Contributed by Richard Francis on Jun 23, 2007
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Their prayers were answered, the room shock for starters that would liven up most prayer meetings! Prayer will open the door...THEY WERE ASTONISHED. ACTS 12:16Peter had been arrested and was locked up in jail for the next few days before being executed. Sixteen soldiers were assigned to guard him.
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Oct 4, 2002
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· I’m a pastor, and theologically, I am not paid for the work I do, I am paid so that I may be free to devote myself to the ministry. It makes a difference.
· My church does not pay me to preach the Gospel. I do that freely.
· My church does not pay me to visit someone in the hospital. I do that
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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A man dies and goes to heaven. Of course, St. Peter meets him at the pearly gates. St. Peter says, "Here’s how it works. You need 100 points to make it into heaven. You tell me all the good things you’ve done, and I give you a certain number of points for each item, depending on how good it was.
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An ethics professor at Princeton Seminary asked for volunteers for an extra assignment. Fifteen students showed up. He divided the group of fifteen into three groups of five each. He instructed the first group of five to proceed immediately across the campus to a certain spot; if they didn’t get
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Contributed by Tim Adams on Dec 1, 2009
A parable is told of a community of ducks waddling off to duck church one Sunday to hear their duck preacher. After they waddled into the duck sanctuary, the service began and the duck preacher spoke eloquently of how God had given the ducks wings with which to fly. He pounded the pulpit with his
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Contributed by C. Philip Green on Sep 23, 2010
In the story of Pollyanna, there is a woman who runs the town. She’s not the mayor and doesn’t even sit on the city council. It’s just that she has inherited a tremendous amount of money from her father, and she has a controlling interest in all the major businesses in town. As a result, no one
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Jun 24, 2025
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Proverbs 17:22, A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
The Fixer-Preacher
Helping the church with Pastor Appreciation Day
I was recently invited to preach for the Sunday morning service.
Ice Breaker: For an introduction, I stated the following:
This is
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Contributed by Dana Chau on May 14, 2003
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Someone tells about a woman who for many years couldn’t sleep at night because she worried that her home would be burglarized. One night her husband heard a noise in the house, so he went downstairs to investigate. When he got there, he found a burglar. The husband said to the burglar, "Come
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Indonesia
Indonesia is a country that is almost 90% Muslim. When I was up in SUNDERLAND in February 1998, when I heard Suzette Hattingh speak. She told us how she held a crusade in Yapura on the island of Irian Jaya
and the miracles that she saw. The Indonesian army offered the use of 110 trucks
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