Contributed by Daryl Grimes on Sep 25, 2009
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DEMON-POSSESSED MAN
People had written him off a long time ago. He was just a crazy lunatic that no one wanted anything to do with. They kept their children away, they kept their wives away and they kept themselves away. He lived like a pig, his body odor was almost unbearable and to make matters
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Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 31, 2023
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Well ... This short discourse is called ... "Kissing Frogs"
Ever feel like a Frog?
Frogs feel slow, ... low, ... ugly, ... puffy, ... drooped, pooped.
I know! ...... One told me.
The Frog feeling comes when:
You want to be bright... but you feel dull.
You want to share...but you are
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Anglican
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Ecclesiastes tells us that the secret to happiness is to choose happiness. Don't kid yourself into believing that if you're not feeling good all the time then there is something wrong. Olympic athlete, poet, and filmmaker Alexi Pappas has some great advice to keep us grounded.
One lesson
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Presbyterian/Reformed
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I love what Mother Theresa said a few years before her death at a press conference in the USA, “If you don’t want your children then give them to me!”
Mother Teresa said, "Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use violence
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
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WHAT WILL YOU GIVE?
On one of Matthew Rogers' recent work trips to the Dominican Republic, everyone in the group was encouraged to leave behind any clothes or gear they didn’t want, because someone there could certainly use them. He was just going to give away some of his old worn out clothes,
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Contributed by Wes Richard on Apr 11, 2005
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Sometimes small churches look at themselves and say, “Oh, we can’t do this and we can’t do that because we are too small. We don’t have the resources.” And their vision gets limited by their circumstances and instead of taking giant steps of faith, they take baby steps. I’m reminded of the story of
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Brethren
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 22, 2001
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In the spring of 1883 two young men graduated from medical school. The two differed from one another in both appearance and ambition. Ben was short and stocky. Will was tall and thin. Ben dreamed of practicing medicine on the East Coast. Will wanted to work in a rural community. Ben begged his
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 12, 2007
As I began to write, a very clear, if unusual illustration came to my mind. When you hear it at first you might be taken aback by the suggestion in the question. But, in light of what this series is about, discerning God’s purpose for each of us and our circumstances, it is a very good question to
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 6, 2007
Gregory Wiens writes: One afternoon while playing on a wooden picnic table, 4 1/2-year-old Jordon ran a splinter into his finger. Sobbing, he called his father (me) at the office. "I want God to take the splinter out," he said.
I told him his mother could remove it very easily. But he wanted
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Apr 17, 2008
A mother was having a hard time getting her son to leave for school one morning. "Nobody likes me at school," said the son. "The teachers don't and the kids don't. The superintendent wants to transfer me, the bus drivers hate me, the school board wants me to drop out, and the custodians have it in
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Contributed by Donny Granberry on Apr 20, 2008
I remember when our children were small, and Marlys and I would set them in a high chair and feed them. OK, Marlys more than me.
If they did not want to eat, you could put all the food in their mouth you wanted, but they would spit it out. Also, if we tried to feed them something they did not want,
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 30, 2009
REVENGE VS. BEARING A GRUDGE
Tractate Yoma, Chapter 2 (aka, 23a): "What is called revenge, and what is called bearing a grudge? Revenge is such a case: When one comes to the other, and asks him to lend a sickle to him, he says: Nay. On the morrow, the second comes to the first, and wants to borrow
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by John Perry on Apr 6, 2010
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EASTER: OPEN CASKET
I was speaking to a woman recently who told me the sad story of her daughter in-law who was killed in a car accident. She explained how she had been the one who was responsible for the identifying of her daughter in-law's body. When the time for the funeral came, the distraught
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