Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 3, 2001
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Author and teacher, Dr. Howard Hendricks tells the story of a young man who strayed from the Lord but was finally brought back by the help of a friend who really loved him. When there was full repentance and restoration, Dr. Hendricks asked this Christian how it felt away from the Lord. The young
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Contributed by James May on Jul 10, 2001
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Too many times I have played the part of Humpty Dumpty as I stayed on the wall, walked the fence between serving God and the Devil. Just like old “Humpty”, I fell off of the wall too. All my “king’s horses” of personal accomplishments, education, abilities and reasoning could not repair the
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 4, 2003
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ILLUSTRATION… Dr. Anthony T. Evans, Guiding Your Family in a Misguided World.
One day, two monks were walking through the countryside. They were on their way to another village to help bring in the crops. As they walked, they spied an old woman sitting at the edge of a river. She was upset because
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Sep 13, 2005
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This story comes from p131-133 of the The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in The Chronicles of Narnia series.
Peter, the great king, has just slain the evil wolf general Maugrim. Aslan tells him he has blood on his sword. Peter looks down and sees that t is true. He bends down and wipes the blood
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Baptist
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Take a clear glass or cup and fill it with dirty water. Say this is a type of our sinfull soul before God’s forgiveness. Then dump it out in a bucket and say this is Christ forgivness, He cleans out all the sin. Then wash in the cup in a clean bucket. This is a type of baptism in Jesus name. Then
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Apostolic
Contributed by Tim Smith on Sep 24, 2016
Bob Goff tells the story of his longtime friend Charlie. Charlie was one of those guys who measured his life not by what he was but by what he has given up. He was a graduate of law school and then became an FBI agent. He met Bob for coffee and then said he wanted to use his training to help kids
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Methodist
Contributed by Steve Malone on Feb 2, 2021
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It was in a church in Munich that I saw him, a balding heavyset man in a gray overcoat, a brown felt hat clutched between his hands. People were filing out of the basement room where I had just spoken, moving along the rows of wooden chairs to the door at the rear.
It was 1947 and I had come from
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 4, 2012
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ONLY THE STRONG FORGIVE
Mahatma Gandhi said,
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the
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Contributed by Ken Henson on Jul 4, 2012
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NOW SHE UNDERSTANDS
A lady had two children. The older son was 7 years old and the little girl about 2½ years old. She heard this terrible scream upstairs and as she ran upstairs she found out that the little girl was pulling the hair of her brother. He was crying out in pain. The mother
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2010
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HEALING THE WOUNDS OF WAR: THE KIM PHUC STORY
Probably one of the most well-known pictures to come out of the Vietnam War was Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo (show picture) of Phan Thi Kim Phuc (pronounced "fuke"). On June 8, 1972, a napalm bomb was dropped on her village, and Kim, who was
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 10, 2011
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DO YOU WANT TO BE RIGHT, OR DO YOU WANT TO BE WELL?
Dr. David Seamands tells the story about a young woman he counseled in college several years ago. She had suffered every kind of abuse in her own home--psychological, sexual and physical. The very place that was supposed to be nurturing was
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