Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Jul 8, 2007
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Illustration: A Better Plan
When in college Robert J , Morgan came across a poem written by a teenage girl looking for a husband. It was written as a prayer, and this is what she said:
Dear God, I pray all unafraid / As girls are wont to be
I do not want a handsome man / But make him, Lord, like
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Donald Miller, in his excellent book Searching for God Knows What, tells about going to a Bible college where he taught one of the classes. Speaking to this group of Bible students, he told them he was going to present the plan of salvation, but he was going to leave out one key element, and they
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Methodist
Contributed by Virgil Gibson on Oct 17, 2007
We have two walnut trees that are growing on the property line. We have a fence between us and the neighbor, and the trees are growing up the back side of the fence.
There are several limbs growing over on our side of the fence. The owner of the property owns several duplex apartments on the
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Apostolic
Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Jan 12, 2008
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You perhaps may have heard the story of Mr. Whitefield, who made it his wish wherever he stayed to talk to the members of the household about their souls—with each one personally. But stopping at a certain house of a Colonel, who was all that could be wished for except a Christian, Whitefield was
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Baptist
Contributed by Chris Surber on Feb 8, 2008
Our family pet, Happy the Saint Bernard, really doesn’t eat as much food as one might think she would for such a large dog but just because she doesn’t eat as much food as one might think doesn’t mean she does not have good taste!
Happy is not such a big fan of dry dog food. If you fill her bowl
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Christian Church
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 21, 2008
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Billy Graham’s Suits
In January 2000, leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, invited their favorite son, Billy Graham, to a luncheon in his honor.
Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with Parkinson’s disease. But the Charlotte leaders said, ’We don’t expect a
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Apr 21, 2008
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SECURITY
When something historic occurs, we remember it the rest of our lives. Where were you on September 11, 2001? I was listening to the radio after taking my wife to work. Suddenly, an announcer interrupted and said there was "an incident" in New York. The reports worsened during that
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 9, 2008
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I want you to be challenged by this story about Jackie, a fairly new Christian who walked into a major discount store in Portland. In the prescription area she noticed a woman leaning on the counter obviously very sick. Jackie felt an impulse to pray with the woman but, as 90% of us would do, she
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Rick Crandall on Jul 16, 2008
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WHY DOES GOD ALLOW HARDSHIP?
We live in a mixed-up, messed-up world. Sometimes terrible things happen that don't make any sense at all, and we wonder why?
Steven Curtis Chapman is one of the best known singer-songwriters of contemporary Christian music. Over the last 15 or 20 years his songs have
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 10, 2009
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JACK THE NEIGHBOR
Someone in Elgin once had a neighbor named Jack. Jack was a tough man. He worked hard, he drank hard, he fought hard, and he was harsh and gruff in his manner. Most people were afraid of Jack.
But this one neighbor got brave and said hello to him over the fence one day. He
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 11, 2009
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WHAT IS A WITNESS?
I once heard a story about a prosecuting attorney from a small Texas town who called his first witness to the stand in a trial. She was a grandmotherly type, and he asked her, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?"
She said, "I do know you, Mr. Williams. I’ve known you since you were a
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jun 13, 2010
I was speaking with a man recently who had been in a near fatal car accident and he said that God didn’t seem to care about His injuries. I asked him if he blamed God and He said something to the effect of "Yes, GOD IS TO BLAME. Why didn’t He intervene when I had that car accident, or when my
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Louis Gibson on Jun 28, 2010
B.C. = BAD COMMUNICATION
Poor communication can led to all kinds of misunderstandings.
A rather old fashioned lady was planning a couple of weeks vacation in Florida. She also was quite delicate and elegant with her language. She wrote a letter to a particular campground and asked for
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Baptist
Story: Some years ago, I attended called a conference called “Spring Harvest at Work” in Sheffield (in November 1998).
And what was memorable for me was that the conference organisers sprang a surprise interviewee on us – Jim Bakker- a pariah in the Evangelical community.
Indeed he was such an
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Anglican
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