Contributed by Keith Davis on May 5, 2003
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Hammers and Anvils
I paused last eve beside the blacksmith’s door.
And heard the anvil ring, the vesper’s chime.
And looking in I saw upon the floor
Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.
“How many anvils have you had?” said I.
To wear and batter all these hammers so?”
“Just one,” he
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Contributed by Mark Connelly on Jul 31, 2003
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I’ll tell you what I’ve seen some pretty lousy gospel presentations that people respond to. I’ve done it myself. There have been times when I’ve presented the gospel so poorly that I was boring myself, but the person responded in faith. There have been other times when I’ve answered every
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Contributed by Richard Tow on Dec 1, 2003
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The hope of heaven is a powerful strength for godly living that many people seem to virtually ignore in their daily lives. It was Myrtle Erickson who wrote:
Think of stepping on a shore and finding it heaven
of taking hold of a hand and finding it God’s hand
of breathing new air and finding it
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Charismatic
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Video Illustration: The Beginning of Mission Impossible when the agent accepts the Mission.
We look a video clip like this and we admire this man for accepting the mission and all the risks that go along with it. The truth is we envy this man because he is willing to live his life on the edge and
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We need not fear acknowledging the darkness within us. If you have read Dante’s Divine Comedy, you will remember that Dante described himself as being lost in the dark woods. After a while, he looked up and saw Paradise brilliantly crowning the crest of a nearby mountain. As you and I might have
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Contributed by David Schaal on May 20, 2004
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A natural example of this point can be found by looking at the two seas in the Holy Land. The Sea of Galilee freely receives and gives out water. It has an abundance of life, nurturing many different kinds of fish and plant life. The water from the Sea of Galilee is carried by way of the Jordan
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Pentecostal
Contributed by David Parks on Jun 2, 2004
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Just Next To Me
Our preacher sure did pour it on,
But he just let me be.
He took the starch all out of them
That sat just next to me.
You should have heard the things he said;
It was true as it could be;
He burned the seat from under them
That sat just next to me.
He hit the nail square
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Contributed by Kent Lenard on Jul 3, 2004
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I read a story about a church member who had brought their parents to church with them. While they were waiting for the service to start an usher who was looking for seats for someone noticed that there were two empty seats on their row. He asked "Are those two saved", talking about the seats.
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An ingenious teenager, tired of reading bedtime stories to his little sister, decided to record several of her favorite stories on tape. He told her, "Now you can hear your stories anytime you want. Isn’t that great?" She looked at the machine for a moment and then replied, "No. It hasn’t got a
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Mar 12, 2005
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"A great deal of our anxiety to make excuses comes from not really believing in the forgiveness of sins, from thinking that God will not take us to Himself again unless He is satisfied that some sort of case can be made out in our favor.
But that would not be forgiveness at all. Real forgiveness
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Contributed by Joseph Byrd on Mar 30, 2005
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I’m reminded of a little story about a Christian who dies and goes to heaven. He is met by St. Peter, who takes him on a tour of heaven. As they are going by beautiful golden buildings, he asked St. Peter what they were. St. Peter opened the door to one and there are thousands of beautiful golden
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On a snowy winter’s day in 1941, SS Gruppenführer Hans Wolf received orders that he was to search the house of his own pastor Martin Kirchschläger.
Kirchschläger was a Lutheran pastor closely connected to the Confessing Church.
Wolf came to Kirchschläger to tell him that he would be
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Contributed by Stephen Wright on Jul 10, 2005
A general rode up to a gunner standing by his gun. He took out his field glasses and looked around. "Pierre," he said to the gunner, "you see that little cottage over there. The one near the clump of trees." "Yes, sir," said Pierre turning pale. "There’s a nest of Prussians in there. I want you to
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Contributed by Brian Oberg on Jul 22, 2005
Madonna said, "Money . . . sex . . . food. . . . they’re not what’s going to make us happy. They’re not real. They don’t last. There’s only one thing that lasts, and that’s your soul. And if you don’t work on that, and you don’t pay attention to that, then all the money in the world is not
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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In addition to Mt. Rushmore, one of Gutzin Borglum’s great works as a sculptor is the head of Lincoln in the Capitol at Washington. He cut it from a large, square block of stone in his studio. One day, when the face of Lincoln was just becoming recognizable out of the stone, a young girl was
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Contributed by Mark Perryman on May 10, 2006
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A man went to his doctor for a checkup. The doctor did a very thorough examination and then asked the nurse to send the man’s wife into his office. The doctor said, “I have some very bad news, your husband is very sick. The good news is that there is hope. If you will take him home, cook him
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Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Oct 28, 2006
Read about Dr. Harry Ironside where he was called upon at his home by two nuns to collect money for a certain charity. He invited them inside and as he talked with them, he quickly and skillfully steered the conversation around to the subject of saints. Then suddenly he asked, "Would you like to
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A door-to-door salesman is selling encyclopaedias. He knocks on the door of a house and when the man of the house answers, the salesman begins to expound the virtues of his product. He hasn’t got very far into his sales pitch when the prospective customer says, “It’s no good to me mate, I don’t
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