the rabbis of Jesus’ day spent much of their time traveling throughout the country...to communicate their teachings and
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