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  • Buy Less, Love More

    Contributed by Tim Smith on Mar 17, 2011
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    BUY LESS, LOVE MORE Shane Claiborne writes: I am incredibly hopeful this Advent, because there are so many signs of Christians who are longing for new ways to celebrate our Savior that are not cluttered with the noise of shopping and infected with the myth that happiness must be purchased. On the ...read more

  • Proof Of Who He Is

    Contributed by Chuck Sligh on Apr 14, 2011
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    PROOF OF WHO HE IS This reminds me of the three lunatics in an insane asylum: The first lunatic said to the second, "Did you know that I'm Napoleon Bonaparte?" Indignantly, the second lunatic replied, "I beg your pardon! It just so happens that I am Napoleon Bonaparte!" The first one said, "Oh ...read more

  • No Faith, No Power

    Contributed by Ken Pell on Jun 5, 2011
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    NO FAITH, NO POWER When I was growing up in Oklahoma, there was a lake my family and I frequented a lot called Keystone Lake. Keystone was not a natural lake; prior to its creation in 1962, there were towns located there, one of which gives the lake its name. The town was to be flooded to make a ...read more

  • God As My Guard  PRO

    Contributed by Dr. Nicholas M. Muteti on Jun 24, 2011
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    GOD AS MY GUARD I remember one time driving on a completely unknown route. It was dark, early in the morning, just after midnight. I didn’t know the way and I thought I can drive ahead and somehow will find the town I was looking for. It was the time when all the routes in Kenya were very poor ...read more

  • How Were The Old Testament Saints Saved?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 3, 2011
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    HOW WERE THE OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS SAVED? H. A. Ironside was traveling and dropped in on a Sunday school class. The unprepared teacher asked how Old Testament saints were saved and somebody answered, "By keeping the law." The teacher said, "Correct!" Ironside raised his hand and said, "Romans ...read more

  • The Grizzly And The Skunk

    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 31, 2011
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    THE GRIZZLY AND THE SKUNK Dale Carnegie once noted that there was only animal that the grizzly bear would allow to eat with him. That animal is the skunk. Grizzly bears in Yellowstone Park often come to eat at the place where garbage is dumped. This huge bear can fight and beat almost any animal ...read more

  • Walking On Water

    Contributed by Greg Carr on Feb 21, 2012
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    WALKING ON WATER There once was a young man named Jimmy who had heard a family rumor that his father, his grandfather and even his great-grandfather, all "walked on water" on their 21st birthday. When the day of his 21st birthday came, he believed that if they could do it, so could he. So, off he ...read more

  • The Significance Of Spit

    Contributed by Perry Greene on Aug 13, 2012
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    THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SPIT Now why did Jesus spit in the blind man’s eyes? This is similar to another time when he spit in some dust and made clay, with which he anointed blind eyes (Mark 7:33). If a modern evangelist or missionary followed Jesus’ example in this, how well received would it ...read more

  • Ali Kissed 'em!

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 16, 2012
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    "ALI KISSED 'EM!" Former boxing writer Harold Conrad visited a women's prison with heavyweight fighter Muhammad Ali. "All the inmates lined up," wrote Conrad. "They were ooh-ing and aah-ing as he went along. There were some good-looking ones. But he kissed only the ugly ones." After they left the ...read more

  • What Time Is It?  PRO

    Contributed by Rod Elmore on Feb 18, 2013
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    WHAT TIME IS IT? An old man was standing on a crowded bus. A young man standing next to him asked, "What time is it?" The old man said nothing. As the young man walked away, the old man's friend asked, "Why were you so rude to the young man?" The old man answered, "If I had given him the time ...read more

  • What Alcoholics Can Teach Us

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 31, 2014
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    Philip Yancey interviewed a young alcoholic who had formerly been an active church member, but had allowed Alcoholics Anonymous to replace the church. When questioned why, the young man responded, "Mainly I'm trying to survive, and AA helps me in that struggle far better than any church." ...read more

  • Sacrifice Of Love

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 17, 2014
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    J. Vernon McGee- Many years ago down in Houston, Texas, when a boarding house caught on fire, a woman broke through the lines and went into that house. It collapsed, and she was burned to death. The headlines read: “Poor Wretch Dies: Suicide.” Later the newspaper printed an apology. Why? ...read more

  • A Few Blocks Below My College Was A Restaurant ...

    Contributed by Peter Loughman on May 11, 2007
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    A few blocks below my college was a restaurant that served only breakfast – and it was a great breakfast, cheap. What made this breakfast unique was that, except for the manager, everything was handled by mentally handicapped folks. They were the cooks, the waiters and waitresses, the busboy, the ...read more

  • I Heard A Story About A Train Traveling Through ...

    Contributed by Randy Brooks on Jun 6, 2007
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    I heard a story about a train traveling through the night in a very violent rainstorm. The lightning flashes were almost blinding, the rain hitting the windows was deafening and the strong gust winds rocked the train from side to side. When the lightening flashed and lighted up the darkness, the ...read more

  • Calvin Coolidge

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Calvin Coolidge I was reading the other day. ‘Once, President Calvin Coolidge invited some folks from his hometown to dinner at the White house. Since none of them knew what proper etiquette should be on a state occasion, they thought the best policy would be to do whatever the President did. ...read more

  • Reader's Digest Told Of A Factory Worker Who ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Reader’s Digest told of a factory worker who refused to sign up for group insurance. The problem was no policy could be issued until all employees signed up. Yet he held out stubbornly. The foreman begged him to sign; the shop foreman pleaded with him; the plant superintendent and general manager ...read more

  • I Once Heard A Story Of An Elderly Man That Was ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    I once heard a story of an elderly man that was living out his last days in a nursing home. Each day, as the nurses would tend to his needs, he insisted on having an empty chair sitting next to his bed. The man would look at that empty chair and talk for hours at a time each day. One day one of the ...read more

  • Tribulation – Followed By Crying Out – But Then ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Tribulation – followed by crying out – but then JOY Distress and grief, followed by crying out: Where are you? Or why didn’t you rescue us? Bible filled with similar stories (Exodus 15:1) “The horse and rider have been thrown into the sea.” Four stories that illsutraite this principle: A) Ray ...read more

  • Management, Boss

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Illustration- Management, Boss A man entered a pet shop, wanting to buy a parrot. The shop owner pointed out three identical parrots on a perch and said, "The parrot to the left costs 500 dollars." "Why does that parrot cost so much?" the man wondered. The owner replied, "Well, it knows how to use ...read more

  • On December 2001, The "Leaning Tower Of Pisa" ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    On December 2001, the “Leaning Tower of Pisa” was finally reopened to the public, after having been closed for almost a dozen years. During that time, engineers completed a 25 million dollar renovation project designed to stabilize the tower. They removed 110 tons of dirt, and reduced its famous ...read more