Contributed by Mark Perryman on May 10, 2006
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This past January the pastors were at a retreat in Duluth and the speaker told of a missionary friend who was trying to reach this group of people in Mexico.
They had a difficult time because these villagers had what he phrased “a scarcity mentality.” The missionary said their belief affected
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Mark Kennicott on May 11, 2006
Four blindfolded men were asked to describe an elephant. One got ahold of its tail and said "an elephant is like a rope!" Another wrapped his arms around a leg and said "no, an elephant is like a tree!" The third had come in contact with an ear and said "you’re both wrong, an elephant is like a
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Pentecostal
Contributed by John Shearhart on May 24, 2006
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“Revival is the people of God living in the power of an ungrieved, unquenched Spirit.”
- James A. Stewart
“Revival is the church falling in
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Contributed by John Shearhart on May 24, 2006
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“Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.”
Henry, Matthew
In his book I Surrender, Patrick Morley writes that
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Contributed by Steven Angus on May 31, 2006
In one of his books, Charles Allen tells about a highway that was being built in England. In the way stood a very, very old building. The workmen tore it down and cleared off the ground on which it stood. After the ground had been exposed to the sunshine and rain for some months, a wonderful thing
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United Methodist
Contributed by Mark Kennicott on May 31, 2006
"I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about him: ’I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus
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John Bevere taught us from the “Bait of Satan”
They (Christians) think churches are like cafeterias; they can pick and choose what they like! They feel the freedom to stay as long as there are no problems. But this does not agree at all with what the Bible teaches. You are not the one who chooses
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Contributed by Debra Klein on Jun 5, 2006
Billy who was given 2 quarters by his grandma on Sunday. One was for the Sunday school offering and the other for an ice cream cone on the way home from church. Billy was flipping both quarters in the air on his way to church when one of them slipped from his hand and fell into
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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 Joel Santos on Jun 21, 2006
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The roof of the church hall of a little Swiss church, at the turn of the 20th century, was falling down. So the members of the church held regular prayer meetings in the hall after the service to pray for funds to repair the roof.
There was an old man, known to be very tight with his money, who
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jun 25, 2006
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I heard a story about a train traveling through the night in a very violent rainstorm. The lightning flashes were almost blinding, the rain hitting the windows was deafening and the strong gust winds rocked the train from side to side. When the lightening flashed and lighted up the darkness, the
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Christian Church
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 27, 2006
Martin Luther put it, ‘The sure mark by which the Christian congregation can be recognized is that the pure gospel is preached there. For just as the banner of an army is the sure sign by which one can know what kind of lord and army has taken to the field, so to the gospel is the sure sign by
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