Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 26, 2007
In a Peanuts cartoon strip, Charlie Brown says to Linus, "Life is just too much for me. I’ve been confused from the day I was born. I think the whole trouble is that we’re thrown into life too fast. We’re not really
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 12, 2007
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Misplaced Faith
Philip Yancey, in his book Disappointment With God, writes:
Even back then I was searching for hard evidence of God as an alternative to faith. And one day I found it—on television, of all places. While randomly flipping a dial, I came across a mass healing service being conducted
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Contributed by Jeffery Russell on Dec 24, 2007
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Dr. James Dobson relates a story of an elderly woman named Stella Thornhope who was struggling with her first Christmas alone. Her husband had died just a few months prior through a slow developing cancer. Now, several days before Christmas, she was almost snowed in by a brutal weather system. She
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 20, 2008
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Christmas can still arrive when you least expect it, sometimes in the most unexpected manner. Dr. James Dobson relates a story of an elderly woman named Stella Thornhope who was struggling with her first Christmas alone. Her husband had died just a few months prior through a slow developing cancer.
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Feb 20, 2008
Christmas can still arrive when you least expect it, sometimes in the most unexpected manner. Dr. James Dobson relates a story of an elderly woman named Stella Thornhope who was struggling with her first Christmas alone. Her husband had died just a few months prior through a slow developing cancer.
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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Megachurch Marketing: 30,000 people attend Houston’s Lakewood Church every weekend to hear Pastor Joel Osteen. 7 million more catch his Sunday sermons on TV, which costs $15 million a year. Osteen’s book, Your Best Life Now, has sold 2.5 million copies. The flourishing Lakewood enterprise brought
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 20, 2009
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WILLIAM CAREY AND HIS CROP
William Carey arrived in India in 1793 with a burden to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to those who had never heard the name.
For seven years he proclaimed the gospel message faithfully week after week, month after month, with not a single native of India converted
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Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Sep 11, 2012
WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? THE BARNEY STORY
A few years ago, a church in Seattle, Washington was having a big kick-off Sunday. They wanted to do something for their children's programs. So they brought in Barney the Dinosaur. They learned, Kids like Barney when he’s on TV or in a stuffed animal.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 31, 2008
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HOW TO START A FIRE
The great Chicago fire of October 8-10, 1871, reportedly began when a cow kicked over a lantern in Mrs. O'Leary's barn. Indeed, there was a cow in the barn belonging to Patrick and Catherine O'Leary of De Koven Street, Chicago, and fire did start in that barn.
Why did the fire
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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A man got a job as a night watchman at a factory. There had been a lot of thefts by the workers on the night shift and so every morning when the night shift workers passed through his gate it was his job to check their bags and pockets to make sure that nothing was being stolen.
Things were going
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Contributed by Virgil Gibson on Oct 17, 2007
We have two walnut trees that are growing on the property line. We have a fence between us and the neighbor, and the trees are growing up the back side of the fence.
There are several limbs growing over on our side of the fence. The owner of the property owns several duplex apartments on the
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Apostolic
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ZORTHIAN'S FEAR
A mural artist named J.H. Zorthian read about a tiny boy who had been killed in traffic. His stomach churned as he thought of that ever happening to one of his three children. His worry became an inescapable anxiety. The more he imagined such a tragedy, the more fearful he became.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2002
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KEEPING SATAN’S CHURCH ALIVE AND WELL
Anton LaVey, who founded the Church of Satan, died Oct. 29 of heart failure at age 67. His daughter, Karla, and girlfriend Blanche Barton kept LaVey’s death a secret for a week so as not to disturb followers during the church’s most important holiday,
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Well-known commentator and author Eric Sevarid said that the best lesson he ever learned was the principle of the "next mile." He recalled how he learned the principle:
During World War II, I and several others had to parachute from a crippled Army transport plane into the mountainous jungle on the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Karl Popke on May 28, 2010
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In one community -- the Village atheist was not a bad man. He just didn’t believe. He wasn’t interested in church…and there was only one in the area. And this church was,-- well, mostly a social club. Heartlessly and spiritually dead—no conversions or decisions for Christ had been made for some
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
THE BIRD'S RETURN
The great Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (Ro-ald Amun-son) was the first to discover the magnetic meridian of the North Pole and the first to discover the South Pole. On one of his trips, Amundsen (Amun-son), took a homing pigeon with him. When he had finally reached the top
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Brethren
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