Contributed by Brian Buriff on Aug 13, 2006
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Robertson McQuilkin, former president of Columbia International University (Columbia, South Carolina) wrote this testimony:
Life was heavy on me. My dearest friend and intimate companion, my delightful wife Muriel, was slipping away, one painful loss at a time, as Alzheimer’s disease ravaged her
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Church Of God
Contributed by Fred Sigle on Nov 9, 2006
Families can live in the same house and never see each other. The sad thing is, you wake up to a beautiful HOME, a nice manicured LAWN, two cars in the GARAGE—something you WORKED HARD all of your life to get.
Now the house is COLD, EMPTY, the children GONE and the HUSBAND and WIFE hardly
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Nov 16, 2006
A little 2 year old girl stands at the edge of a swimming pool frozen. Her daddy is in the water with his arms raised up toward his little angel saying, “Jump; it’s okay princess, daddy will catch you.”
In that moment that little girl feels for the first time the inner conflict that we have all
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Floyd Johnson on Nov 26, 2006
Col. 1:15-23
(Ill.) It is a very special glue not like those we have available to us:
1.There is a very simple glue that holds the little plastic toys that can be thrown against the wall. It sticks, but comes off so easy.
2.Then there is rubber cement it holds papers together, but allows them to
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Dr. Rod Cooper, a Professor at Denver Seminary grew up on a pig farm. In one field there were 200 or 300 little pigs running around. Every day at 4:00 a.m. he went out to feed them, and when he walked in they would all scatter except for one little pig that would come up and chew on his shoe. He
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Attitude Is Everything.
There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. "Well," she said, "I think I’ll braid my hair today." So she did and she had a wonderful day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw that
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Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 12, 2007
ILLUSTRATION
Healing - Doctors Have Faith in Faith
A survey conducted by the American Academy of Family Physicians shows that ninety-nine percent of doctors believe a relationship exists between faith and physical healing. Recently, more than one thousand health-care professionals met at Harvard
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Charismatic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 21, 2007
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An undertaker ask a local new minister to preach a funeral for a person of no friends, money, or known relatives. The funeral director felt so bad already at the cheap coffin. The new minister responded gladly. The directions were vague and 8 miles into a wooded area and set for 2pm. Panically,
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on Sep 24, 2007
Jesus did as much when he gave his first sermon in Luke 4. Jesus was asked to read the scripture in the synagogue and give some teaching. He read from Isaiah about freeing the captives, healing the sick, making the blind see, and enacting the Kingdom Day of Jubilee. He said today it is fulfilled in
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Church Of God
Contributed by Lonnie Erwin on Oct 12, 2007
A sharp knife for the vine branches. --
I. THE TEXT SUGGESTS SELF-EXAMINATION. It mentions --
1. Two characters who are in some respects exceedingly alike; they are both branches, and are in the vine: and yet for all this, the end of the one shall be to be cast away, while the end of the other
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 24, 2007
Remember to look at the possibilities in the area you see. (You see some things but don’t actually look at them.) We used the FedEx logo during our Gripped For Greatness campaign last year. We asked if you saw all you were looking at.
Between the last two letters of FedEx you can see an arrow
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 2, 2007
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Ready Or Not, Here I Come!
As children we used to play a game called “Hide and Seek.” The object of the game was for someone to be “It” while the others ran to hide. Whoever was “It” had to hide their eyes, count to a predetermined number, and then go and find all the hiders. The hiders, meanwhile,
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Baptist
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Nov 28, 2007
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In the Star Wars films I love the character of Yoda. He is from an alien race of small creatures about 3 feet high, with a green-brown complexion. Yoda is old. He hobbles around on a walking stick and yet his words are full of wisdom for his pupils. In many ways he is a pitiful sight. At one point
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Anglican
Contributed by Fred Parker on Dec 15, 2007
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Babe Ruth …The Great Bambino
One of the all-time greats in baseball was Babe Ruth. His bat had the power of a cannon, and his record of 714 home runs remained unbroken until Hank Aaron came along. The Babe was the idol of sports fans, but in time, age took its toll, and his popularity began to
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Apostolic
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 29, 2007
Illustration 4300 Star Over Christ’s Birthplace
A Silver Star hanging over the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem was the cause of a war which involved five world powers, lasted three long years, and caused a million casualties as well as a billion and a half dollars. This was known as the Crimean
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Other
Peter Johnson related this story in the April 14, 1988, issue of USA TODAY.
“Have you ever noticed that sometimes we get angry and remain bitter with people and actually forget why we’re so upset? Take, for example, the notorious Hatfield-McCoy feud.
“It hit newspaper front pages in the 1880’s,
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Methodist
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Apr 5, 2008
Professional golfer Tommy Bolt was playing in Los Angeles and had a caddy with a reputation of constant chatter. Before they teed off, Bolt told him, “Don’t say a word to me. And if I ask you something, just answer yes or no.” During the round, Bolt found the ball next to a tree, where he had to
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