Contributed by Brent Williams on Jun 7, 2001
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The Train and the Boy
I would like to tell you a story about a man named John Griffith. John was the father of an 8-year-old boy during the 20’s and 30’s. John was very fortunate during those times, because he had job. John loved his son very much. He was the apple of his eye. John’s son was a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 3, 2002
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IF TOMORROW STARTS WITHOUT ME
If tomorrow starts without me,
And I’m not there to see;
If the sun should rise and find your eyes
All filled with tears for me;
I wish so much you wouldn’t cry
The way you did today,
While thinking of the many things,
We didn’t get to say.
I know how much you love
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Contributed by Jeremy Houck on Sep 10, 2005
Ruby was born in the Delta region of the Mississippi River in 1954. Also in 1954 the Supreme Court heard a case called Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education. After the arguments were made, the high court ruled that separate but equal education for blacks and whites while it was separate it was in no
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Jun 3, 2020
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AT WHAT AGE SHOULD A PASTOR RETIRE? TEN DIAGNOSTIC QUESTIONS
There are a lot of Baby Boomer pastors and Christian leaders around. And it’s cliché, but they aren’t getting any younger. It’s a quiet question that many are asking, but they are asking it nonetheless: What age should I
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Aug 3, 2008
This passage from the Bible says that if a person “has” Jesus in his or her life, then they have “eternal life.”
What’s eternal life? The bottom line is that it means Heaven. Forever.
And how do we get that eternal life? By having Jesus in your life. This says that if we have Jesus, we have
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Wesleyan
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- Did you know that the first modern-day lottery was started in 1963 in the state of New Hampshire. And now there are 37 states who have lotteries, including Illinois. And in 1997, statewide lotteries suckered $16 Billion dollars from Americans.
- Did you know that the state of
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Contributed by Dean Kennedy on Sep 1, 2002
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IS THIS THE LIFE I WANT?
"I look in on my children as they sleep at night, [and] I think of the kind of father I want to be. I want to create moments of magic, I want them to remember laughing until the tears flow ... I want to have slow, sweet talks with them as they’re getting ready to close
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
He was born in Columbus, Ohio, 1890, the third of eight children. At eleven he quit school to help with the family expenses, and got his first full-time job at $3.50 per week. At fifteen he got interested in automobiles and went to work in a garage at $4.50 a week. He knew he would never get
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 30, 2002
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AFRAID TO FAIL
Back when Joe Garagiola was a catcher in the major leagues, he had a young pitcher out on the mound who had just come up from the team’s farm club. It was his first time ever to pitch in the majors. The first two batters he faced had both gotten hits, and now were on second and
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Contributed by Jeff Simms on Sep 27, 2004
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In his book “The Weight of Your Words” author Joseph Stowell tells the following story:
My junior high school had scheduled its annual operatic production. Talented students were quick to try out for the various parts. I was not so certain of my abilities and had decided that singing in an
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Baptist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 2, 2007
One time Jesus mentioned to his disciples that the temple and the other buildings in Jerusalem would be destroyed. The disciples asked Jesus when this would happen. He doesn’t give them a straight answer but one statement he says is: (Mark 13:15 NIV) Let no one on the roof of his house go down
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In 2002 at Because of the Times, one of the concluding times of one of the services, Bro. Anthony Mangun asked for Sis. Kilgore to come and pray over the ministers that were there. Little did anyone realize that in just 3 ½ months, in the month of May, that Sis. Kilgore would be promoted to a
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
1. (Illustration) In the former Soviet Union several years ago, there was a house church that had to meet in secret to avoid reprisals from the communist government. One Sunday these believers arrived inconspicuously in small groups throughout the day so as not to arouse the suspicion of KGB
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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I’ve never lifted a barn, but Herman Ostry, a farmer in Bruno, Nebraska has. Shortly after buying a piece of land and a barn, a nearby creek rose, and the barn was under twenty nine inches of water. He half-jokingly said to his family, ‘I bet if we had enough people, we could pick up that barn and
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2008
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However, they are some situations that would test that conviction. Here is a story about one who lived by the principle of thanksgiving. It is a letter written years ago to Billy Graham.
Dear Rev. Graham: You will probably never see this letter. I know, however, I feel compelled to write to
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We’re going to study a book of the Bible that is often called the LETTER OF JOY. Paul uses the word JOY 20 times in the short little book of Philippians.
What makes that really impressive is that Paul wrote the letter from a prison cell. He was not only in prison; he was literally chained to a
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