Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 19, 2007
Several years ago, when I lived in San Antonio, the jr. high kids from our church were on an outing to the local lazar tag facility. When the kids arrived they were told that they were being bumped by a group of VIPs who had come to the facility just before them and so they had to wait an hour for
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 21, 2007
AUTHORITY OF JESUS
It is obvious that I love the Spurs NBA basketball team. Tim Duncan, who is on the San Antonio Spurs, is at the moment considered one of the greatest players of the sport. Tim Duncan routinely frustrates sports reporters as they interview him. The reporters want Tim to talk about
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 21, 2007
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Katie and I have this friend Denny from the San Francisco Bay Area who started attending seminary a couple of years after we started. Now Denny is quite the handsome man, but I never realized how handsome he was until he started school with us, he was a total chick magnet. On his arrival we had
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 30, 2007
A friend I grew up with, has always been a person who is very – upfront. She has never let an obstacle get in the way of where she was going. Growing up, I was always getting embarrassed by how brash she was. For example, there was a large movie theater in the area that was super popular. It was
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 28, 2007
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Sleepless
There once was a man named Randy Lo – his friends just called him Lo. Lo lived a hard life ignoring the many attempts of friends to introduce him to Jesus Christ. Eventually, though, Lo did become a Christian, giving his life over to our Lord Jesus. After some time, his walk with the Lord
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 28, 2007
The Carpet
True story, hard to believe, but true. We had friends at seminary who got a house sitting job back home in Ontario, Canada. It was a great gig, free housing for a whole summer. It was just like any other house sitting job except for one detail – the carpeting. They were instructed that,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Aug 27, 2007
THAT’S NOT MY GOD
Years ago I lead this bible study for a group of men, it was a great to study with these guys. We had this one guy who every time he saw something in a passage that did not correspond to his philosophy of life he would say, “That’s not my god, he would never do that, my god would
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Sep 2, 2007
YOU ARE WAY TOO CHRISTIAN FOR US
Greg graduated with me from Seminary with his Masters and went on to a major University to work on his PhD in theology. Greg is a very gifted and intelligent man and he did extremely well in his studies, pretty much at the top of his class in every area of study. So
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 1, 2007
Have you experienced the people with a self righteous diet plan? In my experience it is usually, but not always, a self proclaimed vegetarian.
Years ago Katie and I had a little dinner get together at our house. We had some Christian friends over, and a friend brought a date with him, a woman we
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 14, 2007
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Jack
A young man of age 22 was diagnosed with testicular cancer. It was serious. Jack was given a very low chance of making it. But a year later he was healthy and cancer free. A few weeks later it was discovered that Jack had a tumor the size of a football in his belly. It was intertwined around
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Nov 18, 2007
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The Authority of Jesus
Years ago I was on a trip to Israel with my seminary. We were taking a tour of Jerusalem and the church of the Holy Sepulcher. As we walked through the section controlled by the Ethiopian Orthodox, the monks ignored us, it was as if we didn’t exist. Then our professor told
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Nov 18, 2007
The Last Are First
There is a couple who lived here in Anchorage, who lived in one of the most broken down trailers I have ever seen. There home was, clean, and well kept but the trailer sure had seen better days – a long time ago. Some friends who had a little boy were looking at buying a house,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 19, 2007
JESUS IS STRONGER
Remember the Road Runner cartoons where Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner cartoons and inevitably end up in a tight situation? The Coyote will chase the bird failing every time. He will explode, have a rock fall on him, have a ACME device malfunction or fall off the edge of a
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 21, 2007
THE GIFT
A professor of mine from seminary told us this story: When he was a young man, all of 23, he had the opportunity to take a summer tour of Europe as a graduation present, he was from a well to do family. He traveled about Europe by train, boat and sometimes by bicycle. Finally he ended up
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 21, 2007
I once worked with a guy who would, every year, place a call to a local florist on Christmas Eve and order two gift baskets, one for his teenage daughter and one for his wife. It was a quick call, lasting about twenty five seconds. The florist would always ask what he wanted in the baskets and he
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 1, 2008
GOODNESS SCALE
Let’s look at it this way. If we place a scale on the wall behind me, with bad being at the bottom and good being at the top, where would you place yourself? We could place Hitler near the bottom, and Billy Graham closer to the top, right? My guess is all of us place ourselves
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 8, 2008
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FIRST CLASS UPGRADE
Why is it, by the way, that First Class passengers board the plane first? Sure it is great to get off the plane first, but is it so great to board the plane first? Shouldn’t First Class Passengers be the last ones on the plane and the first ones off the plane?
For me the idea
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 15, 2008
JESUS, MONEY & STUFF
I want us to note this: When people came to Jesus, Jesus never, never, gave them money. He never gave them stuff. And yet, what do we ask for? Stuff. How ridiculous. So then, isn’t it obvious? If Jesus never gave anyone money… or stuff, while he was walking the earth in His
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jan 22, 2008
YOU HAVE THE TIME?
Years ago, I was in the library at Seminary doing some research and this quite old and distinguished gentleman, obviously someone of great stature, he approaches me and asks, “Peter, can you tell me what time it is?” I was quite taken back. I had been at Seminary for less than a
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Peter Bines on Jan 22, 2008
On the news recently was the story of a great sandstorm blowing over Arizona in the US and the city of Phoenix was put under warning. A TV camera in a helicopter high above showed an immense wall of dust and sand rolling across the Phoenix valley smothering everything. It reduced road visibility to
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Independent/Bible
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