Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
Air Conditioner.
First house we owned was quite old and a lot of things didn’t work quite right.
Our air conditioner broke every year.
It would cool down the house then, become a heater heat it up, then cool it down.
Not how an air conditioner should work.
First year called the company who had
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
A BOX OF KISSES
Some time ago, a father punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight, and he became angry when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree.
Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next
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Independent/Bible
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Story: Some years ago when Johnny Carson was the host of the well known American chat show: The Tonight Show he interviewed an eight year old boy.
The boy was asked to appear because he had
rescued two friends in a coalmine outside his hometown in West Virginia.
As Carson questioned the boy, it
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Anglican
Contributed by Scott Maze on Feb 15, 2007
On June 17, 2002 Federal authorities arrested a United States Forest Service employee for starting the largest fire in Colorado’s history.
Terry Barton was a 38-year-old woman and had worked every summer for the Forest Service for 18 or 19 years.
She had ventured into the forest to burn a letter
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Baptist
Contributed by Robert Hoos on Apr 21, 2007
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The Finality of Death
When I was just around the age of five or six years old I attended my first funeral. They have since become something that I am used to, but this first time was something that was very memorable for me.
I remember standing there, barely able to see into the coffin, and
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bob Soulliere on May 5, 2007
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London businessman Lindsay Clegg told the story of a warehouse property he was selling. The building had been empty for months and needed repairs. Vandals had damaged the doors, smashed the windows, and strewn trash all over the place. As he showed a prospective buyer the property, he took pains to
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The story is told of a college professor who visited the Fiji Islands. Being agnostic, he critically remarked to an elderly chief, "You’re a great leader, but it’s a pity you’ve been taken in by those foreign missionaries. They only want to get rich through you.
"No one believes the Bible anymore.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Every year in Alaska, a 1000-mile dogsled race, a run for prize money and prestige, commemorates an original "race" run to save lives. Back in January of 1926, six-year-old Richard Stanley showed symptoms of diphtheria, signaling the possibility of an outbreak in the small town of Nome. When the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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London businessman Lindsay Clegg told the story of a warehouse property he was selling. The building had been empty for months and needed repairs. Vandals had damaged the doors, smashed the windows, and strewn trash all over the place. As he showed a prospective buyer the property, he took pains to
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Contributed by Donny Granberry on Jun 23, 2007
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*Story of Michael Dell*
In 1983 a young man named Michael Dell graduated from High School. He had a passion for computers and would take them apart and rebuild them. He discovered that he could build them for one forth of the price even adding more memory, bigger monitors, and faster modems, he
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 25, 2007
My Saint Bernard dog Happy is such a baby! Besides being deathly afraid of Sebastian’s new ball, she is also afraid of the back stair case in the parsonage! For those of you may not have every noticed the back stair case, it is attached to kitchen and brings you up to the back end of the hallways
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Christian Church
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 12, 2007
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The Ermine
In the forests of northern Europe and Asia lives a little animal called the ermine, known for his snow-white fur. He instinctively protects his white coat against anything that would soil it. His fur is so fine; nothing is more beautiful on the fur markets of the world. In some countries
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Baptist
Contributed by Curtis Rowe on Dec 11, 2007
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Many cry, “Peace, peace when there is no peace.”
Ill. Old First Church in the Court Square of Springfield is the oldest Church in the City. But, they have long ago departed from the Gospel and the Prince of Peace. For the last several year they have held a vigil to defend a woman’s right to choose
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
How Long, O Lord?
Overview of Revelation—Revelation 1:1-8
A woman went to the doctor’s office, where she was seen by one of the new doctors, but after about 4 minutes in the examination room, she burst out, screaming as she ran down the hall. An older doctor stopped her and asked what the problem
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 15, 2007
The Rev. Frank Bartleman was a leader in the 1907 visitation of the Holy Spirit on Azusa Street in L.A. He said, "We have too much Chinese Joss, and Dance Hall Jazz music. Charles G. Finney, the mighty evangelist, discouraged even too much good singing. It kills conviction. We spend too much
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Pentecostal
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Do you remember the symbolism behind Water Baptism?
The 2nd step of submersion in Water Baptism deals with a circumcision of the heart according to Francis Anfuso’s booklet Water Baptism he states on page 12:
a. In the Old Testament, God established circumcision to be an outward work which
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Bill Butsko on May 9, 2009
LOVE NEVER FAILS
A mother kept a candle burning in the window every night for ten years. One night, very late, a poor wretched woman came in from the street. The aged mother said to her, "Sit down by the fire."
The stranger asked, "Why do you keep the light in the window?" The old mother
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