Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 21, 2003
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Picture this: The nation enters WW2, and a son receives notification that he has been drafted into the armed forces. The son ships out, leaving his loving parents behind. He also leaves behind his most prized possession, a 1930 Ford Model A coupe. Will the father of this lad will simply allow that
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Baptist
Contributed by George Rennau on Nov 23, 2003
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The turkey shot out of the oven
and rocketed into the air,
it knocked every plate off the table
and partly demolished a chair.
It ricocheted into a corner and
burst with a deafening boom,
then splattered all over the kitchen,
completely obscuring the room.
It stuck to the walls and the
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Jeff Simms on Sep 29, 2003
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I heard a story about a family whose twenty year old son had become rebellious. He spent his nights wasting away with drinking and parties, and
he constantly spurred his parents love. One night in a drunken stupor he appeared at his parent’s home, stumbled through the door and passed out
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Baptist
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Aug 11, 2004
Bruce Larson tells of a man who before he became a Christian had a terrible time with profanity. After his conversion, one day at work, he got angry and let out a cuss word. He immediately went off by himself and prayed, "Oh Lord, please forgive me.. I just swore, I am so sorry." Then about an hour
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Christian Church
Contributed by Jeremy Houck on Feb 26, 2005
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A little league baseball coach was talking with one of his players. The coach asked the boy, "Do you know what cooperation is? What it means to be a team?" The little boy nodded.
"Good," the coach said. "Do you understand that what really matters is that when we win, we win as a team and if we
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Apr 12, 2005
We’ve all had the experience of mishearing what has been said to us. Sometimes what we think we heard sounds out of place and inappropriate to the moment, so we ask the speaker to repeat what they said.
Sometimes we misunderstand simply because the person we’re hearing is coming from a
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Orthodox
Contributed by Douglas Duvall on Nov 13, 2006
Some of the world’s unhappiest people are Christians. A man once described today’s Christians in this manner.
= “Some Christians are too Christian to enjoy sinning but too sinful to enjoy their Christianity.”
= “Some Christians have enough religion to keep them out of the bar on Saturday night, but
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 21, 2007
The Shepherd Psalm does speak against anxiety, worry, and fear. It calls for trust in God. Here’s an example of the wrong kind of faith.
Are you familiar with the Broom Hilda comic strip? Anybody ever seen it?
For an illustration of mindless faith I like the conversation that takes place between
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 23, 2009
Before Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Archbishop Desmond Tutu stood in front of the South African Embassy in Washington D.C. one afternoon and said, “Those of you inside, are you listening? Do you hear me? You have already been defeated. Do you understand that? You have already lost and
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Illustration:
While I was helping to clean the church, I encountered a 12 year-old boy who was working out his court sentence for theft by doing community service. He asked me what bad thing I had done to be working there. “Why son, I didn’t do anything wrong. I’m just helping out the church. What
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
I also remembered a man who wrongly jailed for raping a woman; an incident that never occurred. The woman had lied about the incident. She had concocted it and unfortunately she was believed by the jury and the judge. No DNA evidence was collected and inspite of the man protesting his innocence, he
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
BELIEVING THE ANCIENT RECORD
On January 6, 1822, Heinrich Schliemann was born. He would one day achieve world renown and great wealth. When Heinrich Schliemann was seven years old, a picture of ancient Troy in flames captured his imagination. Contrary to what many people believed, Heinrich argued
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Brethren
Contributed by Dusan Tillinger on Mar 30, 2012
FOLLOWING THE MASSES
A few years ago I was walking down Prague's Wenceslaus Square when I coincidently, without realizing it, found myself in the middle of a protest. It was so easy to blend with them, to get into their middle and march with them, but once I tried to leave that mob, step out and
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Some years ago, on New Year’s Day during the Tournament of Roses Parade, a beautiful float sputtered and quit. It was out of gas. The entire parade was stalled until someone could find a gas can and get this giant, flower-covered float moving again. The ironic thing was this float represented the
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