Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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The movie “The Hanging Tree” was set in a western gold-mining camp in the late 1800s. Gary Cooper played the role of doctor for the camp. One day a young boy was seen robbing gold from the camp. He was shot from a distance but managed to hobble into hiding. All hands in the camp spread out to see
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Contributed by Todd Catteau on Feb 24, 2009
A city boy, Kenny, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day the farmer
drove up and said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the donkey died." Kenny replied, "Well then, just give me my
money
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Barry Hidey on Jan 12, 2001
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Immediately following the Baltimore Raven’s final game last December(1999), Coach Brian Billick gathered the Ravens and said: "We’ve raised the bar. We can’t go back. We are at a new level, and we will move forward. Our fans, the media, the organization - all have new expectations for us. They’re
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Methodist
Contributed by Pat Cook on May 16, 2005
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The Wesleyan Bible Commentary puts it this way: “The eternal one, caught in a moment of time. The Omnipresence corralled in a cave manger. The Omnipotent cradled in a helpless infant who could not even raise His head from the straw. The Omniscience confined in a baby who would not say a word. The
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Baptist
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 10, 2007
The true story a meat store owner told some time back:
The owner said: “one day a customer informed me she had gotten some unexpected money and wanted to fill her freezer. She picked out about $200 worth of meat and handed me her credit card."
Laughing, the owner said: "I thought
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 28, 2009
PRAYER, ACCORDING TO THE MISHNA
"One who says the Tefillah so that it can be heard is of the small of faith; he who raises his voice in praying is of the false prophets; he who belches and yawns is of the arrogant; if he sneezes during his prayer it is a bad sign for him — some say, it shows that
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
YOU HAVE TO GET IN
A trapeze artist once supposedly boasted that he could take a person seated in a wheelbarrow across a tightrope many hundreds of feet up between two tall buildings. "Who thinks I can do it?" he asked a crowd who had gathered to watch.
One man raised his
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 23, 2003
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*Getting To Heaven*
The pastor was talking to a group of young children about believing in Jesus and going to heaven.
At the end of his talk, he asked, "Where do you want to go?"
"Heaven!" they all piped up.
"And what do you have to be to get
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2007
A father was at the beach with his children when the four-year-old son ran up to him, grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore where a seagull lay dead in the sand. "Daddy, what happened to him?" the son asked. "He died and went to Heaven," the
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 1, 2007
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In the Old Testament the High Priest went into the Holy of Holy’s with a rope attached to his leg and bells on his robe so that if he had sin on him and God struck him dead they could drag him out. If you knew this morning that you
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Sep 5, 2011
PRETEND-WORSHIP
Pretend-worship is the picture of a little boy looking up at his dad as a bird lies dead at his feet. His open, palms-up hands are accompanied with the caption at the bottom of the picture: "It wasn't me daddy". But, as we're
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Salvation Army
RUNNING TO A CROWD OR THE CEMETERY
Supposed you are being chased by a madman, and you had the choice of running either to a mall full of people or a cemetery. Where would you run? I think we would all run to the mall, where there are living people who can help you, and not
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