Contributed by James O. Davis on Dec 5, 2001
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Robert Schuller’s Daughter lost a leg because of a horrible skying accident. She learned to walk all over again. After she returned home from the hospital, Schuller plucked a rose from his rose garden and began to play "He loves me and he loves me not" with his daughter. Schuller had planned to
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 11, 2002
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FRUGAL
Mary’s fourth-grade homework assignment was to make sentences using the words in her spelling list, along with the definition.
Coming across the word "frugal" in the list, she asked her father what it meant. He explained that being frugal meant you saved something.
Her paper
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 20, 2002
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One morning the Pope and Jessie Jackson were having a summit on a lake in a boat about two miles off shore. Reporters were watching these leaders from the shore line and were taking notes to be used in a news article the next day. All of a sudden the wind began to grow fierce and blew off the
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There is a story of a woodpecker who was pecking on a tree. Just as he flew away, lightning hit the tree and split it right down the middle. The woodpecker heard the noise, turned back, and said, “Look what I did!”
A lot of us are like spiritual woodpeckers. We walk around consciously and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 2, 2004
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AN INFINITE GOD, A FINITE MIND
Augustine, while puzzling over the doctrine of the Trinity, was walking along the beach one day when he observed a young boy with a bucket, running back and forth to pour water into a little hole. Augustine asked, "What are you doing?" The boy replied, "I’m trying to
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Story: St. Augustine - so the story goes - was struggling to understand the doctrine of the Trinity. So he decided to go for a walk on the beach, where he saw a little boy digging a hole in the sand with a seashell. The boy then ran off to the ocean, filling the shell, and rushed back to pour it
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Contributed by Lisa Delay on Aug 10, 2005
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I am reminded of my daughter the other day trying on her father’s shoes. It was so endearing to see her walk around thinking she didn’t look utterly ridiculous. To her nothing was wrong with clomping around in shoes 14 inches longer than her chubby little feet. She was all at once very silly and
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Contributed by Richard Tow on Sep 23, 2005
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Listen to this dreary inscription on a gravestone in Britain near Windsor Castle:
Pause, my friend, as you walk by;
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so you will be.
Prepare, my friend, to follow me!
A
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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In her book, First Lady from Plains, Rosalynn Carter told of the “wonderfully odd” things she learned about White House history while a resident there. It seems that the children of President James A. Garfield rode large three-wheelers around as they carried on pillow fights in the East Room. Teddy
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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In her book, First Lady from Plains, Rosalynn Carter told of the "wonderfully odd" things she learned about White House history while a resident there. It seems that the children of President James A. Garfield rode large three-wheelers around as they carried on pillow fights in the East Room. Teddy
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 27, 2006
Story – Silver shoe kid.
I worked for years in a department store.
There was this kid that worked in the China Department.
A place of high value products.
This kid was offered a much better position – turned it down!
Why? Because he walk out each day with a set of silverware I each shoe.
Big
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2007
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Morris, an 82 year-old man, went to the doctor at The Trailer Estates Medical Clinic
to get a physical. A few days later the doctor saw Morris walking down the street with
a gorgeous young woman on his arm. A couple of days later the doctor spoke to Morris
and said, "You’re really doing great,
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One day a rich man went fishing. He had all the latest and finest equipment. Hours later he had caught nothing. He walked on up the river and came upon a small boy with a stick and a bent hook. The boy had a fine string of trout over his shoulder and he was about to go home. The man questioned the
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The Truth is that God, who needs nothing, wants us. The Truth is that we–all of us–have discounted that divine presence and desire, perhaps thinking it’s too good to be true. And so, like Peter, the Rock, we turn to God when He invites us to act in goodness, truth and beauty. We listen to Him
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Catholic
Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Aug 5, 2008
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BUILDING A CATHEDRAL
A man once walked by a building site and saw three stone masons side by side, sweating over their work in the hot sun.
He asked the first, "What are you doing?"
"Laying bricks" came the reply.
He asked the second stone mason, "And what are you doing?"
"Building a wall."
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