Contributed by Dennis Jones on Feb 23, 2003
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A small boy was in his sand box playing and digging in the sand. He finally struck a rock as he dug in deeper. He kept on digging and found it to be a huge rock that he could barely move. He struggled and fought to get the rock out of the box. With one final effort he used all his strength to
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Contributed by Matthew Doebler on Apr 16, 2003
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During World War II, a young paratrooper, David Webster of E Company, 101st Airborne wrote his mother, “Stop worrying about me. I joined the parachutists to fight. I intend to fight. If necessary, I shall die fighting, but don’t worry about this because no war can be won without young men
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Lutheran
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jul 11, 2003
One year, a tree on the campus of Green Acres Elementary School, near Santa Cruz, California, bore strange fruit–mostly sandwiches, but sometimes a cookie, a cupcake, an apple or an orange. It came into full bearing from a seed planted by teachers Sophie Farrar and Sandra Enz, who were appalled at
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Michael King on Jul 20, 2003
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In his retirement, Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. Because
Jefferson trusted that students would take their studies seriously, the code of
discipline was lax. Unfortunately, his trust proved misplaced when the misbehavior
of students led to a riot in which professors who tried
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Baptist
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Oct 25, 2003
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A pilot's flying over a mountainous terrain, and as he's flying, he looks down to see two vehicles driving down the highway.
The first vehicle is a semi-trailer, pulling his load up and down that ol' highway. The second vehicle is a sports car driven by a guy who's got better things to do than be
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Contributed by James O. Davis on Oct 28, 2003
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More than 100 years ago, a soul-winning training conference was being held in the City of Indianapolis. While the preacher and parishioners inside the auditorium were learning how to the reach the masses, an evangelist outside on a street corner was preaching the good news. He preached under the
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Clark Tanner on Nov 3, 2003
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"In the Clint Eastwood movie "High Plains Difter", Clint was coming up against a whole town of people who had a dark secret they thought they had safely hidden, but he knew their secret and was about to expose them. A woman he was with warned him that the people were afraid, and she said, “that
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Orthodox
Contributed by Tony Abram on Nov 18, 2003
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After my conversion, we moved to Vernon, British Columbia. Desiring to attend Sunday School, my six-year-old sister and I ventured out to find the church, which we were told, was only three blocks away. However, we soon discovered that we were lost and on the main street of the city.
I remember
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 22, 2004
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My friend,who was living at the time in Israel had a white dove come to nest in the eves of his house which both he and his wife considered to be significent in that they thought it might be God’s seal of aproval on their new home.
After some little time my friend asked his wife if she had noticed
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Contributed by Dana Visneskie on Apr 23, 2004
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At a meeting of the American Psychological Association, Jack Lipton, a psychologist at Union College, and R. Scott Builione, a graduate student at Columbia University, presented their findings on how members of the various sections of 11 major symphony orchestra perceived each other. The
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Pentecostal
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I remember during the first war against Iraq a number of books hit the shelves tying the events of the war to the prophecies of the Bible. Imminent theologians staked their reputations on works tying the Middle East conflict of 1991 to the beginning of the end. According to their complex
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004
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One rainy day a young mother and her seven-year-old boy were driving through one of the main streets of their town. Little Matthew seemed to be pondering something as he stared at the windshield wipers doing their repetitious work. “Mom,” Matthew said. “I’ve been thinking about something.”
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 28, 2004
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Finding Rage/Anger
I wanted to find out what the Bible had to say about ’rage’ so I went to an on-line Bible search program and typed in ’rage’. Up came 153 selections. I thought, "wow, the Bible has a lot of rage in it." But then as I began to read I noticed I not only had ’rage’ but I also had
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How do we repent? I want to show you a great example of repentance from a recent film. Jim Carey, in the film Bruce Almighty, finally comes to the end of himself and surrenders to God in prayer. His prayer is a good model to follow. (Show clip) As Bruce kneels he says to God, “You win. I’m
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Methodist
Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jul 16, 2004
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We are told that in the prairies of South America there grows a flower that always inclines in the same direction. The traveler may lose his way while crossing one of those prairies, and he may have neither compass nor chart by which to steer his course; but, turning to this lovely flower, he will
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 6, 2004
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They were sitting on the back porch of the parsonage and the man said, "Pastor, I’ve got something to tell you. I’ve never told this to a soul, it’s extremely difficult to tell you this now, but my wife and I have had a fight almost every day for the past 30 years of our marriage."
The pastor was
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Contributed by David Elvery on Nov 14, 2004
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When Queen Victoria of England reigned as Empress of India, the Maharajah of Punjab was a little boy. To show his allegiance, he sent her a magnificent diamond. It became one of the crown jewels and was safely kept in the Tower of London. When he became a man, he went to London to pay his
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Contributed by Andrew Chan on Dec 1, 2004
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This reminds me of this story (Alex Domokos of Winnipeg told in Readers Digest, Dec. 2004):
My mother, a teacher, was having a hard time settling on a suitable role for one of her students in the Grade 3 Christmas pageant. Finally, she decided he should be the innkeeper, a role she felt he could
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Evangelical Free
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