Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Back when I was still wet behind the ears in my 1st ministry, our church had a joint VBS with one of the denominational churches in town. I liked their preacher, but I made the mistake of letting him give the invitation. His church sprinkled babies and ours only baptized adults… so he was a little
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Dr. Tim Lahaye tells the story (which I have repeated many times, but which perfectly illustrates a point); it’s about a husband who was receiving marital counseling. The obvious truth was that He and His wife were at odds with each other and were in the mode of fault-finding. After giving a
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WE CAN BE SO SATISFIED HERE, WE REFUSE TO STEP TO THERE? Years ago 95% of all watches were SWISS MADE. The watches were mechanical, gears moving to keep time. For several decades all watches were made this way.
One day a man was dreaming and came up with a BETTER IDEA!
He invented the QUARTZ WATCH,
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Assembly Of God
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One day in 1943 thousands of soldiers were preparing to leave for Germany and Italy. The Army, the Navy, and the Marines were preparing to load on
the ships. The General decided to have a huge parade through New York City to seek prayer and honor for the men. Many of these brave men would never
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Kent Kessler on Aug 30, 2007
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Fully furnished!
Leander McCormick-Goodheart was a recruiter for the Ford Motor Company in 1944. He toured fifty universities across the United States to recruit the outstanding graduating student of each institution. At Leigh University, he met a young man named Lee and offered him a position at
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Methodist
Contributed by Bill Butsko on Sep 2, 2007
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“What Are Christians For?”
A Christian woman who was engaged in work for the poor and degraded was once spoken to by one who was well acquainted with both the worker and those whom she sought to reach.
“It does seem wonderful to me that you can do such work,” her friend said. “You sit beside
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Christian Church
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 20, 2007
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ILLUSTRATION: Glynn Wolfe lived 88 years; he was born July 25th 1908 and died June 10th 1997. He died alone in a nursing home in Redlands, California where no one visited him and no one came to claim the body. Wolfe died with $430 to his name which was used to give him a pauper’s funeral. What
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Assembly Of God
The man who found the Pearl had already Sacrificed … just in his search for the Pearl. Pearl hunting involved immense danger. You don’t just walk along a beach to find them. Oysters generally thrive at a debth of about 40 feet, and it those days there was no scuba gear. Back in Jesus’ day, A
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
In the November 1987 Reader’s Digest, Betty Wein retells an old tale she heard from Elie Wiesel (vee-zehl’):
“A just man comes to Sodom hoping to save the city. He pickets. What else can he do? He goes from street to street, from marketplace to marketplace, shouting, ‘Men and women, repent. What
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Contributed by Robert Drake on Apr 14, 2008
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Momma and the toast
A Sunday School teacher asked her class if they knew the difference between kindness and loving kindness. One little girl said she knew the difference. She told the teacher that kindness is like when you ask your mother for some toast and she gives it to you, but loving kindness
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Contributed by Stephen Evoy on May 10, 2008
Let’s take a closer look at the dishonest manager (Luke 16:1-9). At the beginning of the story, he is stealing from people. At the end of the story, he is no longer stealing from people. He repented--“accidentally.”
Obviously, he didn’t repent because he felt that stealing was wrong; he
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Scott Jensen on May 15, 2008
Through my travels, I have encountered numerous Christian people from various cultures and various languages. Many of them have spoken about having a feeling that they should do something. About 10 years ago, I had such an experience. My wife, Lina, and I had been trying to have a child for over
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Lutheran
I was visiting my home town in Romania when one of my neighbors died. I was attending the visitation. Usually the family and relatives are taking care of the funeral – the body stays in the living room of the house for three days, until the burial. But if they live in a condo or blockhouse, they
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by John Boquist on Aug 3, 2008
When I was younger, my mom used to sew. She made a lot of my clothes when I was growing up. Anyway, we had quite a few pair of scissors in our house, and we used them for many things: cutting paper, string, plastic, whatever. But mom's good sewing scissors were off-limits. They were the scissors
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
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MISSING THE BABY FOR THE CRIB
One night a wife found her husband standing over their infant's crib. As she watched him looking down at their very first baby, she saw on his face a mixture of emotions: ...disbelief, doubt, delight, amazement, enchantment, skepticism.
Touched by this unusual
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Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Sep 21, 2008
A Domino a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square ends. A popular way of playing with dominos is lining them up end to end and knocking them over. This domino effect is fun to watch when handling the physical tiles but, if it occurs metaphorically in worldwide financial
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