Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 15, 2004
Before I go on to the third way to feed on the Word of God, let me just share with you the story of a young girl named Mary Jones, who in the late 1790's wanted more than anything to own a Bible.
Unfortunately, they were not as available as they are today, and they were very expensive. So she
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Wesleyan
Like John the Baptist, Charles Spurgeon, a Baptist minister, also preached fire and brimstone sermons. For that, he was greatly criticized in the newspapers. Articles appeared regularly disapproving of his methods, his motives, his mannerisms, and his messages. He was made to look like a villain
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Catholic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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Robert Louis Dabney was an outstanding Presbyterian theologian during the mid-19th century. He served as a minister, as a chaplain, as chief of staff to General Stonewall Jackson, and as a seminary professor. He also helped establish a seminary in Austin, Texas.
As he aged, Dabney began to worry
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Contributed by Bill Huffhine on Mar 25, 2006
Perhaps you’re thinking to yourself, “These sound like the descriptions of a true Christian. Can a person really look like this outwardly and still only be an “almost” Christian? John Wesley was born into a Christian family, the son of an Anglican minister. He was brought up not only respecting
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Scott Maze on Feb 15, 2007
On June 17, 2002 Federal authorities arrested a United States Forest Service employee for starting the largest fire in Colorado’s history.
Terry Barton was a 38-year-old woman and had worked every summer for the Forest Service for 18 or 19 years.
She had ventured into the forest to burn a letter
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Baptist
Contributed by David Rumley on Apr 7, 2007
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MELANIE (age 5) asked her Granny how old she was. Granny replied she was so old she didn’t remember any more. Melanie said, "If you don’t remember you must look in the back of your panties. Mine say five to six."
BRITTANY (age 4) had an earache and wanted a pain killer. She tried in vain to take
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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On September 3, 1939, Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse was traveling by train through Europe on the way to preach in Belfast, Ireland. Hitler was unleashing his fury. There were wars and rumors of more wars. Britain’s prime minister was ready to declare war. Everything was tense. What was next? Troops
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jul 19, 2007
Self-righteous service comes through human effort. True service comes from a relationship with the divine Other deep inside.
Self-righteous service is impressed with the “big deal.” True service finds it almost impossible to distinguish the small from the large service.
Self-righteous service
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Baptist
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Aug 10, 2008
"A Dream for God"
Many years ago a young man had a dream of telling the story of Jesus everywhere in the world. When he suggested taking that good news to people, an older man said, "Sit down, young man. If God wants to save the heathen, he will do it without your help or mine."
This young
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Christian Church
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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BEARING THE MARK
Joseph Damien was a nineteenth-century missionary who ministered to people with leprosy on the island of Molokai, Hawaii. Those suffering grew to love him and revered the sacrificial life he lived out before them.
One morning before Damien was to lead daily worship, he was
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 27, 2009
IS GOD IN RESIDENCE?
I once saw a poster of a valentine-shaped heart with a castle on top of it. There was a flag with a slogan, oversized and coming out of the top of the castle. The slogan read: "Joy is the banner flown from the heart when the King is in residence."
Well, stupid me, I didn’t
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Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
There were two brothers named John and Charles. They grew up in a religious home. They believed there was a God. They had religious training. One even became a minister.
But it was not until their 30’s or so, did they truly have their hearts, as one of them put it, ‘strangely warmed.’ That heart
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Church Of God
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Apr 10, 2012
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DEDICATION TO THE STAINES FAMILY
Randy Alcorn wrote a novel about persecution of Christians in China, entitled Safely Home. This is his dedication for the book. "TO GRAHAM STAINES, who left his home in Australia to serve lepers in India for thirty-four years. TO PHILIP STAINES (age ten) and
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 15, 2002
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She was crazy. Everyone knew it because she had the habit of talking to herself in public and it was known that she believed she even talked to Jesus - and was spoken back to. A new preacher came to town and, hearing of the crazy woman, thought that he might be able to make her face reality.
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Troy Borst on May 28, 2003
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What is the church?
Russ Blowers is a minister who is active in his local Indianapolis Rotary club. At club meetings each week a member gives a brief statement about his job. When it was his turn, Russ said: "I’m with a global enterprise. We have branches in every country in the world. We have
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