Contributed by Scott Bayles on Jun 27, 2009
GRACE CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE
My wife, Ashley, once told me about a moment of grace that will forever remain in her memory. One icy November afternoon when she was in high school, a carload of teenage boys were on their way to a basketball game. Ashley was a cheerleader and had already arrived at the
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
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GO FIND SOMETHING TO DO FOR GOD
Ruth Rettig tells the story of having gone through unsuccessful cancer surgery and following up with chemo in Houston, which meant 500-mile roundtrips from their home in central Texas. The trips were exhausting enough but the chemo made her feel sick to death. She
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Methodist
Contributed by Tim White on Mar 5, 2012
THE UNENDING WISH
When I was a boy, my dad asked me if I could have one wish be granted, what would it be? We played that game as a family, and every time my brother or one of my sisters thought of a better wish than I thought about, I would change my wish. Then my dad unplugged all the fun by
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Baptist
Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 17, 2003
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FOR YOU, MOTHER
This is for all the mothers who have sat up all night with sick toddlers in their arms, wiping up barf full of Oscar Mayer wieners and cherry Kool-Aid saying, "It’s OK honey, Mommy’s here."
This is for all the mothers who show up at work with spit-up in their hair and milk stains
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Dec 17, 2003
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THERE GOES MY LIFE
Kenny Chesney has a new song/music video out entitled, “There Goes My Life…” It’s a ballad focusing on the life of two young kids in high school that find themselves in a crisis moment of a pregnancy out of wedlock. (I want to say here that I’m not advocating the immoral
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Nazarene
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Aug 19, 2008
AMATEUR COUNTERFEITER------
You may have read in the paper that counterfeit bills have been turning up here and there around town. What you may have not heard about, is the amateur counterfeiter that was operating here in town. It turns out that this amateur counterfeiter accidentally printed a
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Todd Catteau on Oct 6, 2009
Imagine this scenario:
You have been diagnosed with a rare blood disease and need a blood transfusion. But this transfusion must come from a sibling. To your knowledge you have no siblings, that is until your parents tell you a story they have kept secret for years. You do have a brother. Years
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
IF I SURVIVE, I'LL BE OK
John Ortberg tells the story of going to a dude ranch in Arizona at the instance of his wife who felt the vacation was not complete without "the exhilaration of a truly challenging horseback ride." (His exact words.)
The first time he went out at the ranch, he did so with
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Church Of God
Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 7, 2011
MERCY ME: HOLD FAST
Mercy Me is a Christian band (I Can Only Imagine) and recently they sang a song called, "Hold Fast." Bart Millard tells the story of the inspiration for "Hold Fast":
"I was standing in the back of the bus going to our next concert. We were in a traffic jam and we passed a
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jul 28, 2011
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GOD STANDS BY HIS PROMISES
Oswald Chambers once wrote, "Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust that never dreams that He will not stand by us."
Missionaries Dick and Margaret Hillis found themselves caught in China during the Japanese invasion. The couple lived with their two children in an
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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Why do people wear masks?
Several years ago, I had a nightmare, it was terrible.
For many days my spirit was greatly troubled.
In a dream, I saw one of my most serious workers at
church dying a terrible death.
As my church worker was dying,
I saw a battle going against my member.
I was
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Bruce Willis on Nov 29, 2006
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I remember well when the Holy Spirit helped me come to a conviction that I was a sinner and needed a Savior. I was a young adult of 20, married, and the father of one child at the time. I had been running with the boys and come to the place of desiring a divorce from my wife. Also, I was doing
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Baptist
Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Aug 2, 2009
SHEPHERDLESS SHEEP
How pitiful shepherdless sheep are! Shepherdless sheep become easy prey for wolves, coyotes, and other predators. They can’t outrun them. They can’t outfight them. And what wolf would be scared off by a bleating: baaa? Sheep are left torn and bloodied and dead without a
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Lutheran
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