Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 23, 2001
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ILLUSTRATION…the foxhole Christian
“’There are no atheists in foxholes,’ wrote William T. Cummings in 1942. ‘While crouched in a trench with bullets zinging overhead, even the most reluctant heart begins to bargain with God- just in case He might exist. ‘God if you only get me out of this alive,
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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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Contributed by Victor Yap on Feb 28, 2001
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In a Charles Schulz Peanuts comic strip Charlie Brown was playing catch with Lucy to prepare their old hapless losing team for the new baseball season. Charlie Brown proceeded to throw a high ball across the field to her. Lucy was ready for the ball to fly into her mitt. She lifted her head up to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 21, 2001
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In the middle of a forest, there was a hunter who was suddenly confronted with a huge, mean bear. In all his fears, his attempt to shoot the bear was unsuccessful. He turned away and started to run as
fast as he could. Finally, he ended up at the edge of a very steep cliff. His hopes were dim. But,
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Contributed by Danny Thomas on May 21, 2001
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The Tiger, the Man and God
A man was being chased by a tiger. He ran as hard as he could until he was at the edge of a cliff with the tiger in hot pursuit. The man looked over the edge of the cliff and saw a branch growing out of the side of the cliff a few feet down. He jumped down and grabbed
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 29, 2002
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RUTHLESS TRUST
During times of transition, what we most need to practice is "ruthless trust." Brennan Manning has written a brilliant book by that title and tells the story of John Kavanaugh who went to work for three months at "the House of the Dying" in Calcutta. He went not only to give help,
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
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[According to a recent poll] 88% of Catholics and a majority of Presbyterian and Methodist evangelizers [those who actively try to share their "faith"] believe that "if people are generally good, or do enough good things for others during their lives, they
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 27, 2004
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When I was learning to ride there stood in a field a huge tree trunk, it was massive. Such was the size it made the Channel Tunnel look like a drain pipe, this thing was seriously big. We avoided it like the plague, actually we could never understand why it was there for surely no rider and horse
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Contributed by Jeff Simms on Aug 1, 2005
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Herbert Stevenson said about this in his book “James Speaks For Today” that “No man can, by general busyness or specific good deed, no matter how noble, merit salvation. Activity is never a rival to faith. We cannot gain God’s commendation by presenting to Him- as Cain desired-
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 20, 2005
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Recently I ran into Lou Holtz and inquired concering his wife, who has been fighting cancer for several years. He said, "The other day, we were talking and she said to me, Do you know the difference between
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Contributed by Matt Neace on Jun 13, 2018
In 2017, Minnesota Twins All-Star third baseman Miguel Sano when down with a stress reaction to his shin. So Eduardo Escobar filled in at third. He proceeded to belt 10 of his career-high 21 home runs as a fill-in starter.
Speaking of the home runs, Escobar told the Star Tribune, "The 20 home
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 14, 2002
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THE TEST OF GOODNESS
The supreme test of goodness is not in the greater but in the smaller incidents of our character and practice; not what we are when standing in the searchlight of public scrutiny, but when we reach the firelight flicker of our homes; not what we are when some clarion-call
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Contributed by Scott Malone on Apr 5, 2005
When Robert Ingersoll, the notorious skeptic, was in his heyday, two college students went to hear him lecture. As they walked down the street after the lecture, one said to the other, “Well, I guess he knocked the props out from under Christianity, didn’t he?” The other said, “No, I don’t think he
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Contributed by Bill Burress on Dec 28, 2009
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The Legend of a Cherokee Indian Youth’s Rite of Passage?
A father takes his son into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. The youth is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot
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