Contributed by Myron Loss on Jun 9, 2006
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Bishop Asbury was a circuit-riding, Methodist preacher who lit gospel fires all across the American frontier, and who was no stranger to hardship and suffering.
Asbury suffered from one chronic ailment after another, so much so that one biographer calls him a "Job of old on horseback." Migraine
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 22, 2007
Back in 1990, I was a tenant residing in a compound where the landlord and his family were also enclosed. The landlord and the tenants respected my family since they understood my position as a minister and servant of God. He allowed the believers to have their weekly fellowships within his
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Chris Surber on Oct 31, 2007
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I remember one day when I was about 10 or 11 years old and I had decided to go all the way across town to my grandmother’s house one summer afternoon. It was a scorching hot day in Northern California and I had about 6 miles to walk to my grandmother’s house because my bicycle had a flat tire.
I
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Christian Church
BIBLE: LIFE SUPPORT
I didn’t always go to church; in fact, I didn’t start attending anywhere regularly until I was in the ninth grade. But I wasn’t exactly a stranger to church. Occasionally, this friend or that one would invite me to go to Sunday School.
I remember one time -- I must have been
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Chad Ballard on Apr 9, 2002
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This week, I read a beautiful legend about a king who decided to set aside a special day to honor his greatest subject. When the big day arrived, there was a large gathering in the palace courtyard. Four finalists were brought forward, and from these four, the king would select the winner.
The
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 10, 2003
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OUR SALVATION “LORICA”—COMMUNION MEDIATION
A lorica was an ancient piece of armor that acted like a breastplate to shield its wearer from physical danger. But to the Celts of early Ireland, a lorica was also an oral chant that the pagan Druid magicians believed invoked magical powers of
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On the lighter side of life:
From the book: Wacky Laws, Weird Decisions and Strange Statues, Main Street publishers.
Marriage and Family laws:
a. It’s against the law for children under the age of seven to go to college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
b. Although there are no R and X ratings for
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Nov 10, 2007
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ILLUSTRATION : Martyrdom of Zewar, Christian taxi driver in Northern Iraq.
After hostilities ceased in the Iraq war on the 9th of April 2003, an Open Doors team went to the country two weeks later. They visited church leaders primarily to tell them that we were praying for them, and were ready to
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Other
Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 27, 2003
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In my study for the Fishers of Men series I came across an essay written by A. J. McClane called, “The Song of the Angler.” In this essay he examines why fishermen fish.
1. People fish for each others company, for the fellowship. Able to share in a common activity. People fish for the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
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Some fun hearing what kids think about husbands and wives.
HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY?
Alan, age 10—You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming.
Kirsten, age 10—No person
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Tim Smith on Aug 13, 2017
One morning in December 2009, Bill McDonald read in the paper that a local man, Joe Day, was sick with small-cell lung cancer. That meant Day couldn’t assemble the magnificently lit, handcrafted Christmas displays that had made his house in Versailles, Indiana, an annual holiday pilgrimage site for
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Methodist