Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 14, 2009
In our family, relatives begin preparing for Thanksgiving Dinner with a shopping list, perhaps a week in advance. They begin cooking perhaps two days before Thanksgiving, and certainly the evening before. But when we sit down at that table, we pray. Then we shovel the food in like there is no
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GRACE IN A CELL PHONE
I remember a grace moment one morning when I got a call from Susan on a cell phone. You see, Susan doesn’t own a cell phone, but on that day when she was driving to work and the tread on one of her tires disintegrated on the freeway, a gracious man with a cell phone pulled
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I used to have a principle named Mr. Duchovich. He was a monster of a man. Not in Character, but in stature. When in trouble in Jr. High school, the students feared for their lives. I remember one day having another student at the school bet me that I couldn’t kick a clock that was 7.5 feet
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 29, 2001
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B. There is a story about four preachers discussing the merits of the various translations of the Bible. One liked the King James Version best because of its simple, beautiful English. Another liked the American Revised Version best because it was closer to the original Hebrew and Greek. Still
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 4, 2001
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It had been years since I had seen a dentist so I meekly decided to inquire of the dentist in the building next to my apartment. From the moment I walked in, I sensed there was something different. As I was filling out the paperwork, I began confessing my lack of dental care. I finally blurted
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 17, 2002
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I am a very nervous flyer.
During a trip from California to Indiana, it didn’t help that my connecting flight from Denver was delayed twice because of mechanical problems.
Then, after we were aloft, I noticed the lights began flickering.
I mentioned this to a flight attendant.
"I’ll take care
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Mar 19, 2003
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[Long-Winded Driving]
A pastor and his wife were driving to visit Grandma and Grandpa for Christmas.
Their daughter asked the inevitable question, “Are we almost there?”
The father said, “No, we are still 150 miles away.”
She asked, “Well, how long is that?”
“Well, honey, it’s about three more
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An ingenious teenager, tired of reading bedtime stories to his little sister, decided to record several of her favorite stories on tape. He told her, "Now you can hear your stories anytime you want. Isn’t that great?" She looked at the machine for a moment and then replied, "No. It hasn’t got a
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Contributed by Richard Burkey on May 19, 2005
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Author and pastor Calvin Miller says he thinks the most vibrant missionaries he has met are medical doctors serving in lonely outposts of the Arab world. These physicians and nurses are aware that in winning a Muslim to Christ, they condemn their converts to ostracism and persecution—even
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over. God is going to invade, all right; but what is the good of saying you are on His side then, when you see the whole natural universe melting away like a dream and something else comes crashing in? This time it will be God without disguise;
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 20, 2005
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In addition to Mt. Rushmore, one of Gutzin Borglum’s great works as a sculptor is the head of Lincoln in the Capitol at Washington. He cut it from a large, square block of stone in his studio. One day, when the face of Lincoln was just becoming recognizable out of the stone, a young girl was
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Contributed by Scott Epperson on Oct 29, 2006
When I was young in Christ I was struggling with some temptations, and no one really could understand. Only God and me could. So in attempt to remind my self what I needed to do in the midst of temptation, while in a sober mind unclouded by temptation I wrote myself a letter something to the affect
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 12, 2007
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‘A group of first graders decided that they were going to produce their very own Christmas program and so they produced their own updated nativity story.
All the major characters were there – Joseph, the shepherds, the wise men from afar… but where was Mary?
Shortly after the production began,
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Contributed by Mel Shepherd on Jul 2, 2007
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Some years ago, the cartoonist pictured Charlie Brown bringing out Snoopy’s dinner on Thanksgiving Day, but it was just his usual dog food in a bowl. So, Snoopy took one look at the dog food and said, “This isn’t fair. The rest of the world today is eating turkey with all the trimmings and all I
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