Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Dec 16, 2010
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?
A number of years ago a couple traveled to the offices of an Adoption Society in England to receive a baby. They had been on the waiting list a long time. They had been interviewed and carefully scrutinized. Now at last their dreams were to be fulfilled. But their day of
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
IMAGINARY JESUS
Matt Mikalatos has written a fictional story entitled, "Imaginary Jesus." In that story the main character encounters a wide variety of people who claim to be Jesus, but who actually represent our diverse and ever-changing depictions of who we want Jesus to be and the roles we want
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Contributed by Paul Dietz on Jul 19, 2011
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WHERE DO WE STAND?
This past Tuesday morning I had finally settled down into my easy chair to read the daily news paper. As always, I turned to the editorial section of which is one of favorites, besides the daily “Frank and Ernest” cartoon. There I found a very interesting Readers Commentary
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The sower
The story is told of a young man who had just started his new job in the produce department of a grocery store, when a woman came up to him asking to buy a half head of lettuce.
As politely as he could, the young man said that “In this store, we don’t sell half heads of lettuce, we
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Contributed by Danny Presswood on Jan 26, 2009
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ABOUND, THEN REBOUND
Abundant Love must REBOUND. Rebounding, as every good basketball team knows, is the cutting edge between defense and offense. Whichever team rebounds most successfully becomes the team in control of the ball. The team that rebounds becomes the offense, goes on the move and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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I was no longer the Dirty American
I read a story the other day on the Internet by a missionary to India named Doug Nichols. Nichols was serving as a missionary in India when a bout with tuberculosis landed him in a public hospital for a spell. It wasn’t like hospitals here. It was a big ward
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Let me close with a true story of a humble black pastor in the inner city of Chicago who was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
“He was in his late sixties and had been a minister throughout his adult life. His love for the Lord was so profound that it was reflected in everything he said. When he
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Contributed by Stephen Todd on Apr 15, 2003
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All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. Share
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Aug 6, 2005
James Abram Garfield was born November 19, 1831, in a log cabin in the back woods of Ohio. His father died at the age of 2. Young James somehow earned enough money to go to college. He graduated from college in 1856, and he became a professor and president of Hiram College in Ohio, the college of
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on May 31, 2009
*Peter missed 3 opportunities to take a stand for Jesus.
-How many opportunities have we missed?
*Penn Gillette is a magician and comedian that you may have seen on TV. He is also an atheist. But Penn has a clip on YouTube where he tells about a man who talked to him after a show last year. This
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Oct 9, 2010
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THE ATHEISTS AND THE PHARISEES
He was wide eyed but unable to speak properly. The nurses told me that he did not have long to live. Brian (not his real name) was experiencing spasms of pain and shortness of breath. He was groaning, and looked weak, drawn and afraid. I offered to pray for him. I
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