Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 29, 2003
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Faith in God makes great optimists. Over in Burma, Judson was lying in a foul jail with 32 lbs. of chains on his ankles, his feet bound to a bamboo pole. A fellow prisoner said, “Dr. Judson, what about the prospect of the conversion of the heathen?” with a sneer on his face.
His
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Contributed by Richard Tow on Oct 27, 2003
The old song that my great grandmother used to sing said it well,
“I will arise and go to Jesus,
He’ll embrace me in His arms,
In the arms of
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Charismatic
Contributed by Vernon Murray on Mar 4, 2004
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Another great man, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, said, “It is hard to lead, when you look over your shoulder and there isn’t anyone there.” Well, that is what happens to Jesus. He comes to his own home town, and he looks over his shoulder and there isn’t anyone there. Well, that isn’t exactly
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Lanny Carpenter on Apr 18, 2004
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William Pitt was one England’s great prime ministers and a great intellect. He was a friend of William Wilberforce, who was a great proponent of abolition because of his Christian convictions. Pitt was a nominal Christian, as most were in his day, but Christianity did not mean much to him.
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Methodist
Contributed by Ed Wood on Jul 1, 2004
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“I PLEAD GUILTY!” The great “prince of preachers” Charles Haddon Spurgeon used to tell this story: “A certain duke once boarded a galley ship. As
he passed the crew of slaves, he asked several of them what their offenses were. Almost every man claimed he was innocent. They laid the blame on someone
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Baptist
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Nona Freeman, the great missionary, once related this story about something that happened in Ghana:
A student from a college in Carbondale, Illinois gave another student from Ghana a tract. In Ghana when a student goes away to college everyone in their tribe contributes something but when they
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Samuel Stone on Nov 22, 2004
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When the great American storyteller Mark Twain was asked, “Who do you think is the best storyteller every lived?” Mark twain answered, “Jesus Christ.” “Then which story is the greatest
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Shawn Rose on Nov 28, 2004
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One of the all-time greats in baseball was Babe Ruth. His bat had the power of a cannon, and his record of 714 home runs remained unbroken until Hank Aaron came along. The Babe was the idol of sports fans, but in time age took its toll, and his popularity began to wane. Finally the Yankees traded
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Contributed by Jeremy Houck on Jan 21, 2005
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It is told that the great preacher D.L. Moody said, “I prayed for faith and thought that some day it would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith didn’t seem to come. One day I read in Romans that “faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” I had up to this time, closed my
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as he has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul...support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great; but let it be in considering riches as they are, as talents
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Contributed by Terry Laughlin on May 30, 2006
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Great Christian leaders have known the necessity of coming to repentance and spending some time in intercession for those in harm’s way.
President Abraham Lincoln, in a National Proclamation of Prayer and Repentance in 1863 wrote, “We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Mark Redd on Jun 18, 2006
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also
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Contributed by Nathan Johnson on Jul 26, 2006
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During the tenure of the great orator Henry Ward Beecher, a visiting minister (Beecher’s brother) once substituted for the popular pastor. A large audience had already assembled to hear Beecher, and when the substitute pastor stepped into the pulpit, several disappointed listeners began to move
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Baptist
Contributed by David Butcher on Sep 8, 2006
I could read a great dialogue regarding the Visible Spectrum. Some here would understand it, to others like me it would be little more than words. I get a little more understanding when they talk about the speed of light, because although I cannot understand speeds of that magnitude, (194,188 miles
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 3, 2006
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A.J. Gordon was the great Baptist pastor of the Clarendon Church in Boston,
Massachusetts. One day he met a young boy in front of the sanctuary carrying
a rusty cage in which several birds fluttered nervously. Gordon inquired,
"Son, where did you get those birds?" The boy replied, "I trapped them
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