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WE HAVE BEEN FREED FROM OUR SINFUL PAST
Two brothers were convicted of stealing sheep. For their crime they were each branded on the forehead with the letters "ST," for "sheep thief."
One brother immediately ran away from the area and attempted to build a new life in another country. Even
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2006
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The Wheat of Heaven
Taken from the stalk of Calvary
Placed within the dark, cold earth
Silent lies the Wheat of heaven
There to wait resurrection birth
Left alone in fragrant seed coat
Till the time had come to pass
It would soon give way to victory
Life eternal sprang forth at last
When
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Contributed by Darryl Bell on Apr 17, 2006
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Roger Rose tells this story: When he was a boy more than 60 years ago, his young brother was fatally injured in a tragic accident. A dirt road ran alongside their house, and only on rare occasions would there be a car on it. But one day as his brother was crossing on his bike, a car came roaring
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Contributed by Daniel Harman on Aug 28, 2006
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FROM BEGGER TO BUISINESS MAN!
A banker always tossed a coin in the cup of a legless beggar who sat on the street outside the bank. But unlike most people, the banker would always insist on getting one of the pencils the man had beside him. “You are a merchant,” the banker would say, “and I always
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I kid you not folks, at the church where I preached before coming to Central---we had enough people complaining back and forth about the temperature that the church board actually ending up voting on the thermostat setting---and then once they decided what it would be---to make sure no one could
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 17, 2006
My family and I were watching America’s Funniest Videos Friday night. There’s clip of a bike race. A guy is approaching the finish line, way out in front. He pauses to raise his hands in victory, and as he does, he wipes out. As he gets back up, some 20 other bikes pass him and he creeps across
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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
In ancient times, poor beggars often were found by rich people’s houses as well as by busy streets and anywhere else people would pass. They were especially found near the temple gates and this still true today. Beggar gypsies are all around the churches in Romania; the same in France and UK. Paris
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Seventh-Day Adventist
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
A young police officer was taking his final exam for the police academy and he was set the following problem to solve.
"You are on patrol in the outer city when an explosion occurs in a gas main in a nearby street. On investigation you find that a large hole has been blown in
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Anglican
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Apr 26, 2010
THE REAL TONIC OF LIFE
Lee Garfunkal's Pepsi versus Coke commercial is too funny. Pepsi is delivered to the Shady Acres Senior’s Retirement Home. The residents are talking rap over rock while Grandma zips by on a skateboard. Hi-fives are going around. One old guy loves the music pumping through
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Salvation Army
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Have you ever seen a Billy Mays commercial? He has unfortunately passed away, but he was known for endorsing a lot of products, always keeping a loud voice volume, and enthusiastically selling some of the most ridiculous items on the market. One of the items he endorses is called the Awesome
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Aug 26, 2010
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote: “Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance, through which he wills to perpetuate the human race till the end of time. In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a
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Presbyterian/Reformed
THE LIBERTY BELL
One of the most, iconic symbols of our national heritage --the Liberty Bell --hangs magnificently in the city of brotherly love. In 1751, the Pennsylvania Assembly ordered the bell to commemorate the commonwealth's fiftieth anniversary of William Penn's 1701 Charter of
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Lutheran
Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 7, 2011
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TEMPTATION DOESN'T ALWAYS END IN FAILURE
The same Spirit that came down from heaven like a dove now led Jesus into the desert so He could be tempted by Satan. Why?
Have you ever felt that you have been unjustly persecuted? Have you ever felt passed over, left behind, cast away or just can't seem
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Contributed by John D Jones on Oct 26, 2011
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GOD'S HEARTBEAT IN US
For 72 years Gordon and Norma Yeager shared their lives together as husband and wife. On October 12, 2011, while on a morning drive Gordon came to a stop sign and failed to yield to oncoming traffic. The elderly couple was taken to the Marshalltown Hospital near Des Moines,
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