Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 18, 2008
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Temptation comes to us all, whether we’re in the pew or the pulpit! It can be pride in our Christian service in whatever form it takes, even, or perhaps especially, in preaching! The well-known evangelist of few decades ago, Smith Wigglesworth descended a pulpit and responded
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Contributed by Mark Opperman on Jan 21, 2008
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-Barnabas was seeing so many people come to Jesus that he knew he needed more help. So, he set out for Tarsus (probably on foot) to find Saul. Tarsus was 100 miles around the NE corner of the Mediterranean Sea from Antioch. It probably took him a few days to get there. Why did he go to all that
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 27, 2008
Jesus didn't come to burden us with a list of rules and regulations and things that holy people do and don't do. Oh, he still calls us to be holy but not according to some manmade list: don't drink, don't ever go into a bar or a pub, don't go to movies, don't play cards, don't wear this clothing,
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 13, 2009
Criminals come from all walks of life: rich, poor, black, white, educated, and uneducated. Background makes little difference. However the common link between them all is a thinking pattern. For many years people thought that the problem was the criminal’s environment. In the book, The Criminal
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Aug 6, 2025
[154]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – JESUS CHRIST MY LORD
This is a factual poem about Jesus Christ the Lord. I won’t list all the things I said in the poem. Read through and see them as you go.
Jesus is my Lord but only those who have surrendered to Him can say that. {{John 13:13 “You call Me
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Contributed by Bruce Ball on Oct 24, 2005
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Cowboy Joe was had just come back from going to church for the first time, and was in the bunkhouse telling the other cowhands about his experience.
He said, “When I got there, I parked my pick-me-up in the corral. Charlie, a worldly cowboy said, “That would be the parking lot, Joe.”
Joe
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Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 15, 2009
When I first came to Geneva, I was struck by how many attractive older women there are here. I thought they must have been strikingly beautiful as young women. When we had our 40th anniversary, I got to see pictures of our lovely women. They were all attractive, still I realized that they had grown
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A little boy came home from his first day at school. His Mother asked him, "Well, what did you learn today?" He said, "Not
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Aug 7, 2007
Whom God would destroy, He first makes blind. There comes a point in the rising tide of human wickedness, where God acts. In preparation he blinds.
John Phillips, Exploring
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 2, 2025
[042] A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – CHRIST IN ME AND I IN HIM
I meant this to be a personal, yet touching poem. The title – Christ in me and I in Him” can be taken as a one-way dialogue between two people, the Lord and me. I am sharing with my Saviour the thoughts in my mind. (A personal chat).
On
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Contributed by John Stevenson on Dec 26, 2004
When we first came to Jesus, we might not have understood just how big He is. We came to see a winsome Galilean rabbi, but we found that He is so much more.
C.S. Lewis makes this point in his Chronicles of Narnia when Lucy returns to the magic land and sees Aslan, the Christ figure.
"Aslan," said
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Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 12, 2000
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My brother served his first parish in Massillion, Ohio, as an associate pastor, with the late Pastor Maurice "Mo" White. Pastor White was a very large, strong and vibrant man. During one Lenten season, one of the older, but faithful members of the church came with her husband to an evening Lenten
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Dec 29, 2000
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A SCHOOL TEACHER asked her first graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these children from poor neighborhoods actually had to be thankful for. She reasoned that most of them would no doubt draw pictures of turkeys on tables with lots of other
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 27, 2000
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I read an amusing story about the first Duke of Wellington. An inventor was trying to interest him in a bulletproof waistcoat he had made. It was absolutely marvellous and could save the great man’s life if somebody tried to assassinate him. The Iron Duke asked the man to put it on, and he
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