Contributed by Richard Goble on Oct 31, 2007
While on a short-term missions trip, Pastor Jack Hinton was leading worship at a leper colony on the island of Tobago. A woman who had been facing away from the pulpit turned around.
"It was the most hideous face I had ever seen," Hinton said. "The woman’s nose and ears were entirely gone. She
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Baptist
Contributed by Jay Winters on Dec 30, 2007
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Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who helped Jews escape from the Nazis during World War II. Throughout her early life she helped hide people from the ugliness that is humanity at its worst. She was arrested and put into one concentration camp after another, one of which being a place named
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Lutheran
Contributed by Dan Thompkins on Jan 11, 2008
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The "South Indian Monkey Trap" was developed by villagers to catch the ever-present and numerous small monkeys in that part of the world. It involves a hollowed-out coconut chained to a stake. The coconut has some rice inside which can be seen through a small hole. The hole is just big enough so
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
Sometime when you’re feeling important,
Sometimes when your ego’s way up;
Sometime when you take it for granted
That you are the prize-winning “pup”;
Sometime when you feel that your absence
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow these simple instructions,
And see how it humbles your
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 8, 2008
Mushrooms or Maple Trees: Mushrooms sprout up overnight and then wither away in a matter of days. Maple trees, on the other hand, grow gradually while learning to withstand the forces of nature that threaten their existence. They result in a majestic fruit bearing entity that lasts for
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2008
Why? Look at the Israelites, he parted the seas, let them cross, while he blocked the Egyptians from attacking with pillars of fire, and when they were across, the Egyptians pursued them and he brought the walls of water down on them.
Now think of it in another sense, think about it, he set our
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Contributed by Brien Sims on Jun 18, 2008
“Two pals are sitting in a pub watching the eleven-o’clock news. A report comes on about a man threatening to jump from the 20th floor of a downtown building. One friend turns to the other and says, "I’ll bet you ten bucks the guy doesn’t jump." "It’s a bet," agrees his buddy. A few minutes later,
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 23, 2008
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TEN COMMANDMENTS: STATUTES OF LIBERTY
In The Gospel and the American Dream, historian Bruce Shelley writes, "In one hand Liberty holds the torch of freedom and in the other the tablet of law. The torch challenges the forces of darkness and tyranny. The tablet of law reminds us that liberty
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Contributed by Jesse Bennett on Oct 4, 2008
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to negotiate with Tripoli’s envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman or (Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). Upon inquiring "concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury", the ambassador replied:
"It
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Baptist
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Oct 27, 2008
Gary Martin, author of Meanings and Origins provides us with the US origin of the phrase. He traced the earliest known printed reference to 1921. At the time it spoke of 'recent panics' in Arizona. The 'recent panics' referred to in that citation was the Bisbee deportations of 1917. Martin
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Todd Catteau on Dec 21, 2008
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He's Alive!
One church I read about put on a Christmas program that included a manger scene with their children. There was a little 5-year-old boy on the drama team, I think he was a shepherd that year. He was energetic to say the least! This little boy was a handful. During rehearsals he was all
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 15, 2009
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STEP BY STEP
He does not lead me year by year
Nor even day by day,
But step by step my path unfolds;
My Lord directs my way.
Tomorrow’s plans I do not know,
I only know this minute;
But He will say, "This is the way,
By faith now walk in it."
And I am glad that it is so,
Today’s enough to
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Other
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During his 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy often closed his speeches with the story of Colonel Davenport, the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
On May 19th, 1780 the sky of Hartford darkened ominously, and some of the representatives, glancing out the windows,
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 30, 2001
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"I recently read a moving story that David Jeremiah wrote about the founder of World Vision, the international Christian relief agency. Bob Pierce had advanced leukemia, but he went to visit a colleague in Indonesia before he died. As they were walking through a small village, they came upon a
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Contributed by Brent Williams on Jun 7, 2001
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Where’s God?
Two young lads had terrorized their neighborhood with their pranks and thefts. The parents didn’t know what to do and finally with the assistance of their minister, it was decided that the clergy would intervene and attempt to straighten out the boys. The parents needless to say were
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Baptist
Contributed by Bruce Howell on Aug 28, 2001
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Illus.: “Love Your Enemies”
We found ourselves on the same track with several carloads of Japanese wounded after we were freed from the Kwai prison camp. These unfortunates were on their own without medical care. No longer fit for action in Burma, they had been packed into railway cars which were
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