Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 13, 2001
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A Christian grocer was in financial difficulties because his customers thought they could run up their bills indefinitely. They felt that such a saintly man would never press them for payment or take them to court. Their ready excuse was, “We don’t have money to pay our bills.” “How can I pay my
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Aug 24, 2001
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[God Is Just One Squeal Away, Citation: Rod Cooper, "Worship or Worry?" Preaching Today, Tape No. 108.]
We raised pigs.
We raised about a thousand pigs a year.
In one field we had two or three hundred little oinkers running around.
Every day, at four in the morning, as I’d walk into the field
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Persian Legend - Pour Water Into Basket
A certain king needed a faithful servant and had to choose between two candidates for the office. He took both at fixed wages and told them to fill a basket with water from a nearby well, saying that he would come in the evening to inspect their work.
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Contributed by Jan Spencer on Mar 19, 2002
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What is a Grandmother? By a Third Grader
A grandmother is a lady who has no children of her own. She likes other people’s little girls and boys. A grandfather is a man grandmother. He goes for walks with boys, and they talk about fishing and stuff like that.
Grandmothers don’t have to do
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Jul 17, 2002
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ILL. I like the story about the 3rd-graders who were asked to write down the 7 wonders of the world. So they took blank pieces of paper, & started writing down what they thought were the 7 wonders of the world.
After a while, the teacher collected the papers & began looking at their answers,
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Contributed by Michael Semon on Nov 1, 2002
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A judge was interviewing a woman regarding her pending divorce, and asked, "What are the grounds for your divorce?"
She replied, "About four acres and a nice little home in the middle of the property with a stream running by."
"No," he said, "I mean what is the foundation of this case?"
"It is
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Contributed by Robert Leroe on Dec 9, 2002
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The attention of the country was recently focused on a high school football game in McDermott, Ohio. In the final quarter, Dave Frants and Derek Dewit, the rival coaches called a timeout, conferred together, and agreed upon a highly unusual play. On one team was 17-year old Jake Porter, a
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Contributed by Karl Ingersoll on Mar 8, 2003
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The church that is alive and well is a growing one. Where there is no growth there is a problem.
Some churches have parking problems, some other churches don’t.
Some churches have kids running around making a lot of noise some other churches tend to be very quiet.
Some churches usually have
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Contributed by Mark Hensley on Mar 13, 2003
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George Burns a comedian from another generation once sang a song titled
I wish I was 18 again
At a restaurant in Dallas an old man chimed in,
And I thought he was out of his head.
Just being a young man I just laughed it off
When I heard what that old man had said.
He said I’ll never again
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Contributed by Chip Kelly on Jul 1, 2003
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Thirty years ago, the Miami Dolphins embarked on an unforgettable & unparalleled season. 14-0 regular season, then a 3-0 run through the playoffs culminating with a Super Bowl victory. No other team has matched that perfect record. Every year 30-some odd teams try, but for 3 decades, it stands
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 12, 2003
Lanny Bassham, Olympic gold-medallist in small-bore rifle competition, tells what concentration does for his marksmanship: "Our sport is controlled non-movement. We are shooting from 50 meters--over half a football field--at a bull’s eye three- quarters the size of a dime. If the angle of error at
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Contributed by Wes Richard on Jan 7, 2004
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Bill Hybels, in his book Courageous Leadership, (p. 249) uses this illustration. He has a sailboat and every summer his sailing crew and he have to deliver his sailboat by water to various harbors around the great lakes for regattas. Some of them are a long ways away. Sometimes he runs into storms
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Contributed by Pb Stetser on Jul 6, 2004
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Dreary Statistics
• 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes --U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census
• 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes --Center for Disease Control
• 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes
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Contributed by John Quigley on Jan 7, 2005
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In his book, "The Necessity of Prayer," Dr. E. M. Bounds tells a story that had been told to him by a contemporary of his, A. C. Dixon. The story he told is the following: ""A dear friend of mine who was quite a lover of the chase, told me the following story: ’Rising early one morning,’ he said,
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C. S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity:
Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are
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Contributed by Kent Lenard on Feb 13, 2005
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John Speke was an English explorer. He stood one day staring at a wall of water that he spent the biggest part of 1858 trying to reach, and he described it as only and Englishman could, " We were well rewarded" was what he said. He was describing the falls of the upper Nile River. For weeks he
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