Contributed by Todd Catteau on Dec 21, 2008
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He's Alive!
One church I read about put on a Christmas program that included a manger scene with their children. There was a little 5-year-old boy on the drama team, I think he was a shepherd that year. He was energetic to say the least! This little boy was a handful. During rehearsals he was all
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jan 8, 2009
I don’t know what will happen this year. I know that a lot of us are struggling in many ways especially financially. Food prices are going up. A loaf of bread at Wal-mart used to be around 80 cents a couple of years ago. Now it is over a dollar. 10 pounds of potatoes used to be 2 dollars or less.
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Feb 25, 2009
Two Irishmen, Pat and Mike, had narrowly escaped death on a sinking ship. They were floundering around in icy ocean waters on a couple of planks. Pat was addicted to the grossest profanity, so he thought he ought to repent of it, so the Lord would come to their rescue. Mike thought Pat’s theology
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 2, 2002
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My husband, Michael, and I were at a restaurant with his boss, a rather stern older man.
When Michael began a tale, which I was sure he had told before, I gave him a kick under the table.
There was no response, so I gave him another poke. Still the story went on.
Suddenly he stopped, grinned
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Dec 24, 2006
Story: “Our Father’s Home”
Two strangers, a small boy and an older man, were fishing from the banks of the Mississippi River.
As time passed they discovered that, although the fishing was rather poor, conversation was good.
And by the time the sun began to sink in the west they had talked of
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Christian Church
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Jan 28, 2007
Adrian Dieleman tells the story of one man’s transformation: “Oscar Cervantes is a dramatic example of the Spirit’s power to transform lives. As a child, Oscar began to get into trouble. Then as he got older, he was jailed 17 times for brutal crimes. Prison psychiatrists said he was beyond
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Methodist
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Holiness
My brothers and I collected Baseball cards as kids and we would play with them. How do you "play" with baseball cards? We would sort through them, divide them into teams, build our own allstar team, and sort out the duplicates for trading in school the next day. My brother was a BIG
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 3, 2008
If there is one emotion that I have been familiar with, it is anger. I lived with anger for most of my childhood and teenage years. It became quite comfortable and familiar so much as that most other responses such as disappointment and fear became masked by my anger.
Now what I am telling you
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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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Contributed by Rick Stacy on Mar 9, 2003
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The Village that lives by the Bible
by Clarence W. Hall
It was early in 1945 when, as a war correspondent on Okinawa, I first came upon Shimabuku, the strangest and most inspiring community I ever saw. Huddled beneath its groves of banyan and twisted pine trees, this remote village of some 1000
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Contributed by Bruce Emmert on Oct 9, 2006
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Have you seen the movie Antwone Fisher? It’s the true story of a young man abandoned at birth by his mother and then raised in abusive orphanages, foster homes, and reform schools. Denzel Washington adapted the story into a movie that was released a few years ago. After his 18th birthday, Antwone
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