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Church Signs from beliefnet.com
"Beat the Christmas rush, come to church this Sunday!"
"Don’t wait for the hearse to take you to church."
"Don’t give up. Moses was once a basket case."
"Life has many choices. Eternity has two. What’s yours?"
"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is
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Charles Swindoll says, ¡§To walk by faith does not mean that we stop thinking. To trust God does not imply becoming slovenly or lazy or apathetic. What a distortion of biblical faith! You and I need to trust God for our finances, but that is no license to spend foolishly. You and I ought to trust
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Contributed by Roz Mason on Jan 14, 2003
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Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
A number of years ago one of the young men in my youth group bought a 1956 Ford pick-up truck. It didn’t run at the time and hasn’t since. He was going to fix the truck up and started to accumulate
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Methodist
Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Jan 14, 2003
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I had my son’s 7th grade reading book at home this past week and I read a story written by Clifton Davis. You might know Clifton from the TV show entitled Amen. Clifton found success starring as the Reverend on the sitcom from the 1980’s.
It wasn’t success, however, that Clifton was encountering
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sean Smuts on Jan 15, 2003
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Feel the Nails by Ray Boltz
Does He still feel those nails
Every time I fail
Does He hear the crowd cry
crucify again and again
Am I causing Him pain
Then I know I’ve
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Mennonite
Contributed by Paul Kallan on Jan 17, 2003
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Some years ago, there was a very famous film star, MG Ramachandran by name, in Tamil Nadu in India. In his films he always acted as a fighter of injustice and a saviour of the poor, the helpless and the oppressed. He was the saviour who wiped the tears of misery and showed the helpless the way to
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Catholic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2003
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GIVING AWAY GOODNESS
Mark Tidd of Webster, New York, describes an experience from his college days:
“An old man showed up at the back door of the house we were renting. Opening the door a few cautious inches, we saw his eyes were glassy and his furrowed face glistened with silver stubble. He
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 30, 2003
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Working with Buddy:
An out-of-towner drove his car into a ditch in a desolated area. Luckily, a local farmer came to help with his big strong horse named Buddy.
He hitched Buddy up to the car and yelled, "Pull, Nellie, pull!" Buddy didn’t move.
Then the farmer hollered, "Pull, Buster, pull!"
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Contributed by Dan Steadman on Feb 14, 2003
The famed English writer, Charles Kingsley, once wrote, "If you wish to be miserable, you must think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, and what respect people ought to pay you. Then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil
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Contributed by Mike Hamilton on Feb 27, 2003
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Illustration: A lady was out hitting all the local garage sales when she came across an old needlepoint picture that read, “Prayer Changes Lives.” She bought it, took it home and began to look for just the right place to hang the new picture. Finally, she decided that it went well in the dinning
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Baptist
Contributed by Pieter Botes on Mar 1, 2003
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Wabush, a town in a remote portion of Labrador, Canada, was completely isolated for some time. But recently a road was cut through the wilderness to reach it. Wabush now has one road leading into it, and thus, only on one road leading out. If someone would travel the unpaved road for six to eight
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Darrell Jones on Mar 1, 2003
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Living Thief.
A minister tells the story of a preacher who asked a man why he did not join the church..The reply was that the dying thief did not join the church and he was saved. "Well," said the minister, "if you do not belong to a church, perhaps you help by supporting missions?" "No," said the
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 4, 2003
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Two friends were walking in the forest one day when suddenly they stumbled upon a large grizzly bear who decided that they looked like a good snack. The two started running away when all of the sudden one of them stopped. The other said, "What are you stopping for? Don’t you know the grizzly bear
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Contributed by David Dykes on Mar 31, 2003
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Faith is the first step you must take to receive mercy from God. Faith is not just believing God exists, it is acting on that belief. It is staking your entire eternity on the offer God
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Hensley on Apr 3, 2003
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Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end.
Yet days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it a year is gone,
And I never see my old friend’s face;
For life is a swift and terrible race.
He knows I like him just as well
As in the days when I rang his bell
And
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Baptist
Contributed by Troy Borst on May 28, 2003
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What is the church?
Russ Blowers is a minister who is active in his local Indianapolis Rotary club. At club meetings each week a member gives a brief statement about his job. When it was his turn, Russ said: "I’m with a global enterprise. We have branches in every country in the world. We have
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jun 4, 2003
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James Moore tells the story in “Attitude Is Your Paintbrush” of a
young orphaned boy who had been taken to his grandmother’s house. The house caught fire one night. The grandmother tried to rescue the little boy, but was overcome by smoke and died in the disaster. As the fire blazed, a crowd
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Baptist
Contributed by Eric Bland on Jun 20, 2003
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About six months ago my son Caleb began to walk. He quickly went from a staggering walk to a run. Now he is twenty months old and anyone who has kids knows at that age they become pretty brave, so now he is jumping off of anything that elevates him, whether it is jumping off of books or stools or
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