Contributed by Bradley  Kellum on Aug 11, 2009
                
                
                
                    When a storm comes into a Christian’s life, the Christian has two choices.  They can PRAY or they can STRAY.  Praying draws you closer to
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Oct 23, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Stay on the Path
On vacation I hiked a pass overlooking the Loyalsock Creek in the mountains of Pennsylvania. It was a difficult incline that I estimate in many places to have been sixty degrees. There was a stern warning at the head of the trail that you should not stray from the path. As I
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Francis on May 19, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dietrich Bonhoeffer says it like this; "The path of discipleship is narrow, and it is fatally easy to miss one’s way and stray from the path, even after years of discipleship. And it is
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 20, 2007
                
                
                
                    A lady visiting the Holy Land came upon a sheepfold located high on a hilltop. Her attention was drawn to one poor sheep lying by the side of the road bleating in pain. Looking more closely, she discovered that its leg was injured. She asked the shepherd how it happened. 
"I had to break it
                    
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                    Contributed by Tyler Edwards on May 26, 2009
                
                
                
                    Sheep need fresh pasture and water daily and in the desserts of Palestine that can be no easy task.  A shepherd will search for water sometimes for hours every day.  He carries a pail with him that he will fill over and over again for any sheep who cannot access the water.  A shepherd will lead his
                    
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                    At home I have an 18th century commentary on the Gospels.  I turned to the place which mentions the story of the lost sheep and it says “A sheep, once it has strayed away, is a creature remarkably stupid and heedless; it goes wandering on without any power or inclination to return back, though each
                    
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                    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Jun 22, 2007
                
                
                
                    *ILLUSTRATION*
On October 31, 1983, a Korean airliner departed on a flight from Anchorage, Alaska to Seoul, South Korea.
Unknown to the flight crew, the flight navigation system computer contained a degree-and-a-half routing error.
At the point of takeoff it was unnoticeable, but as the 747 flew
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    LEFTOVERS ARE SUCH HUMBLE THINGS, WE WOULD NOT SERVE TO A GUEST,AND YET WE SERVE THEM TO OUR LORD, WHO DESERVES THE VERY BEST. WE GIVE TO HIM LEFTOVER TIME, STRAY MINUTES HERE AND THERE. LEFTOVER CASH WE GIVE TO HIM, SUCH FEW COINS AS WE CAN SPARE.
WE GIVE OUR YOUTH UNTO THE WORLD, TO HATRED, LUST
                    
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                    Contributed by George Rennau on Sep 9, 2006
                
                
                
                    Fontella Bass grew up in the church singing gospel music, and serving the Lord.  Eventually her marvelous voice led her into a singing career. 
In 1965 her No. 1 R&B single "Rescue Me" placed her among the greatest.
But she was a one hit wonder. 
Twenty-five years later Fontella was facing the
                    
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                    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Sep 15, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A few years ago I was reading a book by Stephen Gaukroger. He tells the story of a New York Methodist minister who saw the need to bring his ‘ninety nine righteous’ sheep back into the fold.  He put an advert in the local paper:
“Lost, stolen or strayed; a large flock of Methodist sheep.  They
                    
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                    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 5, 2009
                
                
                
                    Church- a poem by James Blankinship
I think that I shall never see, 
A church that’s all it ought to be;
A church whose members never stray, 
Beyond the straight and narrow way.
A church that has no empty pews, 
Whose preacher never has the blues;
Where elders ‘eld’ and deacons ‘deek’ 
And none is
                    
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