Text: [1Ki 13:1, KJV:] 1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. 2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born
                    
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                    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Apr 12, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In the  villages of Northern India a missionary was preaching in a bazaar. As he closed, a Muslim gentleman came up and said, "You must admit we have one thing you have not, and it is better than anything you have."
The missionary smiled and said, "I should be pleased to hear what it is."
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                    Contributed by Peter Loughman on Sep 29, 2009
                
                
                
                    KEYS TO THE KINGDOM?
At a former church, the day I started my job as an associate pastor I was given a set of keys to the church by one of the Trustees, Bill. Bill told me, "Peter, these are not all the keys to the church, we are only giving you four keys: One key to the church building, one key
                    
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                    Contributed by Michael Walther on May 25, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PRAYED INTO THE KINGDOM
Chuck Sackett did not grow up in a Christian home.  But he joined the Boy Scouts and wanted to complete the “God and Country” merit badge.  So he walked a few blocks to a small church for several weeks.  He filled out his papers, and did what he had to do get that badge. 
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 10, 2011
                
                
                
                    KINGDOM INFRASTRUCTURE
America’s economic health is partly dependent upon infrastructure: speedy roads, bridges, trains, electrical capacity, usable water, high speed internet, trained or skilled workers, etc.
Healthy churches are foundational to getting God’s work done: they support the
                    
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                    John Hess Yoder writes in Leadership magazine:
While serving as a missionary in Laos, I discovered an illustration of the kingdom of God. Before the colonialists imposed national boundaries, the kings of Laos and Vietnam reached an agreement on taxation in the border areas. Those who ate
                    
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                    Contributed by Stephen Belokur on Feb 12, 2019
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Try to imagine this. It is the year 1944 and Germany is at war with England.
Now suppose you have dual citizenship in both Germany and England and you are living in Germany. How will you be treated?
Conversely, suppose you have dual citizenship in both Germany and England and you are living in
                    
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                    Contributed by James Stewart on Nov 17, 2006
                
                
                
                    Up in the northern parts near the source of the Mississippi, it was a bitterly cold winter, and the Mississippi River had frozen over. There was a man who, rather than going to the bridge, decided he would walk across the frozen ice. He didn’t see anyone else out there. It looked so crusty and so
                    
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                    Contributed by Rusty Davidson on Feb 19, 2007
                
                
                
                    In the forests of northern Europe and Asia lives little animal called the ermine, known for his snow-white fur in winter. He instinctively protects his white coat against anything that would soil it. Fur hunters take advantage of this unusual trait of the ermine. They don’t set a snare to catch
                    
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                    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Feb 11, 2010
                
                
                
                    In  Haifa, the largest city in northern Israel, a 	policeman, who knew his Bible, got on the trail of a 	gang of smugglers. The smugglers had used an 	donkey-drawn caravan to escape from the police, 	but the policemen managed to capture some of the 	donkeys. The clever officer let the beasts of
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Sailors in the northern oceans have frequently observed icebergs traveling in one direction in spite of strong winds blowing in the opposite direction. The icebergs were moving against the winds, but how? 
The explanation is that the icebergs, with eight-ninths of their bulk under the water
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Apr 12, 2008
                
                
                
                    Northern Mississippi River freezes.  A man decided to walk across the ice instead of going down to the bridge.  He didn’t see anyone else out there.  It looked so crusty and thick, He said, “I believe I can walk across.  I won’t have to take the journey down to the bridge” and he began to walk
                    
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                    The  animal  kingdom  is fascinating to observe.  There  is fierce competition that exists within various species. For example, the  wild Dogs  of  Africa  are competitive for their mates.  In  a  documentary   one  pack  of  dogs  revealed  this  struggle   for dominance.  The  male dog had two
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 28, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    FINDING THE KINGDOM OF GOD
"In ’A Confession,’ Leo Tolstoy relates how the drive toward goodness that moved him as a boy was erased by his experiences in society.  Later in life, after overwhelming success as a writer, he nevertheless sank into a psychological paralysis brought on by his vision of
                    
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                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 23, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WORK IN GOD’S KINGDOM
John Stott tells a joke against his vocation: a clefgyman is the last person in the world to write about work.  For, as everybody knows, he has not done an honest day’s work in his life.  As the old saying goes, he is ‘six days invisible and one day incomprehensible!’
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 7, 2013
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE KINGDOM OF JESUS MARCHES ON
David Guzik: "The eternal King who rules over the souls of men is mightier than an external foe with powerful armies. Rome is gone, Napoleon is
                    
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