Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to try and retrieve the donkey.
So, he invited all his
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 8, 2009
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CHUTZPAH– Obnoxious Aggressiveness
Are you familiar with the Yiddish word "chutzpah"? It means "supreme self-confidence, boldness, nerve, audacity."
Esther Schwartz was in front of a hotel in Miami with her three-year-old grandson, Jacob. She absolutely adores Jacob. She bought precious little
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FAITH FIGHTS
Habakkuk 2:4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
I heard a story about a midwestern farmer 50 years ago. The farmer went to the bank to borrow money to buy seed to plant his whole farm in corn. He fired up the old tractor
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Contributed by Vera Hughes on Feb 20, 2008
Story: Teddy Stallard Story
Teddy Stallard certainly qualified as "one of the least": disinterested in school; musty, wrinkled clothes; hair never combed; one of those kids in school with a deadpan face; an expressionless, glassy, unfocused stare. When Miss Thompson spoke to Teddy he always
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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I wrote this at the end of 2014
Fourteen years from the Millennium seemed a long time and now we are into a new year – again!!
I have spent much of last week preparing to lead a pilgrimage to Israel – a new experience for me.
And with the new it is good to recall the old.
Our Gospel reading is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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It is wise to think about the past and learn from it. But it is unwise for us to be in the past...It is also wise for us to think about the future and plan for it. But it is unwise for us to be in the
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
Lord Jesus, thou who art the way, the truth, and the life; hear us as we pray for the truth that shall make all free. Teach us that liberty is not only to be loved but also to be lived. Liberty is too precious a thing to be buried in books. It costs too much to be hoarded. Help us see that our
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Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 10, 2007
Students don’t clean their hands often or well enough. In one study, only 58% of female and 48% of male middle and high school students washed their hands after using the bathroom. Of these, only 33% of the females and 8% of the males used soap.
Adult hand cleaning behaviors also need improvement.
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 14, 2012
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Years ago, I spent a couple of years at Purdue University and some of the classes I took were in Philosophy. In one of those classes, the professor (who was an atheist) stood up in front of the class and said “Jesus didn’t die on the cross, and I can prove it.”
His proof?
He said that when a
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 21, 2007
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IN A FEW DAYS WE WILL CELEBRATE MEMORIAL DAY. It was unofficially begun by women of the South during the Civil War when they placed flowers over the graves of the “men in gray.”
In 1868, General John A. Logan, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued an order officially
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Contributed by Chris Surber on Jun 17, 2010
Christina recently gave birth to our first daughter. After three sons I am very pleased to have a little girl. Recently I was speaking to the academic dean of the seminary where I am pursuing doctoral studies. The school had asked for individual and family photos of students like me who are
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Christian Church
SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGE
Back in 1991, I went on a mission trip to the former Soviet Union. Twenty-or-so of us arrived on a snowy November day in Samara, a city of more than a million people located on the Volga River. We were there for about ten days, and our mission was to help start a
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
GRACE AND GEORGE WILLIAMS
Max Ellerbusch tells the story of the Friday six days before Christmas. He was working feverishly in his instrument repair shop so he could have all of the Christmas holiday at home with the family when the call came. His 5-year-old Craig had been fatally struck by a car.
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Methodist
Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 13, 2023
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When I was a young boy, I started mowing yards to make money so I could buy hundreds and hundreds of baseball cards! When I made my first money, my mother reminded me of what God says in the Bible about tithing. "Now, son, the word tithe means one-tenth. God asks us to bring 1 out of every
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Contributed by David Simmons on Jan 18, 2001
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Why would God go to all the trouble to endure our bad choices and our flagrant sinning in order to have relationship with us? Hear the story of the lost son from the modern setting as told by Philip Yancey in his book What’s so Amazing about Grace.
Yancey tells the story of a prodigal daughter
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Contributed by Bobby Mcdaniel on Aug 28, 2003
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The Ant and the Contact Lens
A true story by Josh and Karen Zarandona
Brenda was a young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was very scared, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took a hold on the rope, and started
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Contributed by James Jack on Mar 8, 2005
Imagine a man standing in the middle of some train tracks, reading a
newspaper. You’re standing to the side of the tracks, and you notice that he doesn’t
seem to be getting off. In the distance behind him, you can see the train coming
toward him, you can hear the noise it makes. Strangely,
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Contributed by Gerald Albers on Feb 25, 2007
I am a mother of three (ages 14, 12, 3) and have recently completed my college degree. The last class I had to take was Sociology. The teacher was absolutely inspiring with the qualities that I wish every human being had been graced with.
Her last project of the term was called "Smile." The class
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Independent/Bible
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