Category: Pastor’s Pen

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  • Man overboard

    One day Hudson Taylor was traveling on a Chinese junk from Shanghai to Ningpo. He had been witnessing to a man named Peter who rejected the gospel but was under deep conviction. In the course of events, Peter fell overboard, but no one made any effort to save him. Taylor sprang to the mast, let…

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    Man overboard

  • Too proud to pray

    There was a woman at work when she received a phone call that her daughter was very sick with a fever. She left work and stopped by the pharmacy to get some medication for her daughter. She returned to her car to find that she had locked the keys inside the car when she went…

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    Too proud to pray

  • Be Ye Holy

    There is a story about a pastor who was building a wooden trellis to support a climbing vine. As he pounded away, he saw that a little boy was watching him. The youngster didn’t say a word, so the pastor kept on working, thinking the lad would just leave. But he didn’t. Finally the pastor…

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    Be Ye Holy

  • The baptism of Big Bob

    The story of a baptism at a country Baptist church in the 1940s: It was Easter Sunday and everyone was dressed in their finest. It was a proud, puffed-up congregation that day. And they were not happy this Easter Sunday. The creek was up a little bit and running a little swift. The baptismal candidate…

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    The baptism of Big Bob

  • The Pastor’s Pen: We’ll stay out of the way

    The call to Worship had just been pronounced starting Easter Sunday morning service in an East Texas church. The choir started its processional, singing “Up from the Grave He Arose” as they marched in perfect step down the center aisle to the front of the church. The last lady was wearing shoes with very slender…

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    The Pastor’s Pen: We’ll stay out of the way

  • The Pastor’s Pen: The pearl of the greatest price

    A Christian missionary in India had befriended a devoted Hindu and had explained that salvation is a gift. Then one day the Hindu told the missionary he was going to crawl many miles on his knees to Delhi as a means of earning salvation. But before he left he gave the missionary a small, heavy…

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    The Pastor’s Pen: The pearl of the greatest price

  • The Pastor’s Pen: Who am I?

    The German philosopher Immanuel Kant used to love to take long walks on a summer evening, meditating and thinking. On one occasion he was seated in a park when a suspicious policeman noticed that he had been there for several hours. The policeman came up to him and said, “What are you doing?” The philosopher…

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    The Pastor’s Pen: Who am I?

  • The Pastor’s Pen: Our greatest treasure

    Peter Schmidt says if you’ve ever bought a used car, you have illustrated this truth. Someone got rid of that car for whatever reason, they got a new one. They wanted something bigger or they simply just got tired of it. But that old car that they wanted to get rid of was just what…

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    The Pastor’s Pen: Our greatest treasure

  • The Pastor’s Pen: The Red Baron and temptation

    Manfred, Freiherr von Richthofen was a famous German First World War fighter pilot. He was better known as the Red Baron because he flew a distinctive red Fokker aircraft. He shot down more combat planes than anyone else on either side in the first World War. His known kill tally was 80. On April 21,…

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    The Pastor’s Pen: The Red Baron and temptation

  • The Pastor’s Pen: Dirt or glory

    One morning a little girl dressed in spotless white with a lovely bouquet of flowers in her hands passed by a boy who was playing in the dusty street. The sight of this pretty girl stirred the spirit of mischief in the boy’s heart. In no time a handful of dirt struck the clean white…

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    The Pastor’s Pen: Dirt or glory