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BLENDING IN
A young police officer was taking his final exam for the police academy and he read the following question in the exam paper:
"You are on patrol in the outer city when an explosion occurs in a gas main in a nearby street.
On investigation you find that a large hole has been blown
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Anglican
Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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In his autobiography, Just As I Am, Graham doesn’t hide his faults or gloss over his mistakes. For instance, there was the time Ruth, his wife, pleaded with him to cancel his speaking engagement in Mobile, Alabama and stay home with her because she was having labor pains. Graham told her she wasn’t
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2001
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Why go to Church?
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. “I’ve gone for 30 years now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can’t remember a
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 9, 2001
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ILL. Max Lucado, in his book, "Applause from Heaven," tells about flying home after having been gone for more than a week of speaking engagements.
He says, "I know that my wife & our two daughters will be waiting at the airport for me. And as I walk down the long corridor & round the bend & into
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Christian/Church Of Christ
On March 15 at the Lewis Creek Church (Indiana South), Pastor Dave Gates preached a sermon on being "born again."
On the way out the door Pastor Dave greeted Bucky, an 80-year-old man that had been attending his church. Pastor Dave said to him, "Will I see you in heaven, Bucky?" After pausing for
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 13, 2010
LOSING JESUS
For about 14 years, I have been teaching AWANA. I teach each of our three division, beginning with a puppet skit and then a flannel graph lesson with felt figures. I taught the Christmas Story to the Sparks, K-2nd grade, then I moved everything into the auditorium to teach the Flames
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Independent/Bible
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
A number of years ago, a young police officer was taking his final exam for the police academy when he came upon the following question:
"You are on patrol in the outer city when an explosion occurs in a gas main in a nearby street. On investigation you find that a large hole
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Anglican
I heard the story about a little boy - who was sitting on the front steps of his house - with his face buried in his hands.
As he was sitting there his father arrived came home. He asked the little boy what was wrong.
The little boy looked up and
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Anglican
Contributed by Kevin Taylor on Oct 28, 2001
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Professor H.W. Jurgen, a West German sociologist, claims that married couples chat with one another 70 minutes a day in the first year of their marriage. This drops to 30 minutes a day in the second year and then only to 15 minutes a day in the 4th. His research shows that by the eighth year,
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I thought for days that my new electric shaver had gone unserviceable. Then at the weekend my wife was cleaning the washroom and discovered I had mistakenly plugged the charger and not the shaver. Unplugged, the electrical appliance has no power and therefore a connection to a power source is not
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Methodist
Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Nov 15, 2007
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A certain man, well-known for his constant complaining, inherited a large sum of money. When he got it, he complained about how it was not much as he thought it should be. He bought a farm and asked his wife what she thought he
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Baptist
Contributed by Daniel Harman on Mar 28, 2008
Within months Fred Whiteman went through more pain than most of us do in a life time. Cancer claimed his best friend. Then his mum died and his wife was killed. Next, he underwent a heart transplant. And while he was still recovering he had to
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
Last Sunday as we were driving to church Our teenage son leaned over from the back seat gave his mother a kiss on the cheek and said, “Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!”
My wife objected, “But it’s not Mother’s Day today – that’s
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Mennonite
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Mar 20, 2009
REAL COMFORT
Queen Victoria heard that the wife of a labourer had lost her baby. Having suffered deep sorrow herself, she wanted to express her sympathy. She called on the bereaved mother and spent time with her. Later neighbours asked what the queen said. "Nothing,"
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Anglican
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jul 6, 2010
A man purchased a statue of Christ and placed it on his desk in his den. A few days later his wife moved the statue to a table in the living room. Their five-year-old daughter, noticing the change of location, asked “Where are you going to put God?” Now
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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