Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
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Chuck Swindoll tells of a mountain man from West Virginia who had never seen a city, or bright lights and modern inventions. He married a girl of the hills and they spent all their married years in the backwoods. Their one son, creatively named “Junior,”
reached his sixteenth birthday, [and] his
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Contributed by Greg Buchner on Mar 3, 2003
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Illus. - Bubba and the potato field
An old man lived alone in Idaho. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was backbreaking work, and his son, Bubba, who used to help him, was in prison.
The old man mentioned it in a letter he sent to his son by saying, “I’m not sure exactly what to do.
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Contributed by Tim Richards on Dec 1, 2004
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In his book, When God Whispers Your Name, Max Lucado tells the story of John Egglen, who had never preached a sermon in his life before the Sunday morning when it snowed and the pastor wasn’t able to make it to the church. In fact, he was the only deacon to show up. He was not a preacher, but he
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Contributed by Kent Kessler on Dec 27, 2006
One Pastor performed a baptism service in sort of a special way. He told the people before they came up to the platform to be baptized to take a piece of paper, write down a few of the sins they’ve committed, and fold the paper. When they came up to the platform, there was a large wooden cross on
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Methodist
Contributed by Andy Grossman on Jun 18, 2008
In one of his meetings, D.L. Moody was explaining to his audience the truth that we cannot bring about spiritual changes in our lives by our own strength. He demonstrated the principal like this: "Tell me," he said to his audience, "how can I get the air out of the tumbler I have in my hand?" One
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Holiness
Contributed by Ray Ellis on Sep 10, 2006
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Compassion –Acts of kindness showing God’s love.
A Hospice physician living in Denver, Colorado wrote about his experience of showing God’s kindness to a desperate mother.
I was driving home from a meeting this evening about 5, stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd., and the car started to choke and
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Brian Phillips on Nov 13, 2007
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A Buzzard and a Humming bird fly over the same desert. One is looking for something dead and rotting. The other is looking for pretty,
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Baptist
Contributed by Bryan Ness on Sep 4, 2002
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Viktor was seated in a crowded train headed for Budapest. He was one of the leading bee experts in Hungary and he was transporting a box of bees, which he had placed under his seat. He was enjoying the passing scenery and the cool breeze coming from the open window. As he was talking to the
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 19, 2004
Speaking about the topic dealt with in this psalm, Bro. J. Vernon McGee tells the story of how he and his wife lost their first child in the hospital. He gives the following account:
I only heard the cry of that little one. All she ever did in her life was cry. I shall never forget the day
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Contributed by Scott Epperson on Jan 1, 2007
TO BIG FOR GOD
Remember when you first came to God compelled by the Holy Ghost you were found in sin and conceived by grace and mercy. Remember your first breath of the life everything look so much brighter and you had hope and faith in nothing else but in Christ. I remember the feeling of the
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Pentecostal
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