Contributed by Doyle Welborn on Apr 6, 2013
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BAPTISM: THE PEN IN THE BOOK
Baptism is an illustration of what it means to be "in Christ." Being placed into Christ when we are saved is like being placed into water, completely covered. We are not seen except through the water, as we are not seen by God except through Christ. When God the father
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Contributed by Spencer Miller on Jun 9, 2013
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The great English preacher Charles Spurgeon once said, "The gospel is preached in the ears of all men; it only comes with power to some. The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher otherwise men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher’s
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DO YOU BELIEVE IN PRAYER?
A tale is told about a small town that had historically been “dry,” but then a local businessman decided to build a bar. A group of believers from a local church were concerned and planned an all-night prayer meeting to ask God to intervene. It just so happened that
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A little girl asked her Mom, “Where do human beings come from?”
Mom answered, “God made Adam and Eve and they had children, and so was all mankind made.”
Two days later the girl asked her Dad the same question. Dad answered, “Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 22, 2025
A Welshman, Scot and Englishman are walking when they come across a lantern and a genie pops out and grants them one wish each.
The Scot says: “I am a sheep herder, like my dad before me. I want my country to be full of lovely sheep farms.” Whoosh, and so it was.
The Englishman was amazed and
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Jul 29, 2007
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I can remember my cousin Jenny as a joyful, delighted-with-life little girl who wasn’t like the rest of us, but could make the grumpiest of grumps smile because her love of life and underlying happiness was so infectious.
The message here is that all of us have opportunity to give sacrificially to
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
WE NEVER THOUGHT WE WERE POOR
Eddie Ogan
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I’ll never forget Christmas 1946. I was 14, my little sister Ocy was 12 and my older sister Darlene was 16. We lived at home with our mother, and the four of us knew what it was to do without many things. My dad had died five years before,
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 27, 2025
[179]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – LOST THREE THINGS - LOST ONE COIN
In this trilogy of poems we are looking at three objects lost – a sheep, a coin and a son. All three were loved and precious and the owners knew stress at the lost. When each was found it resulted in great rejoicing.
These three
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 13, 2003
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STORY NUMBER ONE
Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago. Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder. Capone had a lawyer nicknamed "Easy Eddie." He was his lawyer for a good
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