Contributed by Melvin Newland on Oct 10, 2001
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Tony Campolo tells of being invited to speak at a ladies meeting. There were 300 women there. Before he spoke the president of the organization read a letter from a missionary. It was a very moving letter.
In the letter the missionary expressed a need for $4,000 to take care of an
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Troy Mason on Apr 21, 2001
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7 year old Eric’s description of Heaven: “It’s a place where there is a lot of money lying around. You could just pick it up, play with it, and buy things. I think I’m going to buy a basketball,
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2002
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A 3-year-old boy found a quarter in the driveway as he and his family were leaving to go to church one morning. When they returned home, he pulled it out of his pocket and handed it to his mother. “You can have
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Contributed by James Botts on Sep 1, 2002
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POPULARITY CONTEST
Love is a very popular word in our society.
Amazon.com lists:
2,652 book titles regarding “Heaven,”
10,304 for “Money,”
16,765 for “Sex,”
18,818 for “God,” and
30,066 for “Love.”
Love is one of the
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Baptist
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jul 13, 2010
RELATIONSHIPS AND CELL PHONES
Desperate people will do almost anything. People are desperate for relationships and will pay a lot of money to have it. The cost of a T-Mobile HTC HD2 cell phone is $2,600 while the
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Erik Stadler on Dec 21, 2007
When I was in sixth grade, my teacher had us all write essays on what we would do with a million dollars. We shared them in class and the teacher said “Now listen to how you say you are going to use the
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Lutheran
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 28, 2008
A well dressed woman was on an African Safari that stopped in a leper hospital. The air was humid and sticky. Flies buzzed in frenzy. The woman noticed a nurse bending toward a patient, attending a leper’s pus-filled sores. The woman said, “I wouldn’t
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Bill Johnson on May 13, 2004
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There are churches that have parking problems and others that don’t. Some churches have kids running around making a lot of noise, and some churches tend to be very quiet. Some churches usually have more expenses than money, and then there are other’s who don’t need to spend much money because not
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Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jun 6, 2005
Shortly after the Dallas Theological Seminary was founded in 1924, it almost had to close. The creditors were about to foreclose at noon on a certain day. Pres. Lewis S. Chafer met with his faculty at the office, praying fervently that God would provide. Present was Dr. Harry Ironside who prayed in
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
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The old mountaineer had lived a full but not exactly saintly life and now was on his deathbed. He summoned his weeping wife. “Sara,” he said, “go to the fireplace and take out the third stone from the top.”
She did as instructed.
“Reach in there,” said her husband, “and bring out what you find.”
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
GOOD GUYS, BUT NOT GOD'S GUYS
It is time for the NFL draft, and NFL teams are about to spend millions of dollars on unknown commodities called college players. Some of them pan out and many don’t. In order to narrow the risk with so much money at stake, they are now looking at the character of
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Curtis Emerson on Dec 18, 2009
Rudyard Kipling’s writings not only made him famous but also brought him a fortune. A newspaper reporter came up to him once and said, "Mr. Kipling, I just read that somebody calculated that the money you make from your writings amounts to over one hundred dollars a word.” He reached into his
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Lutheran
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Oct 20, 2010
On 10th May 2003, through the post I received six letters concerning my claim for Tax Credits - much to my annoyance, since I made my application quite some time before. Back in 2003 the Tax Credit Office were singled out for a lot of criticism, and every day there seemed to be a story of a
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