Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jul 19, 2003
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A preacher recently quit the ministry after more than 20 years of faithful, dedicated service and became a funeral director. When asked why he changed vocations, he said:
"I spent 10 years trying to straighten out John and he’s still an alcoholic. Then I spent three and one-half years trying to
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Why wait? Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you are
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Not quite twenty years ago, Wess Roberts published a book entitled Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun. He later confessed that he chose Attila as his title character because so little is known about the Hun leader. It was,
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Catholic
St. John of the Cross was right: "it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that
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Catholic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"When faced with a mountain, I will not quit I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath or simply stay and
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Oct 11, 2012
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Two excited women who were sitting together in the front pew of church with a fiery preacher. They were in the spirit and loving the message. They were shouting out and waving their hankies. They would use their paper fan to wave for Jesus and then to cool themselves off fearing they might just
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in a character which was a stranger
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Contributed by Dan Waite on Dec 20, 2005
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Once upon a time, a young minister tried to quit the ministry in absolute disgust. He was tired of the immaturity of the people and disillusioned by the politics and lack of spirituality of the leadership. He “reasoned” if the church, God’s ambassadors, was that badly corrupted then Christianity
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 21, 2006
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In Atlanta an 84 year old widow became quite bored with watching TV and reading the paper. She decided that she wanted to minister to others. She took out a small add in the paper which read, “Pianist will play hymns over the phone to shut-ins”. Within 3 days of issuing the add she had received
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A.W. Tozer said something quite insightful in terms of overall service:
Before the judgment seat of Christ my service will not be judged by how much I have done but by how much of me there is in it. No man gives at all until he has given all. No man gives anything
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