Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 16, 2007
A Deacon once on a visit to John Wesley’s home, was bragging on how much he suffered and was willing to suffer for the Lord. Then a puff of smoke from the fireplace blew into his face. He said "See Wesley how I suffer for Christ!" Wesley’s reply was "Man
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 27, 2008
Remember in college when you mixed your drink at the coke dispenser. A little coke, sprite, cherry coke, diet coke, power aid and you got a strange conglomeration. It looks and tastes nothing like the original things you put in it. People like Tiger Woods use this approach.
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 19, 2008
A friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg, even though you’re a little cracked. Erma Bombeck
William Ward says, ‘A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 22, 2008
Resources are being completely used up. In Ireland, they used up the forests and timber decades ago. Right now, the primary source of oil including heating oil and gas comes from the North Sea. But at current consumption levels, those supplies will be used up in fifteen years. So Ireland
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Aug 13, 2008
WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE THIS?
In an old Dennis the Menace cartoon, Dennis and his little friend Joey are leaving Mrs. Wilson's house, their hands full of cookies. Joey says, "I wonder what we did to deserve this."
Dennis answers, "Look,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Aug 31, 2008
"Jesus' great sentence does not forever settle the question of Christians' relation to the state, because every day we must ask ourselves afresh if we are giving too little or too much of our energies to the political. Jesus' Caesar sentence is a slide rule asking us perpetually to readjust
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 14, 2008
A daddy came home one day carrying a gift that certainly caught the interest of his three sons. “This gift is for the little boy who has been so good, he has picked up all his toys and has listened to mommy.” The three boys sat united in
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Salvation Army
CHRISTIAN HOME
A family was driving home after church and they noticed little Johnny was sitting in the back seat crying his eyes out. Mom asked him several times what was wrong, but he just kept crying.
Then finally he sobbed, "The pastor said
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jul 25, 2011
I'M THE GREATEST!
"I’m the greatest batter in the world!" Such was the cry of a self-confident little boy swinging his bat in the back yard. Once, twice, and three times he could not connect with the ball. Dejectedly, he set his bat down. But then his eyes
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Peter Mwariri on Dec 31, 2011
A family gathered around the table for a meal on New Years' Day. A little boy of five asked his father, "Dad, what happened to the previous year?"
The father said, "It is gone."
"Where?" the boy asked.
"Nowhere. It has just grown old," the father answered.
"I want to see
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 28, 2006
ILL. The late Erma Bombeck in her book, "If Life is a bowl of Cherries, Why Am I Always in the Pits?", recalled the legend of a church where the chimes rang miraculously whenever someone gave a generous gift.
But the chimes hadn’t rung for a long time, even though kings & potentates had come
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Contributed by Ryan Yandris on Mar 8, 2003
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ORPHANED GIRL AND WOUNDED MOTHER
One day a little orphan girl who was about 5 years old had a visitor. The Nurse had pre warned the child that this wasn’t just any visitor. It was a lady who had severely crippled her back and her hands were withered. Her whole body was scared with deep wounds
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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John McArthur-Grace to You-The Life Saving Station
On a dangerous sea coast where shipwrecks often occur, there was once a crude little life-saving station. The building was just a hut and had only one boat, but the few devoted members kept a constant watch over the sea. With no thought for
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Contributed by Chris Surber on Sep 17, 2009
When I was a child growing up in North Central California, my favorite time of year was winter. While it seldom snows in the San Joaquin Valley, the great agricultural valley which runs nearly the full length of the State of California, only a little more than an hour’s drive away from Modesto are
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Christian Church
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 27, 2010
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LOVE IS ACTION
I took Helen (eight years old) and Brandon (five years old) to the Cloverleaf Mall in Hattiesburg to do a little shopping.
As we drove up, we spotted a Peterbilt eighteen-wheeler parked with a big sign on it that said, "Petting Zoo." The kids jumped up in a rush and asked,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 18, 2005
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Loving others involves kindness and sacrifice. In the days when an ice cream cone cost much less, a 10 year old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him. “How much is an ice cream sundae?” he asked. “Fifty cents,” replied the waitress.
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