Contributed by R. Darrel Davis on Oct 27, 2001
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Richard Roney is Chief of Chaplain Services at the VA Medical Center in Marion, Illinois. He reminds pastors they aren’t the only ones who hear excuses about not attending church; as a hospital chaplain, he’s heard more than his share:
"It’s snowing outside. I never attend church in bad weather."
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 24, 2002
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OVERWHELMING INFLUENCE
Historian Philip Schaff described the overwhelming influence which Jesus had on subsequent history and culture of the world: “This Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without science…he shed more
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 29, 2002
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WASHINGTON'S REQUEST
"I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to entertain a brotherly affection and
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Contributed by Matthew Rogers on Dec 16, 2001
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Many of you have probably seen the movie “Castaway” where Tom Hanks is stranded alone on an island. The film does a good job of showing his intense longing for the day when he will be rescued. He has a small picture of his fiancée, which he looks at day after day, year after year. Hoping,
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Martin Wiles on May 5, 2002
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Some of you may have seen the movie Santa Claus. It is the story of a little boy whose father becomes Santa Claus. The trouble is, he can’t get his mother and her new husband who is a psychologist to believe it. It begins to cause trouble in the family. One day, his stepfather is trying to get him
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 16, 2002
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MARRIED AND HAPPY WITH YOU-KNOW-WHAT
A new study commissioned by the Family Research Council of Washington, D.C., found that the people most likely to report a high degree of satisfaction with their current sex life are married people who strongly believe that sex outside of marriage is wrong.
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Aug 1, 2002
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ILL. An old legend has it that a wealthy merchant of the 1st Century who wanted to meet the Apostle Paul encountered Timothy, who arranged a visit for him with Paul who, at that time, was a prisoner in Rome.
Stepping inside the cell, the merchant was surprised to find a rather old man,
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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“Johnny Cash once did an album called “American Recordings.” On the album cover is a picture of two dogs. One dog is black with a white stripe. The other dog is white with a black stripe. The two dogs are meant to say something about to say something about Johnny Cash.
In an interview with
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United Methodist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 7, 2002
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Bob Shackleford reworded I Love to the Tell the Story. I love to tell the story of unseen things below, of people and their problems, each detail do I know. I love to tell the story, someone has said it’s true, to pass it on inspires me, as nothing else could do. I love to tell the story, But if
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Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 18, 2002
Deion "Prime Time" Sanders, outfielder for the Atlanta Braves and cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons and Dallas Cowboys, is the only athlete to have hit a Major League home run and scored an NFL touchdown in the same week.
Sanders grew up on the mean streets of Fort Myers, Fla., where exposure to
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Mennonite
Contributed by Paul Kallan on Dec 5, 2002
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Fank sat in the prison and pondered over the moment in which he hit his colleague Donald in a fit of rage. Frank had worked in a furniture factory. He knew that his colleague Donald disliked him for the way he prospered in life. As he chiselled, dressed and shaped wood into beautiful furniture, he
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Catholic
Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Dec 8, 2002
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Two men were walking through a field one day when they spotted an enraged bull. Immediately they ran toward the nearest fence. The storming bull ran after them in hot pursuit, and they realized that they were not going to make it. Terrified, one man shouted to his friend, “Say a prayer, John. We’re
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Roz Mason on Jan 14, 2003
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Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
A number of years ago one of the young men in my youth group bought a 1956 Ford pick-up truck. It didn’t run at the time and hasn’t since. He was going to fix the truck up and started to accumulate
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Methodist
Contributed by Ed Wood on Feb 7, 2003
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A man distributed tracts for many years on a street corner. Finally, seeing no visible results, he gave up. When he returned to the same spot two years later, he saw another individual handing out Gospel leaflets as he had done. Striking up a conversation, he discovered that the man had become a
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Contributed by Ed Wood on Feb 7, 2003
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The Associated Press carried an interesting story about a group of post office customers who succeeded in speeding up some slow-moving service. One man said, “It was like watching grass grow.” There were 26 patrons jammed into two lines. They realized they weren’t getting enough attention, so a
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Baptist
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"While visiting in Leningrad, a woman heard the story of 900,000 people who perished in the long siege of Leningrad during World War II. At one point they were trying to save the children from both the nazis and starvation---so they placed them on trucks to cross a frozen lake to safer locations.
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United Methodist
Contributed by Mark Hensley on Mar 13, 2003
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John G. Wendel and his sisters were some of the most miserly people of all time. Although they had received a huge inheritance from their parents, they spent very little of it and did all they could to keep their wealth for themselves.
John was able to influence five of his six sisters never to
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Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 26, 2003
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Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph and the Morse Code, was a dedicated Christian and a renowned university professor. History testifies that he always prayed for the Lord to give him more light and understanding as he conducted his experiments in the laboratory. He said, “When flattering
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Pentecostal
Contributed by James Buchanan on Mar 27, 2003
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Two old friends met one day after many years. One attended college, and
now was very successful. The other had not attended college and never had
much ambition.
The successful one said, "How has everything been going with you?"
"Well, one day I opened the Bible at random, and dropped my
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Chip Monck on Mar 1, 2005
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After dying, there were three friends, Robert, Sam and Tim who woke up outside of heaven. And St. Peter says that before any can enter, they have to pass through a muddy bog. All those who pass through this muddy bog sink in proportion to the amount of unconfessed sins they had when they died.
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Wesleyan
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