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A young boy was invited to church by one of his friends.
On the way out the door, his mother handed him two dollars. Then she said, "There is one for you and for God when they pass the offering plate!"
As the boy walked along with his friend, the wind blew one of the dollars right out
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Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Jun 25, 2025
Burned Bridges
When I chose
To burn my bridges to you,
O what a stupid choice I made,
For I burned my fingers with the matches.
When I changed
My mind and wished to return,
The way to you I found not,
It lay before me now as smoldering ashes.
When I looked,
Hope had been consumed by coals,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 7, 2001
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One of the subjects I taught was physical science for learning disabled kids. It was hard to get them motivated to do much at all. One day I showed the class a video about protecting the environment. It explored all the ways that humanity was destroying the earth and the steps we needed to take
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Contributed by Johnny Carver on May 12, 2001
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As a boy growing up in the country I had heard scary stories about a snake called a "Black Racer" that would chase you. These stories kept me very alert as I walked up and down the gravel roads around where we lived. One day mom asked me to go to the neighbors house and borrow an iron because ours
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Pentecostal
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I once read a story about a mother whose love went the distance for her child. The mother in this story went to help out during harvest time. She took her child with her. She was following the custom of harvest time in Scotland, where the women would help. She placed her child in reach. But,
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
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SHOWING RESPECT FOR MOM
Adrian Rogers, Pastor of the Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, TN, tells a story about a man, his boys, and respect for their mother:
"It seems that one of the boys lipped off to his mother one day. Now I don’t know about your home, but in the Rogers home showing
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I almost lost the that which is most precious to me almost 3 years ago. I was here doing some interviews for Day Camp Staff when the phone rang. It was a friend of my wife, Joanne, who called to say that Joanne had just been loaded into an ambulance and was being taken to the U of A hospital.
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Baptist
Contributed by Tim Zingale on Jul 22, 2002
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The final picture of God’s love for us through Jesus Christ comes for a story told by the late Pastor Louis Valbracht as he relates an event in his life.
He says:
I remember when I returned from over seas at the end of W.W. II, I was met by a nearly-three-year-old daughter whom I hadn’t seen
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2002
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Celebrities tend to misbehave in tiresome and predictable ways--tantrums, affairs, addictions--and we tend to think they’re spoiled. But one psychiatrist, Cornell’s Robert B. Millman, says they’re not spoiled, they’re sick. The affliction is Acquired Situational Narcissism.
ASN develops when
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2003
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JUST TO BE NOTICED
Every spring, hundreds of Hollywood “stars” gather for the Academy Awards. Very few “slip in the back door:” instead, they make an entrance. They walk down the long red carpet, smiling at the cameras and waving to the people in the stands (who, by the way, all had to apply and
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Some years ago, Richard Foster wrote a book in which he described what he thought were the three most likely forces at work in the lives of modern Americans. His list? Money, sex, and power. And, you know, it’s possible. These things may very well be the base metals we use for forging a belief
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 12, 2004
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When I was very young, I remember swimming at a lake during a Gregory family reunion. I know, the thought of such a reunion is more than some of you can stomach. At the lake, there was a dock. I would walk a little ways out on the dock, jump in the water, and then walk back to shore. Each time
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 19, 2004
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ILLUSTRATION... “What if God Was One of Us?” by Joan Osborne
The world sometimes wonders about God and wonders what He is like and what He is up to. Most people believe there is a God up there but they do not know what He is like. A pop song in 1995 by Joan Osbourne entitled, ’What if God was
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