Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 29, 2008
Watch Your Step
As a child, my second home was a baby-sitters house. My father worked on rotating shifts as a policeman, so often times we even slept there. My sitter was one BIG lady - over 300lbs. After many times of wetting her bed, she took away my bed sleeping privileges and forced me to
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Robert Mitchell on Apr 21, 2008
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1.The TV is my shepherd, My spiritual growth shall want;
It makes me to sit down and do nothing for His Name’s sake.
2. It requires all my spare time; It keeps me from doing my Christian duty. It produces so many good shows that I must see; It restores my knowledge of the world.
3. It keeps me
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Baptist
Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
A preacher once met a man named Worral. He had been stricken with rheumatoid
arthritis at age 15, years went by before he met him again. 30 years later they crossed
paths only to find Worral now totally paralyzed except for 1 finger. He could barely speak
and was totally blind.
But he had a
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Baptist
Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jul 23, 2010
How amazing was the news story of the 15-month-old boy who survived the train accident in May this year.
It all took place in a split second but for the grandmother who looked away for just a moment from the pram she was pushing, it must have seemed like eternity. When she turned back, the pram
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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One tribe of native Americans had a unique practice for training young braves. On the night of a boy’s thirteenth birthday, he was placed in a dense forest to spend the entire night alone. Until then he had never been away from the security of his family and tribe. But on this night he was
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Toby Powers on Dec 29, 2005
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The message has been about a couple of prophets who fell by the wayside, but I want to tell you of a man that finished the race:
Dave and Nikki McDonald were missionaries to Iraq. They were shot in pieces by mortar fire and AK-47’s while in Iraq working on a water-purification project and sharing
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Baptist
Contributed by Troy Borst on Dec 8, 2006
ILLUSTRATION… UPI News Item (http://www.bible.org/illus.php?topic_id=509)
The Metropolitan Insurance Company received some unusual explanations for accidents from its automobile policyholders. The following are just few:
“An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car, and vanished.”
“The
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bob Joyce on Oct 10, 2007
Dr. Pierce Harris was the long time pastor of First United Methodist Church in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Harris spoke one day at the state penitentiary. He was introduced to the prisoners by one of the inmates. In his introduction, the inmate said, “I want to tell you a story about two boys.
• They
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Baptist
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Feb 3, 2009
VOLCANIC ROCK AND COAL
When I went to Italy on holiday, one of the tours was to visit Mount Vesuvius. I climbed to the summit, and there was a huge crater with smoke coming out of it because, although the volcano is dormant just now, deep down in the earth there's molten rock. When the pressure
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