Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 15, 2010
There was a logging community who felt the need of divine worship, so they built a church and called a young preacher. He was alarmed to discover dishonesty among the loggers. People there and those upstream would float their logs in the river down to the mill. Each logger would take a metal die
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 17, 2009
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THE STEWARDSHIP OF TIME
John Taylor recently invented a clock called the chronophage. Literally it means "time eater." It was donated to Corpus Christi College at Cambridge. It combines the Greek word for time, "chronos," and the word "phageo," meaning "to eat". A monster-looking grasshopper with
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Feb 2, 2013
THE ORANGE BLESSING
In the late 1800’s while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean-liner, the English Baptist pastor and evangelist F.B. Meyer was asked to preach to the first class passengers. At the captain's request he spoke on "Answered Prayer."
An agnostic who was present at the service was
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Brethren
Contributed by Richard Jones on Nov 1, 2000
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It’s like the Lutheran pastor who always started each service with "The Lord be with you." The people would respond, "and also with you.”
But, one Sunday the PA system wasn’t working so the first thing he said was "There’s
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2002
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A WASTE OF LIFE
You can’t waste a life hating people, because all they do is live their life, laughing, doing more evil."
ALPHA ROBERTSON,whose daughter was one of four girls killed in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church in
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„X Whereas the English word ¡§hope¡¦ may have an element of uncertainty in it, the Greek words in the New Testament always speak of a sure expectation of some good outcome or positive result. (Frederick R. Howe, TH.D. ¡V What¡¦s in a
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Charismatic
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Story: According to an ancient Russian Orthodox tradition, the day before Easter was devoted to telling jokes.
Priests would join the people in telling their best jokes to one another. (presumably “clean” jokes!!)
The reason was to reflect the joke God pulled on the devil in the
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Anglican
Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 28, 2023
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A little boy and girl were singing their favorite Christmas carol in church the Sunday before Christmas.
The boy concluded singing "Silent Night" with the words, "Sleep in heavenly beans." "
No," his sister corrected, "not
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Dec 27, 2002
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John Newton was a rough, dirty sailor with a foul mouth and an appetite for rotten living. He hated life and life hated him. He was captain of a slave ship. Then someone placed in his hands a copy of Thomas a Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ. He also had the gift of a good mother who told him about
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Baptist
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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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