Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Dec 30, 2008
THE LIFE OF THE EARLY CHURCH DIDN’T SPRING UP FROM THE BOTTOM UP, NOR FROM THE TOP DOWN. PAUL SCANLON WRITES OF MEETING A BAPTIST PASTOR WHO FOR TWENTY YEARS HAD BEEN IN MINISTRY AT THE SAME CHURCH. HE AND HIS WIFE HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND FINISHED UP VERY ILL ON MEDICATION. I WAS SPEAKING TO
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Nov 27, 2007
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“The true Christian never has to give up anything (of course I am not speaking of sins), but there are a lot of things that will give him up. They will go one by one. There will be no grief. It will be the way childish occupations are abandoned.
“I never had to give up playing with tops and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
Too many professing believers have given up on God. They’ve dropped the ball.
•Many because they were never encouraged.
(Gregory Dawson (SC.com) Ben Hooper was born several decades ago as an illegitimate child who never knew his dad. As a result, he was constantly taunted by classmates. When he was
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Mar 25, 2024
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Little Philip, born with Down's syndrome, attended a third-grade Sunday School class with several eight-year-old boys and girls. Typical of that age, the children did not readily accept Philip with his differences, according to an article in Leadership Magazine. But because of a creative
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The seventeen year cicada locust lives up to its name. When my children were little the locusts invaded. The little bugs had lived as larvae in the ground for a long seventeen year snooze. When they awoke one Saturday morning, it sounded like all the chain saws in the county had been
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United Methodist
Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Feb 24, 2026
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Ring around the roses, ... pocket full of poses, ashes, ... ashes ... (Slow) we all fall down.
Many of us have sung this little rhyme ... with our children, .... our grandchildren ... or have at least heard the rhyme.
We have heard or sung ... a number of these old rhymes ... as young children
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Contributed by Bill Butsko on Apr 28, 2008
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YOU'LL FIND JESUS THERE
"Tomorrow morning I'll open up your heart" the surgeon said to the 8 year-old-boy.
"You'll find Jesus there," the boy said.
The surgeon continued, "I'll open your heart and check the damage."
"You'll find Jesus there," the boy said.
"When I see the damage, I will suture
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Contributed by Jonathan Busch on Jan 13, 2003
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When I was growing up my parents raised chickens. Chickens have a very interesting social life.
Bill Hybels notes: "Take ten chickens, any ten. Put them in a pen together, and spread a little chicken feed. In short order, you will witness an amazing phenomenon. In a matter of minutes, the
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Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Oct 14, 2005
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Some of you know that I built a little cabin up at my family’s property on the way to Ottawa. What you might not know is that it is built on the edge of a small cliff with a good view of the lake. The north end of the cabin is on solid Canadian Shield rock, but the south end hangs over the cliff
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Contributed by Dana Chau on Sep 3, 2001
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Someone tells about a man who pulled up to a red light and saw a truck towing a trailer with many sheep inside. The man rolled down his window and yelled to the truck driver, "You shepherds don’t move your sheep around like you used to."
To which the truck driver replied, "I’m not a
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Contributed by Garris Hudson on Nov 12, 2024
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A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 50 years earlier. Because of their hectic schedules, it was difficult for the couple to coordinate their travel plans. So, the husband
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Contributed by Kenneth Henes on Oct 27, 2000
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Two men had gone moose hunting up in Canada for a week. Their week of hunting was over, and a pilot had flown in to pick them up, as arranged ahead of time. The pilot taxied the plane down the grass landing strip to where the hunters stood with all of their equipment and the two moose they had
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