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"God’s Grace Shown To Us"
The Enemy of the world, Satan, was on the side of life’s road with a very large cage. The man coming towards him noticed that it was crammed full of people of every kind, young, old, from every race and nation."
Where did you get these people?" the man asked. "Oh,
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jul 3, 2008
DUMB CROOKS
1.) A Circle-K convenience store was patronized by man requesting change for a twenty dollar bill. As soon as the register drawer was opened, the man pulled a gun and demanded it contents. He fled with all dollars of it, but left his original twenty lying on the counter.
2.) A guy
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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PRAYER FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
In Point Man, Steve Farrar tells the story of George McCluskey. When McCluskey married and started a family, he decided to invest one hour a day in prayer, because he wanted his kids to follow Christ. After a time, he expanded his prayers to include his grandchildren
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Contributed by Steve Ely on Oct 1, 2008
Encourage Someone Today
Dante Bartiel Rossetti, the famous 19th-century poet and artist, was once approached by an elderly man. The old fellow had some sketches and drawings that he wanted Rossetti to look at and tell him if they were any good, or if they, at least, showed potential
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Pentecostal
Sir Earnest Shackleton’s epic tale of survival and courage began with dreams of being the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. En route, the Endurance became beset in the ice deep within the Weddell Sea and drifted with the pack for ten months before finally being crushed and sunk in
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Baptist
Contributed by Ray Ellis on Jan 27, 2004
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Maxie Dunnam, President of Asbury Theological Seminary in his book, “This is Christianity” tells a remarkable story about Dr. Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon. A man had been injured in a fire while attempting to save his parents from a burning house. He couldn’t get to them. They perished. His
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Free Methodist
Contributed by David Selleck on Oct 26, 2006
Messy Spirituality, Mike Yaconelli
Mike tells of sitting in a hotel ballroom with fifteen hundred college students participating in a weekend faith conference. On the last day of the conference, with school starting the following Monday, the students made it clear they wanted to prolong the
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The sower
The story is told of a young man who had just started his new job in the produce department of a grocery store, when a woman came up to him asking to buy a half head of lettuce.
As politely as he could, the young man said that “In this store, we don’t sell half heads of lettuce, we
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Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 24, 2008
One time I was leading a retreat for single, middle-age people, that is people in their 40s and 50s. When I looked on the roster, there was a man I knew was 75 if he were a day, but he had signed up so I didn’t question his age. He was a regular at the church and had gone on other retreats. I
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¿De dónde viene el carácter? ¿Cómo llega a nosotros?
Recuerde la ilustración del hombre que comprando pollo rostizado, se dio cuenta que en vez del bote de pollo le dieron el bote de las ganancias del día. Su novia se quedó sorprendida cuando el decidió regresar el
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Salvation Army
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INTRODUCTION
Story: He Knew the Shepherd
1. Three men gave a presentation from the 23rd Psalms.
It went like this,
a. The first man read from the Psalms with superb diction, clarity, and reverence. The audience stood up and gave him a standing ovation.
b. The second man quoted the entire Psalms
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Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 31, 2023
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Where your ability ... and the worlds need intersect... is where you are most needed ......and can and will be ... where you will do the most good.
The author Loren Eisely ... would go to the ocean ...to do his writing.
He had a habit ... of walking on the beach ... before he began ...his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 7, 2001
But the most remarkable thing is this. Whenever you find a man who does not believe in a real right and Wrong, you will find this same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining
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