Contributed by Andy Beech on Mar 29, 2008
My Child
I would like to rejoice with the rest, Lord,
But there’s a great big ache in my heart -
For someone I love is suffering, Lord,
And I don’t know how to start.
Will you help me sing carols again, Lord?
And make all my fears depart?
Will you lead me safely to Bethlehem
To worship with all my
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Methodist
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Mar 30, 2008
“Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation spends millions of dollars regularly since 1999 on television and other forms of media advertising offering the free book, “Power for Living”. Non-denominational pastor and author Jamie Buckingham wrote the book. DeMoss’ business reached half a billion dollars in
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jun 10, 2008
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NAILS IN THE FENCE
There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.
Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 16, 2008
*Some will be saved. And we must keep trying to reach them, even though many will reject the message, just like they did here in Acts 28:24.
*Wray Ivey was one of my mentors when we lived in Macon. He was our pastor at First Baptist Church in Macon, and a great guy. One Tuesday night Wray and I
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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John Wesley: Desired personal holiness, but felt like a failure.
A serious man speaking to John Wesley, "Sir, you wish to serve God and to heaven? Remember that you cannot serve him alone. You must therefore find companions or make them; the Bible knows nothing of solitary religion."
Wesley's
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 22, 2009
A body is not crippled ’til its heart has ceased to praise. Louis Albert Banks tells of an elderly Christian man, a fine singer, who learned that he had cancer of the tongue and that surgery was required. In the hospital after everything was ready for the operation, the man said to the doctor, "Are
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 5, 2009
“The Road to Safety”
A news correspondent, forced to jump from a crippled plane over New Guinea, landed safely. He sought a way out of the jungle. Up mountains, down the rivers, through the thick jungle growth he traveled, only to return discouraged to his starting point.
Day by day, week by
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Christian Church
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Dec 27, 2009
I love Baptisms. I always love it when people respond to Jesus in this way.
I remember as a TEENAGER
seeing people from our YOUTH GROUP
being BAPTISED in a BAPTISMAL POOL
at the FRONT of our Church.
It was so STRANGE to me.
I watched as people WALKED DOWN THE STEPS
of a SMALL POOL at
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 23, 2010
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CAST A LINE FOR YOURSELF
A poor, hungry man stood idly on a bridge watching some fishermen. Seeing one of them with a basket full of fish by his side, he said, "If I had a catch like that, I'd be happy. I'd sell it and buy some food and clothes."
"I'll give you that many fish if you do a small
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Mar 23, 2010
The psychoanalyst Victor Frankl and his friends were imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. It was winter. They had been marched off to work in the morning, spent the day at hard labor, been given only a little thin soup to eat, and then staggered back to camp in the late
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Apr 30, 2010
“These Hands”
A young man and a young woman were engaged to be married and were looking forward to a near wedding day when the young man was suddenly called to serve his country. From the field of warfare letters regularly came and went and love shone brightly in all of them.
The letters from
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Christian Church
Contributed by David Owens on Jun 23, 2010
Do you remember Jesus’ radical prescription for avoiding temptation? In Matthew 5:27-30, He suggested that we should cut out or cut off whatever it is that leads us into sin.
In the news this week was the story of Hartford, CT resident Jonathan Metz, a single man, who lived alone, who while
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
DOCTORS: What They Say and What They Actually Mean
What they say: "It could be one of several things."
What they mean: "I haven't the foggiest idea what's wrong with you."
What they say: "Are you sure you haven't had this before?"
What they mean: "Because you've got it again."
What they say:
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Brethren
Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
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THE JEWELED LADY OF POMPEII
Of the 20,000 inhabitants of Pompeii, some 2,000 lost their lives, among them a woman who loved finery above all else. As the deadly rain of fire came down, she decided to run to the harbor and escape by ship. That was wise, but this rich and beautiful woman stayed
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SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
In 1502, in Florence, Italy there was a large block of marble given to a church in Santa Maria, the church immediately hired who they thought was a professional to sculpt this enormously huge piece of rock. The man was a professional and soon after commencing this great task
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Keith Peters on Jul 5, 2011
GET BUSY AND CAST A LINE
A poor, hungry man stood idly on a bridge watching some fishermen. Seeing one of them with a basket full of fish by his side, he said, "If I had a catch like that, I'd be happy. I'd sell it and buy some food and clothes."
"I'll give you that many fish if you do a small
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Baptist
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