Contributed by Wayne Major on Apr 23, 2001
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Even our foundational beliefs in this country see the “pursuit of happiness” as a basic right of all individuals. Yet with all our pursuit, happiness seems to elude many of us for much of our lives. Nathaniel Hawthorne said, “Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond
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Methodist
Contributed by Robert Travis on Jun 27, 2001
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I dreamed one night that an angel was talking to me. The angel spoke words of comfort all through the night. I awoke the next morning to find a lump under my pillow. It was a small stuffed "angel" bear that had fallen off the headboard of the bed. When you press its paw it says, "I’m your guardian
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Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Oct 3, 2001
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John M. Moore, the hymn writer captured this truth when he wrote…
Why did they nail Him to Calvary’s tree?
Why, tell me, why was He there?
Jesus the Helper, the Healer, the Friend—
Why, tell me, why was He there?
Then the songwriter answers the rhetorical question by saying…
All my iniquities on
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Oct 17, 2001
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“Dr. Garl Restored My Sight!”
There was this soft-spoken man who was a commuter on the Long Island Railroad—on the five o’clock local. Every evening, after the train had left the subway, he would begin a journey through the car from front to back. At each seat he would stop and say, “Excuse me.
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 6, 2002
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CHAIN LETTER FOR PARENTS
It reads: "Dear Friend: This chain letter is meant to bring relief and happiness to you. Unlike other chain letters, this one does not cost money. Simply send a copy of this letter to six other parents who are tired of their teenagers. Then bundle your teenager up and send
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Contributed by David Swanger on Mar 15, 2003
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A young lady came to visit her preacher and explained that her boy friend was pressuring her to have sex. She explained that both were Chrsitians and she was getting to the point that she did not know what to do. Her preacher offered the following advise: "The next time that you feel pressured,
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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Video Illustration: Ghost – Toward the end of the movie Sam the departed soul battles his friend who is trying to kill his wife. The man ends up killing himself in the battle and discovers he has made a wrong choice and he is hauled away into torment and darkness by demonic spirits. Sam tells his
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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John Stott, wrote about tolerance and made a very key distinction between legal, social and intellectual tolerance or acceptance. About legal tolerance he wrote, “fighting for the equal rights before the law of all ethnic and religious minorities. Christians should be in the forefront of this
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Jan 14, 2004
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A new homeowner’s riding lawn mower had broken down, and he had been working fruitlessly for two hours trying to get it back together.
Suddenly, one of his neighbors appeared with a handful of tools.
“Can I give some help?” he asked.
In twenty minutes he had the mower functioning
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jul 19, 2004
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A Muslim in Africa became a Christian, and some friends asked him, “Why have you done such a thing?” He answered, “Well, it’s like this: Suppose you were going down the road and suddenly the road forked in two directions. You didn’t know which way to go; and there at the fork were two men - one
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Jeremy Houck on Mar 20, 2005
At Sagamore Hill, after an evening of talk, Roosevelt and a friend would go out on the lawn and search the skies for a certain spot of star-like light near the lower left-hand comer of the Great Square of Pegasus. Then Roosevelt would recite:
"That is the Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda. It is as
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 14, 2005
o we try to find meaning by comparing ourselves to others:
Mrs. Moskowitz was trying to describe to the interior decorator exactly how
she wanted her house done.
She said, "I leave the art and design entirely to you. I ask only that whatever you do, it be spectacular. I want it done in such a
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by David Smith on Apr 21, 2005
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don’t think that there is any better answer to that question than the one given by the great painter Renoir. In old age the great French painter, suffered from arthritis, which twisted and cramped his hand. Henri Matise, his artist friend, watched sadly while Renoir, grasping a brush with only his
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Dec 5, 2005
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This past week marked the 50th anniversary of the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white man. In a 1996 interview she said “she was tired of it all.” My friend, 1 person, a seamstress from Alabama, decided it was time for a change and through her action and
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Baptist
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Adam Diebert in his sermon, Rekindle the Desire, writes, "Friends, make no mistake about it: it doesn’t matter what you are doing, or what evil you are resisting, or what false doctrine you’re rejecting, or how many souls you are bringing into the kingdom; if your love relationship with Jesus is
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 22, 2006
At the end of Charles Dickens’ book “A Christmas Carol”, Scrooge has realised the error of his stingy, miserly ways. Scrooge gets converted!
At the end of the book Dickens wrote this: “Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he became
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