Contributed by Tim Smith on Oct 20, 2012
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J Vernon McGee told the story of the days before the Civil War in a city in the south. At the center of town, there is a commotion as a crowd gathers for a public auction to watch the proceedings. In the crowd is an uncouth, foulmouthed, loud, boisterous man who is the meanest, cruelest, most
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Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 12, 2010
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BE WORRY-FREE
In an issue of the AARP Bulletin, readers were asked to respond to the question: What’s your strategy for coping with stress? The answers ranged from "Eat a chocolate chip cookie" to "Have a stiff drink."
But Don Betz of Oakdale, Minnesota, offered his own unique solution. Every
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Jul 1, 2011
SET FREE
Ray Bakke, the Executive Director of International Urban Associates, tells a great story from World War II.
An airman named MacDonald and a Scottish chaplain bailed out behind German lines, were captured and put into a prison camp, with MacDonald in the American barracks and the chaplain
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Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Davon Huss on Sep 4, 2011
SET FREE
It all began on Sunday, December 11, 2005, when a fisherman spotted a 50-ton humpback whale tangled up in crab trap lines off the coast in northern California. His call for help was answered by a group of Coast Guard divers and whale experts.
The rescue operation was both difficult and
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Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Perry Greene on Oct 4, 2011
FREEING THE QUAIL
At a Farmer’s Market, there was a covey of quail walking around a pole. They had strings attached to their legs and walked in circles hour after hour. A customer purchased the birds and then cut the strings off their legs, giving them their freedom. Yet, in spite of the
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Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Sep 29, 2023
Once a pastor was speaking on the topic of Spiritual Freedom. He began to wax poetical in his delivery as he repeated over, and over this phrase… “I’m free! I’m free! Praise God I’m free indeed!”
After service a little boy shook his hand and said, “Preacher, I’m free! I’m free! I’m free indeed!”
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Oct 25, 2003
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FREEING GOLLUM
In the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, we are introduced to a frightening creature named Gollum. He lives in the area known as Middle Earth and goes about with a croaking throat muttering. At one time he possessed the ring of power and it corrupted him with its evil.
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Denomination:
Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 1, 2008
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SET FREE
A man said to his pastor: “I am a miserable sinner and there is no help available for me. I have prayed to God, I have tried to be good and I have tried to do the right thing at the right time, but I always seem to fail.”
The pastor asked him: “Do you believe in the life, the death, and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 2, 2003
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Salvation is a "Free Gift" from God.
Although "Free" it does not mean everyone has it.
If the local harware store was handing out free snow shovels today, does that mean you have one, no.
You have to go to the hardware store and ask for one of those free snow shovels, and then when it is in your
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 18, 2010
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FREE PIZZA - TEN DOLLARS
Way back in the day when Katie and I were dating, I got this phone call from her. She was very excited. She had just purchased a discount coupon book for discounts on various restaurants in town, for only $25.00. If you are familiar with the Entertainment Coupon Book,
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Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and
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Contributed by Brad Henry on Sep 5, 2011
FREE GAS: GOD KNEW
Yesterday we had an "event" at church. We were told to come with comfortable clothes and that was all the direction we received. When we got to church, the pastor said, "OK folks, today we are going to the gas station up the street. We are going to give $25.00 of gas to 150 cars
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THE FREE-FOOD TREE
One year, a tree on the campus of Green Acres Elementary School, near Santa Cruz, California, bore strange fruit—mostly sandwiches, but sometimes a cookie, a cupcake, an apple or an orange.
It came into full bearing from a seed planted by teachers Sophie Farrar and Sandra Enz,
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Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Feb 18, 2012
ONLY IN OBEDIENCE ARE WE FREE
In his book "Run with the Horses," Eugene Peterson tells how he saw a family of birds teaching their young to fly. Three young swallows were perched on a dead branch that stretched out over a lake. One adult swallow got alongside the chicks and started shoving them
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Denomination:
Brethren