Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Oct 12, 2007
Illustration: Benjamin Franklin once said :
By their fruits ye shall know them.
-- Matthew 7:20
Well done is better than well said.
-- As quoted in Bob Phillips, Phillips’ Book of Great Thoughts &
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Baptist
HARRY POTTER: TEMPTATION
Every great story has great characters. And in truly great stories, the characters go through significant change. This change is called a character arc.
For example, if you’re familiar with the Harry Potter series, you know that Harry starts off in the story as an
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jan 16, 2005
“If you had asked me a couple of weeks ago to define the word tsunami I would have probably given a humorous response, suggesting that it was an item on an Japanese menu or the name of a new Korean car. Today, however, there is nothing funny to be said that that awful word tsunami. This
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 11, 2008
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Robert Cook, President of King’s College once related a true story from the early years of his ministry. Evidently at that time, he had been receiving some rather pointed criticism. In fact, it had become of such great concern to him that he sought the counsel of a friend, the beloved Bible
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 12, 2008
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A woman was trying to raise her daughter as a Christian. However, she was getting very little support from her husband who thought Christianity was ridiculous. In fact, he often tried to undermine her efforts.
One Sunday, the mother and her daughter were coming home from worship and the daughter
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Church Of God
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 29, 2008
We Are Accountable
Three men who, police say, stole a car in San Jose, California, and drove it to Chico, California, were arrested in Chico when police caught them trying to break into the same car because they had locked the keys inside, or at least thought they had. Chico officer Jose Lara said
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Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jan 29, 2009
Our topic today is worship and service. I’d like to begin by telling a true story that happened to Reverend Forrest I. Sears. He writes:
Wilma had been a member of our church for many, many years. In her later years she needed the assistance of a cane to help in walking. As she was talking
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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Bishop Gerland Kennedy of California tells the true story of a shipwreck off the coast of Evanston, Ill. Many years ago. The students of Northwestern University came to the rescue. One student, Edward Spenser, personally saved the lives of 17 persons that day. Years later a reporter was writing
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 23, 2008
Have you ever wondered why a pigeon walks so funny? According to an interesting article in the Detroit Free Press, a pigeon walks the way it does so it can see where it's going. Because it can’t adjust its focus as it moves, the pigeon
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Independent/Bible
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When I was in the Navy, Sailors told each other all sorts of stories about what happened on various deployments or on liberty. They were called sea stories, and were often far from being true. In fact we used say that the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story was that a fairy tale begins
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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PREACH THE WORD
I am greatly diappointed in the preachers of today,
With their logic and their ethics, their aristocratic way;
With their science and their theories and their new theology,
Full of everything but Jesus and His love for you and me.
There is plenty in the Bible for preachers of
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 18, 2008
SOME OF YOU HERE TONNIGHT WILL BE IN THAT SAME PREDICAMENT - STILL IN YOUR TRESPASSES AND SINS, BUT THE WHY OF CHRISTMAS MEANS YOU CAN BE REDEEMED AND MADE A CHILD OF GOD.
I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT A TRUE STORY TO DRIVE THIS TRUTH HOME TONIGHT. IT’S TOLD BY ERNEST GORDON INFACT THERE IS A FILM
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Contributed by Peter Mwariri on Dec 31, 2011
A family gathered around the table for a meal on New Years' Day. A little boy of five asked his father, "Dad, what happened to the previous year?"
The father said, "It is gone."
"Where?" the boy asked.
"Nowhere. It has just grown old," the father answered.
"I want to see
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 2, 2008
True story from Reader’s Digest:
Our surname, Stead, rhymes with bed, but people often say steed, like the horse. One day a business associate of mine came over to the house and was greeted by my mother.
"Is Mr. Steed in?" the woman asked.
"He’s Stead,"
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