Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 10, 2005
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If My Body Were a Car
By Anonymous
I see newer models rolling down the street,
But my own car is growing older and it’s not very neat.
I’ve got bumps,
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Contributed by Bruce Landry on Mar 31, 2008
LOOSE CONNECTIONS
In a seminary missions class, Herbert Jackson told how, as a new missionary, he was assigned a car that would not start without a push. After pondering his problem, he devised a plan. He went to the school near his home, got permission to take some children out of class, and had
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Baptist
Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jul 17, 2008
The famous astronaut Buzz Aldrin faced a conflict after returning from the moon. He spiraled into a deep depression that ultimately resulted in him being hospitalized, medicated and put through a battery of psychiatric treatments. Ignorant of the depth of his own disability, once the medicine
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Mennonite
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I read an account about a storm that came as a surprise. "The storm came roaring in from the Atlantic, and it left the city of New York paralyzed. Ordinarily such a snow fall cause little inconvenience in that city. Snowplows are assembled and crews are at work even as the first flakes begin to
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United Methodist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
How do you maintain humility? Success can sometimes dazzle you in the achieving, but there’s usually someone around to help you keep perspective. TV anchorman Tom Brokaw has a story about that:
Brokaw was wandering through Bloomingdale’s in New York one day, shortly after he was promoted to
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2007
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The image of God in Human beings is like a sponge.
Sponges are useful creations. They are, we would say, Good.
But human beings after the fall are like a sponge that has been dipped in crude oil. The sponge is still there – it is still “good” but there is no where in the sponge that the oil is
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Contributed by Steve Greene on Nov 11, 2007
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A couple got married and the bride brought the bulk of the financial support into the marriage. And she knew it too. She always had a way of reminding her husband that she was the source of their financial security.
One day as they were driving along she was in an especially proud mood and she
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Nazarene
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Finney coined the following thoughts about revival from his lectures and book called "Revivals of Religion" (1835):
“A revival always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the church…In a true revival, Christians are always brought under such convictions, they see their sins in such light
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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 David Moore on Apr 14, 2010
Just last week two women were arrested at Liverpool airport for trying to board a plane with a dead body, they put the dead man into a wheelchair and put sunglasses on him, and were trying check in for a flight to Berlin on Saturday. But airport staff became suspicious, and the two were arrested on
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Baptist
Contributed by Andrew Chan on Jan 30, 2002
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TROUBLE HEARING
One evening while we were dining in a restaurant, a waiter strode through our section asking, "Does anyone here drive a red New Yorker?" We assumed its headlights had been left on.
"Yes!" an elderly gentleman in a neighbouring booth responded emphatically.
His wife reacted
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Evangelical Free
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 1, 2002
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FATHERLESS AMERICA
Tonight, 40% of all American children will go to sleep in a house in which their fathers do not live.
Before the age of eighteen, more than 50% of our children will spend a significant portion of their childhood living apart from their fathers.
A generation ago, an
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2002
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HOW MUCH WILL YOU SPEND?
With questions about the economy and the threat of war still looming, there is uncertainty in just about everything.
But it hasn’t seemed to deter Americans from celebrating Halloween.
According to the latest National Retail Federation Halloween survey, consumers say
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Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Mar 26, 2003
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My kids love keys. Car keys. House keys. A ring of old used keys that sit at the bottom of their toy box. The mystery for the child is what does this key fit? Even as I write this, our 4 year-old has grabbed my wife’s keys and is about to launch into a world of self-discovery as he moves through
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Nov 8, 2003
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A man passed by a cage at the zoo and noticed that in the cage was both a large lion and an active monkey.
He saw a zoo worker nearby and asked, ‘How does that work having both a lion and a monkey in the same cage?
It works ok for the most part. Do they ever not get along?
Every once in a
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