Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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President Abraham Lincoln called for a day of fasting and prayer.
His declaration for a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer begins with this thought.
And in so much as we know that, by his divine law, nations, like individuals, are subject to the punishments and chastisements in this
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 4, 2007
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A preacher one day was preaching on perfection and he asked the congregation, "Does anybody here claim to be or even claim to know another person beside Jesus Christ who is perfect?" To his surprise a man in the back stood up. The preacher said, "Sir, you can’t actually be standing up claiming to
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Christian Church
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 23, 2007
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It was a cold, winter day. A carcass, on an ice floe, floated slowly down the Niagra River. An Eagle, flying overhead, spied the easy prey below, and descended upon it. He began to eat. As he did, the water of the river began slowly pushing the flow toward the falls. But could not the eagle,
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Baptist
Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 25, 2007
Charlie Peace, a criminal in England, on the day he was being taken to his execution, listened to a minister reading from the Word. And when he found out he was reading about heaven and hell, he looked at the preacher and said, "Sir, if I believed what you and the church of God say, and even if
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Years ago, in the pioneer days of aviation, a pilot was making a flight around the world. After he had been gone for some two hours from his last landing field, he heard a noise in his plane which he recognized as the gnawing of a rat. He realized that while his plane had been on the ground a rat
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 3, 2008
In pioneer days on the prairie lands, fires would sometimes ignite in the tall, dry grass. They would literally find themselves about to be consumed by the flames. The winds would push the flames much faster than they could run. Often even the horses couldn’t outrun the flames. There was no time
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Church Of God
Contributed by Gregg Rustulka on Mar 29, 2008
Ill: One day John Wesley was walking with a troubled man who expressed his doubt as to the goodness of God. He said, "I do not know what I shall do with all this worry and trouble." At the same moment Wesley saw a cow looking over a stone wall. "Do you know," asked Wesley, "why that cow is
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Nazarene
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"The news on an ordinary day [is] a strange assembly that swoops down on ones life like cousins from Oslo one has never seen before, will never see again, and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Each days dawn is like a recurrence of the first act of the Creation as if again a decree had gone forth: Let there be light. And as the earth whirls on its orbit, there sweeps westward a band of brightness, fringed by the half-light of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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Try harder every day. There will surely be tomorrows that will bring you a lot of
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