Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Apr 17, 2006
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Max Lucado tells the story of a youngster who was shooting rocks with a slingshot. He could never hit his target. As he returned to Grandma’s backyard, he spied her pet duck. On impulse he took aim and let fly. The stone hit, and the duck was dead. The boy panicked and hid the bird in the woodpile,
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Those who call themselves “Pagans” describe their faith as a “modern faith recently reconstructed from beliefs, deities, symbols, practices, and other elements of ancient religion. Some of the main examples of this pagan revival include the following:
• Druids: base their religion on the faith
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Contributed by George Rhodes on Apr 19, 2006
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An Arab chief tells a story of a spy who was captured and then sentenced to death by a general in the Persian army. This general had the strange custom of giving condemned criminals a choice between the firing squad and the big, black door. As the moment for execution drew near, the spy was brought
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Contributed by John Shearhart on May 14, 2006
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There was a little boy who built a sailboat. He built the sail and had it all fixed up, tarred and painted. He took it to the lake and pushed it in hoping it would sail. Sure enough a wisp of breeze filled the little sail and it billowed and went rippling along the waves. Suddenly before the little
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on May 30, 2006
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There’s story about an atheist who traveled around giving lectures at colleges and universities.
At one of these lectures, he gave the challenge he gave every time. “If there’s a God, I challenge him to strike me down in the next 5 minutes.”
Of course, the time went by and the tensions rose,
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Steve Holmes on Jun 10, 2006
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Voltaire, the noted French writer, who died in 1778, said that in
one hundred years from his time Christianity would be swept from existence. Only fifty
years after Voltaire’s death, the Geneva
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Contributed by Alan Tison on Jun 22, 2006
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E. Stanley Jones tells of a missionary who was lost in an African jungle, nothing around him but bush and a few cleared places. Finally he found a hut and asked the owner if he could get him out. The native said he could.
“All right,” said the missionary, “show me the way.”
The native said,
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
A Note written by one of the miners who died in the West Virginia mining accident was made public. ‘Tell all I’ll see them on the other side," family members say one scrawled note, found with the body of 51-year-old mine foreman
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 27, 2006
"The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will begin to reflect your true identity!"
(From Victory
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Wesleyan
Jon Gordon – America’s Energy Coach, who was recently on CNN, tells how he came to Christ. He says, “I grew up Jewish and followed the new age path for awhile but found it unfulfilling. After becoming a speaker and author I tried to break into speaking in all the non-Christian conferences but was
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Clayton White on Nov 17, 2006
There once was a little boy who wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his backpack with cupcakes, several cans of root beer and started on his journey to meet God.
When he had gone about three blocks, he saw an elderly woman sitting on a park bench
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Methodist
Contributed by Toby Powers on Nov 20, 2006
There was a little girl who grew up in a very poor farming family back in the 1930’s. They had but one old worn out cow, and they sold most of the milk and dairy products that they were able to generate from her to purchase the necessities of life. They would only retain a few little of the milk
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Baptist
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A story is told of a teacher who asked a class of students, ‘What would you wish for if you had one wish?”
One enthusiastic student shouted out, “Mama, I would wish for a big house for my family and myself.”
Another student proudly stood up and said, “I would wish for lots of land, to plant an
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Adventist
Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 12, 2007
I cannot remember who said, maybe it was Lincoln, but a well-known leader made the remark that he hoped not that God was
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jan 19, 2007
The story is told about a farmer who caught a young eagle and placed it with his chickens. The eaglet ate with them and soon adopted itself to their ways. One day a friend was visiting the farm and noticed the eagle with the chickens in the barnyard. He said to the farmer, “What’s that eagle
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Doug Lyon on Feb 14, 2007
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Pastor Charles Stanley—who is an author and Bible teacher—tells this story from his seminary days. He writes: “One of my most memorable seminary professors had a practical way of illustrating the concept of grace for his students. At the end of his evangelism course he would hand out the exam
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
84% of abortion-minded women who received an ultrasound at a pregnancy resource center did not
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