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Man in a hurry
On the Andy Griffith Show episode “Man in a Hurry,” Malcolm Tucker is a wealthy businessman from Charlotte. One Sunday, he has car trouble a couple of miles outside of Mayberry. Malcolm walks the rest of the way to town and meets Andy coming out of Sunday morning worship. Andy offers to assist Malcolm, but
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When there is no word of God
Proverbs 29:18: “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” A lot of preaching and teaching is being done today about vision. You must have a vision statement. You must have a vision for reaching the lost, for the future, and for reaching the youth. Even
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How does God save—by faith or facts?
Many atheists will ask this question to cast doubt on God and the Bible: “If God is real why doesn’t He heal amputees? Why is there no healing of an amputee in the Bible?” Well there is one instance of an amputee being healed in the Bible. Luke 21:50-51: “And one of them smote the
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The Spanish Rooster
The other day at the post office we received a Rooster in the mail from Puerto Rico. When the rooster crowed it sounded just like a rooster from America. I thought to myself, “Why doesn’t that rooster crow in Spanish?” I know you are thinking, “How stupid, animals don’t talk.” But we know from research
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Cheap Christians
It seems there was a barber in a small local town who had been the only barber in town for years. Everyone went to this barber to get their hair cut. Then, one day a big hair salon franchise came to town and opened up shop. They advertised, “All Haircuts for $3.” Slowly, the barber’s
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Little Israel, the nation that proves the Bible is the word of God
“Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: O My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from
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Do you like to be blind?
A pastor’s grandkids came to visit his church one Sunday, and the pastor asked his grandson, Caleb, how he liked Sunday School. He said he did not like it at all! The pastor asked him why and he explained that the teacher made them close their eyes for a long time and wouldn’t let them
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God is with us
A grandfather found his grandson jumping up and down in his playpen, crying at the top of his voice. When Johnnie saw his grandfather, he reached up his little chubby hands and said, “Out, Gramp, out.” It was only natural for Grandfather to reach down to lift the little fellow out of his predicament, but
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Justice served
Today we cry for justice. We want the guilty to be punished. This is how wrongs are made right. But if man cries for justice from God he may not like what he gets. For if man got justice we would all be sentenced to death, for all of us have sinned. I found the
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Heaven is for real
Several years ago Don Piper wrote the book “90 Minutes in Heaven.“ He claimed to have died and gone to heaven and then come back. In his book he describes the things he saw in heaven. Heaven Is for Real is the story of Colton Burpo, the 4-year-old son of a small-town Nebraska pastor, who
