Contributed by Mark Perryman on May 10, 2006
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A stranger was walking down a residential street and noticed a man struggling with a washing machine at the doorway of his house. When the newcomer volunteered to help, the homeowner was overjoyed, and the two men together began to work and struggle with the bulky appliance. After several minutes
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Contributed by James Pless on Jun 6, 2006
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11581. Billy Sunday Fights Sin
Billy Sunday, the baseball evangelist and reformer, never spared himself nor those he wanted to help in the vigor of his attacks on sin. He thundered against evil from the Gay Nineties through the Great Depression. He preached Christ as the only answer to man’s needs
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
Oscar Cervantes is a dramatic example of Christ’s power to transform lives. As a child, Oscar began to get into trouble. Then as he got older, he was jailed 17 times for brutal crimes. Prison psychiatrists said he was beyond help. But they were wrong! During a brief interval of freedom, Oscar met
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
People can be very forgetful about important things.
The great British preacher Charles Spurgeon once wrote: A man goes into an inn, and as soon as he sits down he begins to order…his dinner, his bed…He stays at the inn for some time. By and by, the bill comes due, and it takes him by surprise. "I
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 15, 2007
Ravi Zacharias tells of visiting a used bookstore. While he was there, wistfully searching through the classics, suddenly a man burst in and demanded in a loud voice, "How much for 128 feet of books?" The owner, having never sold scholarship by the foot, didn’t know exactly how to reply.
The
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Contributed by Tom Conant on Apr 3, 2009
You don’t really own your possessions, they own you. Dog lovers don’t take offense. Nobody owns a dog! Ever wonder why dog’s are man’s best friend? If someone waited on you hand and foot, gave you food and drink whenever you wanted it, played with you when you were energetic, walked you when
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 25, 2010
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HESED
Proverbs 20:6 records: "Many a man claims to have hesed, but a faithful man, who can find?"
Not only is a person with hesed truthful, he is also faithful. The proverb indicates that many people may claim to have hesed for you, but only a very few will demonstrate it by actually remaining
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Dec 31, 2010
DAVID BRAINERD: SPIRITUAL MESSENGER
Tomahawks in hand, the Indians crept toward the strange tent. As they cautiously peered under the flap, their intention to kill was forgotten. There, in the center of the tent was a man on his knees. As he prayed, a rattlesnake crossed his feet and paused in
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TIME TO A PIG
Reminds me of a man who was walking past a farm, and noticed a farmer feeding pigs in a most extraordinary manner. The farmer would lift a pig up to a nearby apple tree, and the pig would eat the apples off the tree directly. The farmer would move the pig from one apple to another
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Aug 13, 2012
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SPIT
Now why did Jesus spit in the blind man’s eyes? This is similar to another time when he spit in some dust and made clay, with which he anointed blind eyes (Mark 7:33). If a modern evangelist or missionary followed Jesus’ example in this, how well received would it
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