Contributed by Timothy Peck on Feb 1, 2001
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SIMPLE CONFESSION, PROFOUND FORGIVENESS
In 1818 one out of six women who had children died of something called "childbirth fever." A doctor’s daily routine back then started in the dissecting room, where he performed autopsies, and from there he made his rounds to examine expectant mothers. No one
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Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jun 4, 2003
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James Moore tells the story in “Attitude Is Your Paintbrush” of a
young orphaned boy who had been taken to his grandmother’s house. The house caught fire one night. The grandmother tried to rescue the little boy, but was overcome by smoke and died in the disaster. As the fire blazed, a crowd
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Contributed by Bruce Ball on Aug 21, 2004
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A few minutes ago, I told you we were chosen by God. That is wonderful, but being chosen by itself does not help us much. That is only the first step. After God chooses us, there is something that we must do. We must accept it. Let me explain about being chosen and then accepting that choice.
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Nov 14, 2004
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There is an ancient door on display in St. Patrick’s cathedral in Dublin, Ireland. The rough hewn door has a rectangular hole hacked out in its center. It is called the “Door of Reconciliation,” and gives rise to the Irish expression of “chancing one’s arm.” In 1492, two prominent Irish
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 5, 2023
Do you remember, how once in the gospel, the Pharisees, trying to trap Jesus, came with that question about paying your tax? And how he asked them, “Show me the coin used for paying the tax." And how then he asked: "Whose portrait is it?" And how they answered, "It bears the
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
THE MIRACLE BIRTH
Mike Hermanstorfer was clutching his pregnant wife's hand in a Colorado hospital on Christmas Eve last year when she stopped breathing. Mike’s wife, Tracy, went into cardiac arrest during labor. Doctors told him, "We're going to take your son out now. We have been unable to
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Contributed by John D Jones on Oct 26, 2011
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GOD'S HEARTBEAT IN US
For 72 years Gordon and Norma Yeager shared their lives together as husband and wife. On October 12, 2011, while on a morning drive Gordon came to a stop sign and failed to yield to oncoming traffic. The elderly couple was taken to the Marshalltown Hospital near Des Moines,
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Jun 25, 2025
Humor: The Laziest Man Search - Roll Me Over
One hot June day, when the foreman didn’t hear or see any activity, he found his workers in the breakroom soaking up the A/C.
He said, “This is the laziest bunch of workers I’ve ever seen. I just don’t know which one of you is the laziest.”
He reaches
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2001
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The Romans sometimes compelled a captive to be joined face-to-face with a dead body, and to bear it about until the horrible emanating smell destroyed the life of the living victim. Virgil describes this cruel punishment:
’The living and the dead at his command
Were coupled face to face, and hand
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Contributed by Dave Kinney on Mar 15, 2009
BETTER THAN A LIGHT
It was Christmas Eve 1946, King George the Sixth, reined over Great Britain. They had been bombed; they were broke and barren of any hope of the future. That Christmas Eve night he got on the radio to make an address to his nation. These were that last known words he spoke to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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Brotherhood doesnt come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand it is an
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Apr 1, 2008
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 16, 2004
The Youth Leader had taken their combined group camping. It had been fun making preparation and deciding on where to go. But now the first day of camping was over and it was time to sat around the almost dead campfire with only the glow of the last dying branches they had burned. The chaperons
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