The new priest offered his first sermon to his congregation. As the people left, many stopped and complimented him on his preaching. He thanked them, went through the week and, the next Sunday, noticed a larger congregation. Some of the parishioners looked at each other during the sermon
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Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Apr 4, 2009
There’s an old story about a man who dreamed that an angel escorted him to church one Sunday. There he saw a keyboard musician playing vigorously, singers singing, and other musicians playing with gusto. But the man heard no sound. The congregation was also singing – well, most of them, but again
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Story: Rebecca Adlington, the swimming double Olympic gold medallist was asked what her training schedule was?
Her reply was:
My typical day will see me in the pool at 6am for a two hour training session, I then go home for something to eat and then I do another two hours in the late afternoon.
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
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A young lady was sunbathing on the beach when a little boy in his swimming trunks, carrying a towel, came up to her and asked her, "Do you believe in God?"
She was surprised by the question but she replied, "Why, yes, I do."
Then he asked her: "Do you go to church every Sunday?"
Again, her
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Aug 22, 2023
As I looked through the old photo album,
my eyes fixed upon
a picture of Mom in her blue Sunday dress
wearing a soiled, yellow apron.
I smiled as, in my mind, I returned.
It seemed like just yesterday,
For I had left on it my small handprints—
From playing in Carolina red clay.
Mom had called
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 8, 2007
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Illustration: A Better Plan
When in college Robert J , Morgan came across a poem written by a teenage girl looking for a husband. It was written as a prayer, and this is what she said:
Dear God, I pray all unafraid / As girls are wont to be
I do not want a handsome man / But make him, Lord, like
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Contributed by Paul Barreca on Dec 31, 2011
One man who learned to experience the peace of God was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. For the famous American poet and author, life was well. After the death of his first wife, he met Francis Appleton. He courted her for seven years! She finally said yes! Longfellow experienced fame and success.
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Contributed by Kent Lenard on May 30, 2004
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That’s why Paul tells us to rejoice IN the Lord. He is cautioning us about what we fixate on in life. Because what the we focus on will determine what our life is like.
There is a story about a man had fixation for the power of ‘CRAZY GLUE’:
While visiting the Eagle’s Rock African Safari Zoo
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Moms on the go for the Lord strengthen their children¡¦s individual personalities.They allow their children to soar into what God designed them to be.
This poem expresses this act well: Before I was myself, you made me, me by Nicholas Gordon:
Before I was myself you made me, me
With love and
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Dec 19, 2003
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J. B. Phillips, in his book, “Your God Is Too Small”, responds to an old children’s poem that says,
“Christian children all must be
Mild, obedient, good as He.”
He writes:
“This word ‘mild’ is apparently deliberately used to describe a man who did not hesitate to challenge and expose the
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Contributed by Greg Warren on Apr 19, 2001
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LETTERS TO GOD FROM CHILDREN
Dear God, Did you mean for the giraffe too look like that or was it an accident? - Norma
Dear God, Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don’t you just keep the ones you have now? - Jane
Dear God, Who draws the lines around the
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 4, 2002
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“Moody’s Barroom Meeting”
D.L. Moody once entered a tavern in order to ask the bartender if his two little girls might attend his Sunday School. He was told that an atheist club met there every Thursday night and the owner of the bar was in no mood to offend them. Moody looked into the face of
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Contributed by Scott Malone on Mar 1, 2005
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Jim Cymbala, in his book “Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire”, details the miraculous growth of the Brooklyn Tabernacle because of its dedication to prayer. In 1972 he was asked to pastor part-time a small church in a shabby two-story building on Atlantic Avenue in New York City. The location was bad. The
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