Contributed by Mark Thornton on Nov 12, 2001
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As I was getting ready to come to church today, I was helping my son to get a bath -- and quite frankly, he didn’t want to have a bath, especially because he couldn’t sit and play in the tub for awhile. And so he resisted and complained and made it difficult -- but we struggled through it and got
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Contributed by Jason Cole on Feb 18, 2004
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A Man approached a little league baseball game one afternoon. He asked a boy in the dugout what the score was. The boy responded, “Eighteen to nothing—we’re behind.” “Boy,” said the spectator, “I’ll be you’re discouraged.”
“Why should
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Mar 23, 2009
Moody was to have a campaign in England. An elderly pastor protested, “Why do we need this ‘Mr. Moody?’ He’s uneducated, inexperienced, etc. Who does he think he is anyway? Does he think he has a monopoly on the Holy Spirit?”
A younger,
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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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Contributed by Perry Greene on May 3, 2012
WILL YOU GET USED TO IT?
A new minister was standing at his study window, weeping as he looked over the tragic conditions of the inner city of the community in which he lived. His friend tried to console him by saying, "Don't worry, you will
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 1, 2012
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WELL SAID
A woman, who was a terrible cook, gave a preacher a pie to take home to his family. After tasting the pie, they simply threw the rest in the trash, unable to eat it.
The next Sunday, the woman asked the preacher, "How did you like my
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 26, 2007
In a Peanuts cartoon strip, Charlie Brown says to Linus, "Life is just too much for me. I’ve been confused from the day I was born. I think the whole trouble is that we’re thrown into life too fast. We’re not really
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 18, 2008
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Temptation comes to us all, whether we’re in the pew or the pulpit! It can be pride in our Christian service in whatever form it takes, even, or perhaps especially, in preaching! The well-known evangelist of few decades ago, Smith Wigglesworth descended a pulpit and responded
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Baptist
Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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A recent Gallup Poll revealed that a nationwide survey of parents of children ages 7-12 that family time has decreased since 1976. The percentage of respondents who engaged frequently in attending religious services together decreased from 38 percent in 1976 to 29 percent in 1997. The percentage
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Contributed by Louis Bartet on Mar 16, 2003
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In the 1999 movie "Instinct," Anthony Hopkins plays an anthropologist and primatologist, Ethan Powel, who is being held in a maximum security prison for the critically insane. Cuba Gooding’s character is an ambitious psychiatrist, Dr. Theo Caulder, who is asked to evaluate Powel. At one point in
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WHAT DO YOU DO IN DISASTER?
What do you do when you are faced with a disaster that strikes home at your heart? Do you respond or do you try to blame others? Do you ignore it? Pretend it’s just a story?
Nehemiah finds out how bad the city of Jerusalem is from a recent news report. It perplexes
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Contributed by Andrew Moffatt on Jun 17, 2024
Here is a wee question, is struggling with God a bad thing? Where is a person's character developed? Did the saints of God become saints before or without struggling with God, without responding to those things in the scriptures or the words of Jesus that offended them, before they repented of
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Salvation Army
Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 23, 2000
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Follow the example of Deanna Shrodes, the choir director of the North Carroll Assembly of God in Manchester, MD who takes her choir to bars and prisons. Why?
According to Deanna, they go to places "where we were guaranteed to find hurting people." They are taking their message of hope
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 12, 2001
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David said he was the apple of God’s eye. I can always enthusiastically claim that I know who God’s favorite child is..."me". And so I am, and so are you, and you...He sees each of us as His favorite and there are no seconds, and thus He
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Contributed by David Yarbrough on Nov 12, 2001
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The following ad once appeared in a London newspaper: "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful." The ad was signed by Sir Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic explorer. Amazingly, the ad drew thousands of
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Contributed by Denn Guptill on Apr 28, 2003
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Old country preacher was met one day by a member of his congregation who asked, “Preacher if salvation is free, how come you’re always asking for money?” Good question, maybe one you’ve asked yourself. The preacher responded by saying “Salvation is free, as free as the water
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Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Apr 27, 2006
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ILLUSTRATION: A senior pastor who told his handsome new assistant pastor to avoid the dangers of immorality in the ministry. The assistant pastor quite sure of himself said, "I’ll do much of my socializing in groups, there is safety in numbers." The wise senior pastor however responded, "Yes,
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