Contributed by Evie Megginson on Apr 6, 2004
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One Sunday morning a pastor was dressing for church and had the radio on listening to a local church service. Suddenly he heard to minister say, "It’s Easter, and it doesn’t make any difference if Christ be risen or not..." Shocked, A.H.Ackley shouted," It’s a lie! He is risen!" His wife said,"
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Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Feb 4, 2008
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Are you part of “the called?”
Frances Ross, our neighbour, was home early on Wednesday afternoon and she called to me from her balcony to offer me some of her garden vegetables.
This gave me quite a start…
For an instant, since all I heard was my name in a female voice, I thought the feminists
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
A man went inside a telephone booth and dialed the number of a friend. When the connection was made, the friend kept saying, "I can’t hear you; speak louder; I can’t hear you." All he could hear was the roar of traffic in the background. "Shut the door so I can hear," he said to the caller.
In
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Douglas Vincent on Jan 27, 2004
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Prior to his death, Roman Catholic Priest Henri Nouwen articulated, I believe, the struggle for many of us who are responsible to lead and serve in God’s Church. One voice says to succeed and achieve. It is the voice Nouwen says he spent most of his life heeding. He taught at Notre Dame,
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Contributed by Douglas Vincent on May 28, 2004
Prior to his death, Roman Catholic Priest Henri Nouwen articulated, I believe, the struggle for many of us who are responsible to lead and serve in God’s Church. One voice says to succeed and achieve. It is the voice Nouwen says he spent most of his life heeding. He taught at Notre Dame,
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Methodist
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 11, 2008
Get involved and be willing to learn. I think sometimes the greatest damage the Christians do to our collective witness is being unwilling to learn and listen to the perspectives of others. They think that they are to get involved but that ends up meaning that they are there not to help but make
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 25, 2007
Charlie Peace, a criminal in England, on the day he was being taken to his execution, listened to a minister reading from the Word. And when he found out he was reading about heaven and hell, he looked at the preacher and said, "Sir, if I believed what you and the church of God say, and even if
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Aug 12, 2010
He lay in a bed seat, slightly twisted and looking at me with one eye half open. I was finishing a small Bible study devotional with a group of aged people on a passage from the book of Job in the Bible, telling them that God loves them and still has a purpose for their lives, to look UPWARD NOT
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Katherine Kehler gives practical advice on the need to spend the day with the Lord:
Usually our days are filled with the demands of life crying for our attention, ...but today, whether for four, eight or 12 hours, your only priority is to be with your Lord ...to bask in His love, to thank and
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Contributed by Kermit Reaves on Jul 24, 2007
Some people are asleep because they have never been awake. I am familiar with that state because I was once in it myself. I attended church, heard God’s Word preached, sang the great hymns, listened to others pray — but with no depth of comprehension. I was simply present where others worshiped. I
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Baptist
Contributed by Richard Wafford on Aug 17, 2007
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The American Banking Association once sponsored a two-week training program to help tellers detect counterfeit bills. The program was unique never during the two-week training did the tellers even look at a counterfeit bill, nor did they listen to any lectures concerning the characteristics of
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Baptist
Contributed by Kent Kessler on Oct 14, 2010
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JESUS KNOCKING
A nurse on the Pediatric Ward before listening to the little ones' heart beat would plug the stethoscope into their ears and let them listen to their own hearts. Their eyes would always light up with awe, but she never got a response to equal four-year old David's comment. She
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Methodist
Contributed by Carl Greene on Feb 16, 2009
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CHILDREN ON SILENCE
Author Kathleen Norris used to play a game with elementary-school children in which she would make a deal with them. "First you get to make noise," she would bargain, "and then you’ll make silence."
The time of noise was always predictably chaotic -- shouting, pounding and
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Mar 17, 2012
DON'T JUST FOCUS ON THE "POPS AND SIZZLES"
There once was a man who owned a record company. Besides running the record company, he spent many hours in production listening to the "master disc," from which was the record and all subsequent records were pressed. Over the years his ears became adept
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Brethren
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 28, 2009
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"BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS - for they shall be called sons of God."
You may say "Well that’s nonsense. All you have to do is see all the so-called Christians who have been involved in bloody conflict in history, all done in the Name of God". In fact even Al-Qaeda operates in the Name of a god
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 29, 2002
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THE HEARTBEAT:
A nurse on the pediatric ward, before listening to the little ones’ chests would plug the stethoscope into their ears and let them listen to their own hearts. Their eyes would always light up with awe. But she never got a response to equal four year old David’s. Gently
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
A ‘05 CDC Study reports 47% of U.S. high school students have had sexual intercourse, vs. 54% in ’91. Yet the nation is the world leader in teen pregnancies and STDs. A Child Trends report revealed less than 30% of females and less than 50% of males consistently use condoms, and nearly 20% of
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 4, 2007
Max Lucado tells of a friend of his who teaches under-privileged children in an inner city church. Her class is a group of 9 year olds who love life and aren’t afraid of God. There is one exception though, a timid girl named Barbara. She lives in a home that has left her afraid and insecure. For
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Christian Church
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