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In 1948, ...a remarkable religious phenomenon occurred... in the United States.
It began in a tent ... near Hollywood California, ...under the preaching ... of a young evangelist.
The crowds were sparse at first ... but as the preaching continued, ... the crowds began to grow.
At first, ...
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Contributed by Evie Megginson on Oct 22, 2004
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“Just one letter of the alphabet makes all the difference between us now,” said a recently-converted young woman to an unsaved friend, who could not understand the great change that had come
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what
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Contributed by Scott Sharpes on Dec 17, 2003
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THERE GOES MY LIFE
Kenny Chesney has a new song/music video out entitled, “There Goes My Life…” It’s a ballad focusing on the life of two young kids in high school that find themselves in a crisis moment of a pregnancy out of wedlock. (I want to say here that I’m not advocating the immoral
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Nazarene
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2008
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In the movie “Facing The Giants” the coach challenges one of the players to give his best effort. The young player says that he will – but the coach pushes him to promise to give it everything he’s got. The player promises that he will give his best effort. To ensure that he will "give it all he’s
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jan 20, 2003
Former President Ronald Reagan learned the need for decision-making early in his life. A kindly aunt had taken him to a cobbler to have a pair of shoes custom-made for him. The
shoemaker asked, "Do you want a round toe or a square toe?" Young Ronald hemmed and hawed, so the cobbler said, "Come
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Dec 22, 2005
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When Martin Luther was printing his translation of the Bible in Germany, pieces of the printed Scripture fell to the floor. A young girl picked one of them up and read the phrase of our text, “For God so loved the world that he gave”. The rest of the sentence was missing. That moment for her was
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
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Warren Wiersbe tells a story about the days of the Old West. There was a horse bolting down the road with a wagon hitched to it and little boy trapped on the wagon. A young man risked his life to catch the horse and stop the wagon, saving that little boy.
Well, that little boy grew up to be a
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A few years ago in a news letter, I read the following testimony that really touched me about a young man in Japan 400 years ago who was martyred for his faith:
26 Christians were executed at Nizhizaka Hill in Nagasaki, Japan on 15 February 1597. Amongst them was a young seventeen year old boy,
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Contributed by Jason Patrick on Dec 1, 2001
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Rev. Tom Erickson told a story about the public Library having a system called "Dial-A-Tale." Anytime a young child wants to hear a fairy tale, he can call the number and a voice comes on reading a short fairy tale to the listening young ear. However, the number is only one digit different from
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 26, 2007
I met at friend at Perkins Restaurant. I arrived first and told the host a friend was coming. The helpful young host offered to place me at a table beside the reception stand, so my friend could see me upon entering. When I mentioned the cold draft, the host offered to seat us in the P.D.R., a
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Steve Smith on Jul 16, 2007
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ILL: The Heart of Worship
There’s a recent song that was written by a young man who lead the worship at church. He was an extremely talented singer, but the preacher there took him aside and told him that he could not lead the singing at church until things changed because he saw that he was more
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Baptist
Contributed by Curt Cizek on Sep 15, 2007
I can’t remember where I got this illustration from but I love it:
Behind a church in the small town of Flint Hill, Virginia, you will find the grave of a young seminary student named Albert Gallatin Willis who died on October 14, 1864. Albert Willis’ story is unusual. Albert Willis served with the
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Lutheran
Since at least January of 2008, we have all seen daily television commercials for the annual "Avon Walk for Breast Cancer." One young lady, walking in memory of her Mother, who was a breast cancer victim, laments, "I really didn't have any say so about my Mother's death, walking in her memory
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