Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A young Colombian Girl received a new testament in her school. She read the new testament until one day her father caught her reading it…and told her not to read it any more because it was full of lies and fantasy…
But the girl kept on reading until one day her father came home unexpectedly found
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A want is something I would like to have, something I may wish or long for, something that I find desirable, but it is not something that I must absolutely have. I can live without having all my wants supplied, but all my needs must be met.
Some personal examples quickly come to my mind. I had
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Methodist
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Apr 1, 2008
When I first got sober, one of the most powerful blessings that I stumbled onto was making myself available. As many of you know, when I turned my life over to God, God relieved me of the obsession and compulsion to drink. And as I sought to simply do His will, there were several changes that I
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Church Of God
Contributed by Jordon Leblanc on Apr 5, 2008
Some years ago, two teenagers with a long history of crime and delinquency robbed a YMCA in New York City. On the way out they saw a young man at the telephone switchboard.
In their panic they assumed he was calling the police. They grabbed him and beat him savagely with brass knuckles and a steel
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Troy Borst on Apr 10, 2008
ILLUSTRATION… Choice Contemporary Stories & Illustrations For Preachers, Teachers, & Writers
Craig Brian Larson, Baker Books, p. 166.
Ruth Ryan, wife of Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan, had one moment she looked forward to in every one of her husband’s games. In Covering Home, she writes:
It
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ronnie Knight on May 9, 2008
John was born in 1917 in Brooklin, Massachusetts. He attended school at Harvard University. He was the author of two books. One was his thesis at Harvard, which was entitled Why England Slept. The other was Profiles in Courage, which won him a Pulitzer Price.
He was the Captain of a PT boat in
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Baptist
Contributed by Timothy Darling on May 29, 2008
I remember my older brother bringing my mom a flower. I’m sure it was a very pretty flower, but it had been picked from the flower bed of a lady that lived Joe’s route home from school. Very wisely, my mom did not accept the flower, but walked Joe back to the lady’s house and made him give it back
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Mennonite
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THE SIMPLE STORY
Last week, I met in the worship center with the four-year-olds from the school and we talked about what pastors do. After I was done showing them my robe and stoles and my private Communion kit and talking about the different places a pastor stands in church to talk about Jesus, I
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Lutheran
TEMPLE OF GREED
Stanford Kurland ran Countrywide Mortgage through 2006. Then after the mortgage crisis began (for which Kurland may be partially responsible) he opened up PennyMac, a company that says they will help bail out the mortgage industry by buying the troubled mortgages at a reduced rate
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United Methodist
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Mar 19, 2009
“O Let Him In!”
A picture of the Lord Jesus knocking at the door of a heart was taken one day by a parish visitor to a house where a father and mother lived with their small son.
Some impulse made the mother pin the picture up in their little kitchen and when the small boy came in from school, he
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Christian Church
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