Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Aug 23, 2002
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Old John was a man of God and loved his village chapel. One day he was stopped by an acquaintance, who, by the way, was an ardent angler. "I say, John," said the angler, "I have often wondered what attraction there is up at the village chapel. You go week after week to the same old chapel, see the
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Assembly Of God
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Two fellows meet in Florida. One says: ’I went fishing last week and caught a herring that weighed 450 pounds. The other guy looks at him and says: ’I too was fishing last week, and I didn’t catch anything, but I pulled up the hook, and standing on the hook was a lantern from an old ship. God only
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Contributed by John Shearhart on Nov 19, 2006
There is a story of a young man who came to D.L. Moody’s church and for six weeks preached revival from the single text of John 3:16. After seeing the great number of people saved and being himself moved, Moody said, “Heretofore I had been preaching on the [judgment, the wrath, the perdition and
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Apr 21, 2009
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MAKING IT WORSE
One Sunday morning during announcements, the preacher said, "I need to make a correction to an announcement from last week’s bulletin. It read: The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment, and gracious hostility. It should have read: The church will host
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
In 1962, Billy Graham was in crusade in Seattle. One night, he awoke from a sound sleep with a deep burden to pray for actress Marilyn Monroe. That burden never left him for several days. He told his associates, and they tried to get in touch with her through her agent. They said, "Mr. Graham wants
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Baptist
Contributed by Shawn Rose on Jul 28, 2008
Dr. James Dobson reports that the average preschool child watches between 30 and 50 hours of television per week while the average time spent interacting with his or her father is 37 seconds per day. He also stated, "There is no higher calling on earth for men than to be a father." Casting Crowns
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
According to Pew polling, more than half of Americans say they attend religious services at least monthly, and 40% do so at
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
75% 18-to-24s who read a newspaper when they were ages 13 to 17 now read their local paper at least once
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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The only people who make no mistakes are dead people. I saw a man last week who has not made a mistake for four thousand years. He was a mummy
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week youre away and get nothing done, theres another when
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 14, 2001
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ILL. Marguerite Higgins won a Pulitzer prize for reporting what she heard from an old army sergeant in Korea during the Korean conflict. 15,000 of our soldiers had been dug in for several weeks, facing more than 100,000 communist soldiers on the other side of the valley.
They had been
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 28, 2007
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The young pastor came before his congregation and began to preach his sermon. God had placed it on his heart to begin a series on loving God, loving others.
He preached his heart out, making points and using illustrations that moved people to tears and emotion.
The pastor came to the end of the
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