Contributed by Bruce Landry on Dec 18, 2006
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Family
Clovis Chappell, a minister from a century back, used to tell the story of two paddleboats. They left Memphis about the same time, traveling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they traveled side by side, sailors from one vessel made a few remarks about the snail’s pace of the
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Baptist
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Sep 19, 2003
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Writer and speaker Lewis Smedes says:
Yes, somewhere people still make and keep promises.
They choose not to quit when the going gets rough because they promised once to see it through.
They stick to lost causes.
They hold on to a love grown cold.
They stay with people who have become pains in
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 13, 2003
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While the Dorman’s and we were in San Diego for the National Outreach Convention, we went for a walk on the beach by the ocean. None of us had ever been in the Pacific Ocean, so as a wave came in we walked up to it until it faded out at our feet. The wave became a thin sheet of water at the tip
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Methodist
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Nov 17, 2003
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Any adults here remember the television show, "Emergency?"¨
That was my ultra-favorite show. And at times I wish I had TV Land on my TV so I could watch it still.
But because of that show, I was planning to be a paramedic, like the guys on that show.
I thought it was really cool to use the
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 18, 2003
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WHY DO WE CELEBRATE?
Lou Whitmire, a reporter in Mansfield, Ohio, asked the all important question "Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?" to students at Sherman Elementary school. Here are a few of the answers he got:
Jamie Copley, 7, said people celebrate Thanksgiving because it’s the
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Lewis Smedes wrote this not long ago in his book, “A Chorus of Witnesses”. Yes, somewhere people still make and keep promises. They choose not to quit when the going gets rough because they promised once to see it through. They stick to lost causes. They hold on to a love grown cold. They stay
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Baptist
Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Jan 19, 2004
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A FROZEN FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Twenty seven people are banking on the idea that modern science will someday find or engineer a fountain of youth. Those 27 people, all deceased, are “patients” of the Alcor Life Extension Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona, where their bodies—or merely their heads!—have
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Baptist
Contributed by Thomas H on Feb 11, 2004
Three phrases describing the oppression by foreigners that the Israelites felt, are given one after the other: “the yoke of burden”, “the staff of his shoulder” and “the rod of his oppressor”. The three phrases are piled on top of each other to show a picture of terrible oppression. In those
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Baptist
Contributed by Steve Malone on Dec 15, 2004
NOW – you may be wondering what the red cups on the stage are all about… NO – they’re not Christmas decorations… I brought them here to illustrate how rich we really are when compared to billions of people in this world…
CHECKOUT – the statistics on the screen…
World-Wide Income… (6.2
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Serving Jesus
• A certain family in a Southern Baptist Church had been inactive for years.
• The family simply never went to church any more and every effort to get them to attend had failed.
• One day one of the sons, name John, was bitten by a rattlesnake.
The father immediately sent for the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Early in the nineteenth century, the King of Prussia, Frederick William III, found his nation in great trouble.
He had been attempting to bring prosperity to his land, but constant wars had drained the treasury. After prayerful consideration, he wrote an open letter to the women of Prussia asking
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In an interview with TIME magazine, Bill Gates is quoted as saying:
“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
Bill Gates has a net worth of 56 billion dollars. To put that in perspective, there are
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 17, 2007
Two Gun Crowley
On May 7, 1931 the most sensational manhunt in New York City came to a climax. After a two week search “Two gun Crowley- the killer who didn’t smoke or drink was trapped in his girlfriends apartment. 150 policeman laid siege to the apartment. The chopped holes in the roof to
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
There’s a movie called “The Guardian” about training in the Coast Guard Academy. There’s one guy in the story who’s trying again after failing the program 2X before. There was a phase of the training that stopped him every time – practicing saving a drowning victim who’s panicked. The instructor
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Daniel Owens on Feb 12, 2008
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Anyone see “Oprah” this past week?...I believe it was on Friday, Feb. 8.
The test tube babies of the 80’s have come of age...and Oprah had some of those young people on her show.
These children had no identity apart from a mother and were in a constant search for, not only there father, but for
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 26, 2008
David Cho as a young man was a Buddhist. He was pretty devout but his life was hopeless. He lived in abject poverty in Korea and as happens a lot with people in those situations he was dying. In his case, he was dying of tuberculosis. TB often runs rampant in the slums.
He had heard that the God
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Church Of God