Contributed by Hugh Laing on Jan 19, 2010
Paul insisted if Jesus resurrection was not fact the whole Christian message then was based on a lie.
“Take away the resurrection,” he said, “and you destroy both
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 7, 2009
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GO BEYOND THE CROSS
Every year, thousands of people climb a mountain in the Italian Alps, passing the "stations of the cross" to stand at an outdoor crucifix. One tourist noticed a little trail that led beyond the cross. He fought through the rough thicket and, to his surprise, came upon another
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jan 31, 2010
A shy Welshman went and slipped a love letter under his neighbor lady’s door each week for 40 years. Because of an argument they had years before, she continued to refuse to speak to him. Finally, after 2,184 love letters – with no response of any kind – the now 74 year old man went and knocked on
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Dana Chau on Jun 4, 2003
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If, however, we believe that we are the product of a Creator who made us and set us free, we will conclude as William Ernest Henley in his poem, "Invictus":
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul....
It matters
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jan 8, 2003
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George Sweeting, in his book The No-Guilt Guide for Witnessing, tells of a man by the name of John Currier who in 1949 was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Later he was transferred and paroled to work on a farm near Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1968, Currier’s sentence was
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A highly successful lawyer lived about 300 miles away from his lonely father. They had not seen each other for years, even though they had an agreement he would make a quarterly visit every year. His father calls him up and asks, “when are you going to visit?” John the son proceeds to tell his dad
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Methodist
Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Sep 11, 2024
A bit of an aside, when we were in Sri Lanka, I had the opportunity to attend the opening of one of the well projects in the east. Rochelle went to all of them because she ran the projects. The reason these wells were being placed in villages was because many people in the East didn’t have a good
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Art Good on Jul 26, 2007
Recently I read about a Pastor who had a thorn. He had just started - getting involved in teaching and preaching and sensing that it might be some area of calling for him.
It was on a Sunday morning at this church and five minutes into his message he started to get dizzy and woozy and the room
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 11, 2007
John Stott writes, "For it is when we remember people (their faces, names and needs) that we are prompted both to thank God and to pray for
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Independent/Bible
Electricity is a physical phenomenon that illustration the indwelling of God’s power in the Christian’s life. The world remained in darkness until this physical phenomenon was discovered about 1900.
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Contributed by Felipe Villegas on Dec 29, 2005
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This poem was written by a workaholic dad:
I have a son who’s five years old, a boy so very fine.
When I look at him it seems to me that all the world is mine.
But seldom do I ever see my son awake and bright.
I only see him when he sleeps. I’m only home at night.
When I come home so weary
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 22, 2010
A professor at Cornell University wrote this poem. I can’t decide if he were a disciple of Christ or an opponent.
What was our trust, we trust not;
What was our faith, we doubt.
Whether we must or must not,
We may debate about.
The soul perhaps is a gust of gas,
And wrong is a
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
BELIEVING THE ANCIENT RECORD
On January 6, 1822, Heinrich Schliemann was born. He would one day achieve world renown and great wealth. When Heinrich Schliemann was seven years old, a picture of ancient Troy in flames captured his imagination. Contrary to what many people believed, Heinrich argued
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Brethren
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Some years ago a famous actor was giving an after dinner speech.
He asked his audience if there was any famous poem that they would like him to recite. There was a silence.
Eventually an old vicar raised his hand and said: "Psalm 23 please."
The actor agreed, on one condition: that the
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Anglican
Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on May 27, 2024
Quiet mounds of earth,
Erected crosses;
So many souls,
So many losses.
This special day
Has been set aside
To honor those
Who, for us, have died.
May we hold dear
Every gain and loss,
And ne’er forget
What’s beneath the cross.
Thank you, dear Lord,
For the brave who gave—
Who now occupy
A
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Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jul 22, 2005
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Speaking of Horns - I like what I heard one preacher says, "A lot of preaching is Long Horn preaching". A couple of points with a lot of bull in between. I hope
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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There’s a story told - and I take it to be a parable because I hope it’s not true - of a country church which had a creeper - perhaps an ivy plant - growing up by the porch doorway. Over the doorway was a text carved in stone, "We preach Christ crucified". Over the years the plant grew steadily
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