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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
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Reflecting the light
A well-known Bible teacher has just finished speaking to a large class of businesspeople on the Christians’ responsibility to be light in the world. He had emphasized that as believers we all have the obligation to reflect the Light in the world, the Lord Jesus. After the class, one of the members shared with him
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Tearing down the name of Jesus
A pastor was in college at Dallas Baptist University, as he drove through Dallas on the way to his classes. He would always see a huge sign of a dynamic church in the area that said, “Lifting Up the Name of Jesus!” It was very impressive. One day while he was driving to school, he
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A band of theologians
Years ago a team of scientists announced what they think may be the first evidence for cosmic inflation. According to the theory of cosmic inflation, 10-34 seconds after the Big Bang the universe briefly and rapidly expanded, or inflated, to a much larger size with a velocity far faster than the speed of light. Like
