Contributed by Steve Malone on Feb 4, 2003
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Mark Buchanan writes the following in, Your God Is Too Safe,
The Lord is deeply and passionately committed to our joy. Where did we get the idea that religion is a stiff, dull, flat business, all pursed lips and knitted brows and gloomy outlooks? Where did we get that portrait of the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 22, 2005
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Out of parental concern and a desire to teach our young son responsibility, we require him to phone home when he arrives at his friend?s house a few blocks away. He began to forget, however, as he grew more confident in his ability to get there without disaster befalling him. The first time he
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Contributed by Darryl Bell on Apr 17, 2006
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In China police and Public Security Bureau (PSB) officers raided the home of a Christian we’ll call “Ling.” “When the officers entered, they found ample amounts of contraband: Bibles, Christian literature, … and other Christian materials. But what was more troubling in their eyes than the large
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Scott Chambers on Apr 23, 2007
In James Michener’s “Hawaii”, Nyuk Tsin Kee stands before the officer in her examination for United States citizenship. She has relentlessly driven herself to prepare for this exam. More than anything else, she wants to become a citizen of America. But now she is strangely silent. When the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
When Jane fell in love with Richard, she knew had found her prince. At six feet three inches, Richard, 195 pounds was as lean and muscular at age twenty-three as they had been when Jane admired him on the basket ball court in high school. Ruggedly handsome, Richard was the strong silent type, which
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Adventist
Contributed by Mike Rexroat on Nov 5, 2007
The story is told of an expert tightrope walker whose tightrope was extended across Niagara Falls. Of course, to fall from this rope would mean instant destruction. Balancing his long pole lightly, he steps upon the rope and starts across. The crowd is silent. Finally he triumphantly places his
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Nov 19, 2007
Powerful.”
Richard Selzer, MD, writes in his book Mortal Lessons,
I stand by the bed where a young woman lies, her face postoperative, her mouth twisted in palsy, clownish. A tiny twig of the facial nerve, the one to the muscles of her mouth, has been severed. She till be thus from now on. The
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Church Of God
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Mark was a 10 year old boy who never misbehaved or caused problems at school. But unfortunately he never made very good grades in spelling.
One day during a spelling test he was tempted to copy off of Jane, who always made straight “A’s” in spelling. Even though Mark was a Christian, and knew
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Opperman on Dec 28, 2007
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-Author Ken Jones tells about a lesson he learned about hearing God:
[When I walked into my office] I noticed something I had never seen before. It was round, about the size of a dessert plate, and plugged into the wall, giving out a constant noise. It wasn’t a loud noise, just constant. What in
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Jul 23, 2008
DON'T WAIT
Allison was an upbeat, enthusiastic teen. She was positive, eager, and energetic. She was one of the teens in my group and was always a joy. It was terrible the day I got the call about her dad.
Allison’s dad died suddenly of a massive heart attack sitting in his office at work one
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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MVP PRAISES GOD FOR WORLD SERIES
A number of years ago, Orel Hershiser was pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers. They had just won the World Series, and Orel had been named "The most valuable player of the series." One of the TV shows about the series showed him in the dugout just before the 9th
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Allison was an upbeat, enthusiastic teen. She was positive, eager, and energetic. She was one of the teens in my group and was always a joy. It was terrible the day I got the call about her dad.
Allison’s dad died suddenly of a massive heart attack sitting in his office at work one day. I got
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
Talk About Doing Good, or Do Good
In A Pretty Good Person, Lewis Smedes wrote:
A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public school to African-American children. The white parents decided that, if they had to let black children in, they would keep their children out. They let it
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Contributed by Steve Gallimore on Dec 14, 2008
On January 8, 1956 Jim Elliot, along with four other missionaries was killed while trying to bring this Good News of Christ to the Waodoni people of the Auca Indians in Ecuador. In his journal published in a book titled SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY, Jim wrote these words:
“One doesn’t learn to speak a
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
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WESLEY'S PEACE
Although Charles Wesley had been engaged in preaching the gospel with much diligence and earnestness, he did not know what it was to enjoy peace with God until he was in his thirtieth year. Being laid low by an alarming illness, and seeming as if he were going to die, a young
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Jan 5, 2009
NO TOYS FOR SISTER
Two-year-old Sarah and her 13-year-old sister who had been fighting a lot. Sarah’s parents, trying to take advantage of her newfound interest in Santa Claus, reminded the two-year-old that Santa was watching and doesn’t like it when children fight. This had little impact.
"I’ll
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Salvation Army
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