Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jun 11, 2011
NOT MUCH OF A MAN...?
A weary truck driver who pulled his rig into an all-night truck stop late one summer evening in Broken Bow, NE. He was tired and hungry. The waitress had just served him when three tough looking, leather-jacketed bikers of the Hell's Angels type decided to give him a hard
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 7, 2011
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YOU ARE NOT IN CHARGE
Tom Boyd tells about a woman who was a member of a church he pastored in Tennessee. She was flamboyant and eccentric but Boyd was impressed with her "intense commitment to the faith. She did not have a pietistic bone in her body, but her devotion was nonetheless clear and
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AFRAID
I was all alone. I lived with four other guys in a huge, old house just off the campus of Baylor University, but I was the only one home. I must have been twenty-one or twenty-two – a grown man, practically a college graduate – but I was afraid. There was usually a surplus of noise in the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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In his book, "The Treasure Principle" Randy Alcorn says that the greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that Earth is our home. He tells the following story.
Suppose your home is in France and you're visiting America for three months, living in a hotel. You're told that you
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 11, 2025
An Engineer, a physicist, an economist and a Planner were being interviewed for a position as chief executive officer of a large Local Authority. The Engineer was interviewed first, and was asked a long list of questions, ending with: "How much is two plus two?" The Engineer excused
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Independent/Bible
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NO JACKET REQUIRED
I shook my head in disbelief. This couldn’t be the right place. After all, I couldn’t possibly be welcome here. I had been given an invitation several times, by several different people, and had finally decided to see what this place was all about. But, this just couldn’t be
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Nov 13, 2001
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The pickle jar as far back as I can remember sat on the floor beside the dresser in my parents’ bedroom. When he got ready for bed, Dad would empty his pockets and toss his coins into the jar.
As a small boy I was always fascinated at the sounds the coins made as they were dropped into the jar.
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Lutheran
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I wrote this at the end of 2014
Fourteen years from the Millennium seemed a long time and now we are into a new year – again!!
I have spent much of last week preparing to lead a pilgrimage to Israel – a new experience for me.
And with the new it is good to recall the old.
Our Gospel reading is
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
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THIEF GETS THE BIRD
A man in Ontario, Canada returned home one evening to find his more valuable and easily-fenced goodies stacked neatly beside the door. When the homeowner saw the living room was also spattered with blood, he feared the worst for his beloved house pet, a large African parrot. The
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Contributed by Todd Stiles on Feb 1, 2007
I was a young youth pastor in Augusta, GA, doing my best to train a group of kids to reach out to others. Granted – some of my ideas met resistance (imagine that!), and the culture there turned out to be very different than what was actually communicated to me at the beginning. However, I figured
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