Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 20, 2001
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THE CHOICES WE MAKE
Every single day we make choices that show whether we are courageous or cowardly. We choose between the right thing and the convenient thing, sticking to a conviction or caving in for the sake of comfort, greed or approval. We choose either to take a carefully thought-out
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Contributed by Jonathan Lucas on May 11, 2001
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The Iron Maiden
In Strausbourg, France there is an Iron Maiden that was used for torture during medievel times. Molded into the likness of a beautiful maiden it bore death for those that came within it’s grasp. Outwardly it was appealing, but it was what is inside that is deadly. As a victim
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Steve Malone on May 15, 2001
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I HEARD OF YOUNG MOTHER WHO WENT DOWN TO THE NURSERY AT A HOSPITAL AND FOUND HER YOUNG HUSBAND PEERING DOWN AT HIS NEWBORN BABY WHO WAS ASLEEP. THE MOTHER COULD TELL HE WAS CAPTIVATED BY THE SCENE AS HE STOOD THERE LOOKING AT THE SLEEPING INFANT. SHE WAS SO TOUCHED THAT FINALLY SHE TIPTOED UP
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by David Limiero on Jun 5, 2001
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And yet James Dobson asked hundreds of teens what they would like to tell their parents. Their answers might surprise you:
* Teach us about God and spiritual things.
* Guide us towards good marriages by modeling a good one.
* Don’t curse and smoke, if you don’t want us too.
* Be consistent and
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 1, 2001
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Martin Luther wrote, “I study my Bible like I gather apples. First, I shake the whole tree that the ripest may fall. Then I shake each limb, and when I have shaken each limb, I shake each branch and every twig. Then I look under every leaf. I search the Bible as a whole like shaking the whole tree.
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Church Of God
Contributed by Tim Bond on Jan 24, 2002
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In ancient Greece they had great theatrical events, plays in large amphitheaters. They didn’t have microphones to make their voices heard, and they didn’t have cameras to magnify their images onto screens, so they invented their own system. They developed big masks. The masks made them look like
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jan 30, 2002
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TROUBLE HEARING
One evening while we were dining in a restaurant, a waiter strode through our section asking, "Does anyone here drive a red New Yorker?" We assumed its headlights had been left on.
"Yes!" an elderly gentleman in a neighbouring booth responded emphatically.
His wife reacted
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 20, 2002
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Andrew Carnegie made millions in the steel industrial. He worked hard helping the poor and underprivileged. Once a socialist came to see him in his office and soon was railing against the injustice of Carnegie having so much money. In his view, wealth was meant to be divided equally. Carnegie asked
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Contributed by Eldon Reich on Mar 28, 2002
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Guy who was getting married, had the ring in his hand and said:
Sweetheart, I love you so much,
I want you to marry me.
I don’t have a car like Jonny green,
I don’t have a Yacht like him
I don’t have a house his size,
I don’t have the money of Jonny green
But I love you with all my heart.
She
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Methodist
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Three men applied for a job driving a truck over a mountain route. The first guy said,
"I’m such a good driver, I can come within one foot of the edge without losing control." The
second guy said, "Oh yah, well I can come within six inches of the edge and not lose control."
The man doing the hiring
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Baptist
Contributed by Steven Dow on Sep 18, 2002
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In a Peanuts cartoon Lucy demanded that Linus change TV channels, threatening him with her fist if he didn’t. “What makes you think you can walk right in here and take over?” asks Linus. “These five fingers,” says Lucy. “Individually they’re nothing but when I curl them together like this into
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Contributed by Scott Bradford on Nov 15, 2002
"Author Leo Buscaglia tells this story about his mother and their "misery dinner." It was the night after his father came home and said it looked as if he would have to go into bankruptcy because his partner had absconded with their firm’s funds. His mother went out and sold some jewelry to buy
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 2, 2002
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My pastor friend, Danny Moss, recent-
ly told about the time he ’played Santa’
in a mall in Meridian, MS. Danny said
he had children come through with up to
thirty things on their ’want list.’ But
one small boy really got his attention.
Danny said, "I asked him if he’d been a
good boy?" It’s a
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Contributed by Gary Huckaby on Mar 5, 2003
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I am reminder here of a Church nursery, The Church had a speaker located in the nursery so the ladies could hear the preachers sermon, as they worked with the children. Often during the sermon, the preacher would raise his voice in a loud tone in order to get his message point across. In the
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Baptist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 3, 2003
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C. A store manager head his clerk tell a customer, “No, ma’am, we haven’t had any for a while, and it doesn’t look as if we’ll be getting any soon.” Horrified, the manager came running over to the customer and said, “Of course we’ll have some soon. We placed an order last week.” Then the manager
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 28, 2003
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They tell me there were these three professionals sitting around a table talking about what the oldest profession was. The doctor says, "Well, the Bible says that God took a rib out of Adam to make woman. Since that clearly required surgery, then the oldest profession is medicine.” The engineer
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Baptist
CNN reported on President Bush¡¦s statement:
He stated, "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman and I believe we ought to codify that one way or the other and we have lawyers looking at the best way to do that."
His response was due to the latest Supreme Court ruling overturning a
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Contributed by Kerry Tilley on Feb 15, 2004
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After five years of therapy the psychiatrist told his patient that they seldom used the term “cure,” but he was please to pronounce her completely cured. To his surprise the patient became obviously disappointed. The doctor asked, “What’s wrong? I thought you would be thrilled to know that your
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2004
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As an electrician I was once completing the final lighting fitment in a family home. With me at the same time were 2 other tradesmen, (a carpenter and a stonemason) who were also applying the finishing touches to their handy work. When the young couple that owned the house arrived, they excitedly
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