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The following true story is from the life of Louis XIV of France: One Sunday when he and his royal party arrived at church, no one was there except Archbishop Fenelon, the court preacher. Surprised to see all the vacant seats, the King inquired, "Where is everybody?" Why isn’t anyone else present
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Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Oct 27, 2004
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Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher, told a story about a goose who was wounded and who landed in a barnyard with some chickens. He played with the chickens and ate with the chickens. After a while that goose thought he was a chicken. One day a flight of geese came over, migrating to their home.
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Contributed by David Elvery on Nov 14, 2004
There was a story told of two taxidermists who stopped before a window and immediately began to criticize the way an owl had been mounted. Its eyes were not natural; its wings were not in proportion to its head; its feathers were not neatly arranged; and its feet could certainly be
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Contributed by Kory Wilcoxson on Feb 19, 2005
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There’s a story of a farmer who was taking a sackful of corn to sell in town. On the way there, he sees the king ride by in his fancy golden chariot. The farmer flagged him down and stopped him, and said, “Dear King! You give me so much through your benevolence and generosity! I wish there was
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 23, 2005
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There is an old story about a pastor leaving a church. At his farewell dinner, he tried to encourage one of the pillar members, “Don’t be so sad. The next pastor might be better than me.” She replied, “That’s what they said last time, but it
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Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Mar 28, 2005
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This story was related by Donald Grey Barnhouse. Several years ago, two students graduated from the Chicago-Kent College of Law. The highest ranking student in the class was a blind man named Overton and, when he received his honor, he insisted that half the credit should go to his friend,
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Contributed by J.d. Tutell on Mar 31, 2005
Lee Strobel shares the following story in the "Case for Easter." In 1963 the body of 14 year old Addie Mae Collins, one of four African-American girls tragically murdered in an infamous church bombing by white racists, was buried in Birmingham, Alabama. For years family members kept returning to
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Contributed by Tim Richards on May 18, 2005
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I want to conclude with a story that Tony Campolo tells about a time he was asked to speak at a Pentecostal college. He remembered that before the service, eight men had him kneel so they could place their hands on his head and pray. He was glad to have prayer, but each of them prayed a long time,
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Contributed by Johnny Creasong on May 27, 2005
A missionary on furlough told this true story while visiting his home church in Michigan.....
"While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, every two weeks I traveled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies. This was a journey of two days and required camping overnight
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Contributed by John Gerald on Jun 2, 2005
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The story was passed on over internet about Little Billy, a Jewish boy, who was failing his math lessons. His parents tried everything they could to get him to do better in this subject, but he continued to fail. At last, they took him down to the Catholic School, and enrolled him. After the first
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jun 25, 2005
In the highly rated Smallville, the WB’s story of Superboy, Clark Kent is just learning about his super powers. It is a perplexing and frustrating time for him. His powers really come to light when he is accidently run down by Lex Luthor and yet is unhurt. Not only is he spared any pain but is able
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 29, 2005
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[There is the story of four pastors who gathered for coffee every Monday morning for a time of reflecting together how each one’s ministry was doing. One pastor shared with the group that he was having quite a problem with bats gathering in the church bell tower and wanted help in finding ways to
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Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jul 19, 2005
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I am reminded of the story of the discussion at church camp for children where one of the counselors was leading a discussion on the purpose of God has for all of his creation.
They began to find good reasons for the clouds and trees and rocks and rivers and animals and just about everything else
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Contributed by David Ritsema on Sep 7, 2003
One of the big stories in the mid-nineties that you may recall being on all the TV news broadcasts was the concern for a dying species of owl in the Northwest called the Spotted Owl. The concern was that the logging being done in the area was actually destroying the species. But according to a
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Oct 16, 2005
This is a true story, written by Emory Thomas Jr., and was printed in the Wall Street Journal.
Ernest “Bud” Miller was the president and chief executive officer of Arvida, which is a real-estate company. Mr. Miller closed regional offices, reorganized departments, and laid off half of his work
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Story: In March 2004, I was in the second bookshop in Dymchurch rummaging through the books when I came across a second hand Jerusalem Bible.
As I opened the Bible up, a number of papers fell into my hand.
On one of them was written a story. It was obviously very meaningful to the previous
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