Contributed by Evie Megginson on Oct 1, 2001
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According to a Baptist Press release, 16 year old Jennifer Cody attended a youth camp in July 1987, sponsored by the Southern Baptists. She had missed the registration deadline at The Church on Mill in Tempe, Arizona, where she attended, but a boy canceled his and that made it possible for her to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 6, 2002
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THE VALLEY OF HELL
It may or may not surprise you to know that the person in the bible who spoke the most often (and in the most graphic terms) about hell, was not one of the fiery Old-Testament prophets, or John the author of Revelation, but Jesus himself. 12 times in the gospels Jesus talks in
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Contributed by Aaron Burgess on Oct 7, 2002
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Billy Graham, the great evangelist, tells of driving through a small southern town and being stopped by a policeman and being charged with speeding. Graham admitted his quilt, but was told by the officer that he would have to appear in court. The judge asked, "Guilty, or not guilty?" When Graham
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Church Growth: According to the 2003 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church experienced a 12% growth. Catholics followed with a 2.5% increase, while Mormons and the Assemblies of God each reported 2% growth in ‘01, the latest year for which figures
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Contributed by Dan Mahan on Feb 26, 2007
Rev. R.S. Jones was a missionary to Brazil. He had many years of Christian service. In 1936, he was retiring due to ill health. At the Southern Baptist Convention that year, this missionary was talking to the songwriter BB McKinney. Jones told McKinney that his doctor would not let him return to
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LESSONS FROM A BANANA TREE
I once learned an interesting lessons from a retired pastor who grew banana trees in his backyard. Bananas will grow in our hot and humid Southern Illinois summers. But the season isn't long enough for them to produce much fruit. Some people tried to overcome this by
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 26, 2011
ALABAMA JUDGE: CHURCH OR JAIL
Is going to church a privilege or a sentence? It depends upon you and the particular church. For some in Alabama, it is a sentence:
BAY MINETTE, Ala. (AP) — Authorities say non-violent offenders in southern Alabama will have a new choice: Go to jail, or go to church
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 4, 2007
Various Christian groups have been helping flooded areas recently. Here is an August 29, 2007 report:
"ROCHESTER, Minn. (BP)--More than 570 disaster relief volunteers from the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention and eight other states are working long hours to aid victims affected by recent
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THE GREAT OMISSION
Dallas Willard is a professor at the University of Southern California's School of Philosophy. He is also a Christian lay person. And he writes books. Lots of books. One of his books is entitled The Great Omission. And what he does in that book is this: he shows how the church
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Contributed by Stephan Brown on Mar 11, 2002
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In warfare, there is always an objective. In many wars, the objective is land. For example, in the Middle East, Israel and the Palestinians are fighting because they both want to have the same land. In Afghanistan we’re fighting because we want to destroy the power base of terrorism. Hitler fought
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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When Hudson Taylor went to China, he made the voyage on a sailing vessel. As it neared the channel between the southern Malay Peninsula and the island of Sumatra, the missionary heard an urgent knock on his stateroom door. He opened it, and there stood the captain of the ship. "Mr. Taylor," he
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2003
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SOMETIMES THEY GO TO HEAVEN
The city of Oceanside, in Southern California, is feeling a bit empty these days because it is located near Camp Pendleton, the US Marine base that has recently shipped many of it’s young Marines away to fight in the war in Iraq.
The town seems empty, but its store
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In Chapter 5 Randy CLarks book Evangelism Unleashed he sites examples of “Power Evangelism” from the great American Revivals:
1. The Second Great Awakening and the Cane Ridge Revival:
a. He states, “As in the First Great Awakening, power encounters such as falling, shaking, groaning, shouting,
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
Canadian poet John McCrae was a surgeon in World War I. On December 8, 1915, he published this poem to commemorate the deaths of thousands of young men who died in Flanders during the grueling battles there.
Flanders covered southern Belgium and northwest France.)
Legend has it that he was
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 11, 2009
“Why the Dead Sea?”
We have heard of dead people, dead beasts, dead trees and dead flowers, but is there such a thing as a dead sea? There is and they call it dead because it receives all and gives nothing. This body of water – the most remarkable in the world – is at the southern end of the
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Contributed by Ferdinand Funk on Sep 26, 2008
A Friend Like Pee Wee Reese
Willie Morris says that gestures often speak more eloquently than words.
In his first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play major league baseball, faced venom nearly everywhere he traveled -- fastballs were aimed at his head,
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Contributed by Mack Armstrong on Mar 19, 2008
John Wilkes Booth was a die hard American. His sympathy was with the Southern cause. Slavery was only a side line to the many who opposed the Union in the years leading up to the Civil War. The real issue was the rights of individual states to conduct their business under the umbrella of a national
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Methodist
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