Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 5, 2001
Chuck Swindoll reports that a seminary student in Chicago faced a forgiveness test. Although he preferred to work in some kind of ministry, the only job he could find was driving a bus on Chicago’s south side. One day a gang of tough teens got on board and refused to pay the fare. After a few days
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Contributed by Charles Salmon on Feb 3, 2003
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The Republican Methodist Church began on Christmas Day, 1793 in Manikintown Virginia. It was formed by several Methodist congregations who rebelled against the Methodist Episcopal form of government brought from England. Soon. There were several thousand members and whole congregations had joined
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Well-known commentator and author Eric Sevarid said that the best lesson he ever learned was the principle of the "next mile." He recalled how he learned the principle:
During World War II, I and several others had to parachute from a crippled Army transport plane into the mountainous jungle on the
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on May 3, 2008
SUBMISSION IS A TWO-WAY STREET
Several years ago, while ministering in Florida, I was about to speak in chapel for our Church’s preschool, and my wife was supposed to lead singing. But it was time to start and Deb was on the phone, and I became impatient. So, when I went out to the auditorium, our
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Contributed by Chad Moore on Aug 21, 2009
OBJECT LESSON IDEA: We used boxes on stage and labeled several of them with words that explain how experienced in our lives hurt us. When we put a box between ourselves and those who want to love us
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THE MACHINE WEARS OUT
President Woodrow Wilson experienced the devastation of World War I, he suffered a stroke which severely weakened him, 3 years after leaving office he died. His last words were, "The machinery
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Baptist
Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Dec 14, 2002
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During the long war years a boy looked frequently at a picture of his daddy on the table. His father had left for Europe when the boy was a young infant. After several years the boy had forgotten him as a person but he would often look at the
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Contributed by Juan Lane on Nov 26, 2005
And unless you’re an expert in denial, living within your means is essential to your mental health. According to a survey by credit counseling firm Myvesta.org, about 40 percent of people with problem debt reported symptoms of severe depression. (By contrast,
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Over the years Pastor Mitchell has prayed for a lot of people and one of the things that he began to notice several years ago was the amount of children that were brought to him for prayer that were deaf in only one ear. What he began to find out was that many of these
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
“Not long after a wealthy contractor had finished building the Tombs prison in New York, he was found guilty of forgery and sentenced to several years in the prison he built! As he was escorted into a cell of his own making the
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 25, 2008
My wife and I were watching the gorillas at the zoo when several of them charged at the enclosure fence, scattering the crowd, except for one elderly man. Later, my wife asked him how he had kept his composure. "I used
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Nov 29, 2001
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Dr. George Sweeting tells a story about the tragedy of addictions. One day he watched several blocks of ice floating down a river at Niagara Falls. Curiously, several birds floated above water looking for fish. One sea gull spotted a fish frozen in one of the blocks of ice that was hurling speedily
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 19, 2006
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In the autobiography of George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. Soon after he became a Christian he was called up to do his National Service in the Royal Air Force. He writes that the first test of his Christian discipleship was to follow the advice of his vicar which he found quite
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Wesleyan
Chuck Swindoll once told the story of a seminary student in Chicago who faced a forgiveness test.
Although he preferred to work in some kind of ministry, the only job he could find was driving a bus on Chicago's south side.
One day a gang of tough teens got on board and refused to pay the
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational