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Daniel's Gloves | I sat, with two friends, in the picture window of a quaint restaurant just off the corner of the town-square. The food and the company were both especially good that day. As we talked, my attention was drawn outside, across the street. There, walking into town, was a man who appeared…

AUTHORITY A Massachusetts landlord has discovered a unique way to get his tenants to pay their rent on time. He is awarding prizes to tenants who pay on time. Douglas Rau has about 100 tenants and says he has tried just about everything to get people to pay their rent on time. In the first ever give-away,…

The story is told of an old man who lived on a farm in the mountains of Kentucky with his young grandson. Each morning, Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading from his old worn-out Bible. His grandson who wanted to be just like him tried to imitate him in any way he could. One day…

There’s a story about an old cowboy who went to church one Sunday and arrived just before the service was to begin. Although the old man and his clothes were spotlessly clean, he wore jeans, a denim shirt, and boots that were very worn and ragged. In his hand he carried a worn out old hat and an equally…

GOD’S WORD Army Captain Jeff Ryals serves as an intelligence officer with the 3rd Squadron, 7th Calvary Regiment of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. While he served in Iraq, he carried a family heirloom and a symbol of his faith with him in his shirt pocket. Ryals carried a small steel-covered Bible…

POWER – illustration; John 14:16-17 You, me, and Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz—we have a lot in common. We all know what it’s like to find ourselves in a distant land surrounded by strange people. Though our chosen path isn’t paved with yellow bricks, we still hope it will lead us home. The witches of…

COMPLETENESS OF JOY Allow me to illustrate. When an auto mechanic replaces the brakes on your car, the last thing he will do is to make sure the brakes are “bled” properly. This simple procedure involves one person applying pressure on the brake pedal in the car and one person opening the little valve…

After a few of the usual Sunday evening hymns, the church's pastor once again slowly stood up, walked over to the pulpit, and gave a very brief introduction of his childhood friend. With that, an elderly man stepped up to the pulpit to speak, "A father, his son, and a friend of his son were sailing off…

JUDGMENT In Cuba, nothing is bigger than baseball, not even the cigars. Nothing, that is, except Castro. Recently, the 74-year-old dictator, grabbed an aluminum bat and walked to the plate in an exhibition game against Venezuela. When Castro approached the batter’s box, the president of Venezuela, Hugo…

SIN Authorities in Uganda continue their efforts to control the recent outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus. They fear the disease may spread into neighboring Kenya through seven relatives of a woman who recently died from the virus. Sadly, this same woman unknowingly spread the virus when she fled a hospital…

Throw Out The LifeLine; NV 2/22/01 AM TRUE STORY.... AFTER A FEW OF THE USUAL SUNDAY EVENING HYMNS, THE CHURCH'S PASTOR SLOWLY STOOD UP, WALKED OVER TO THE PUPLIT AND, BEFORE HE GAVE HIS SERMON FOR THE EVENING, BRIEFLY INTRODUCED A GUEST MINISTER WHO WAS IN THE SERVICE THAT EVENING. IN THE INTRODUCTION,…

Throw out the Life-Line; NV 2/22/01 AM After a few of the usual Sunday evening hymns, the church’s preacher slowly stood up, walked over to the pulpit and before he gave his sermon for the evening, briefly introduced a guest minister who was in the service that evening. In the introduction, the preacher…

EASTER A terminally ill children's unit is an odd place to catch a little glimpse of eter­nity, but it happened once between a tiny five-year-old dying from lung cancer and his loving mother, a large loving black woman. She came every day to visit her son. One day before the mother got there, a nurse…

A little boy and girl were singing their favorite Christmas carol in church the Sunday before Christmas. The boy concluded “Silent Night” with the words, “Sleep in heavenly beans.” “No,” his sister corrected, “not beans, peas.” [1] The people of that time were being heavily taxed, and faced every prospect…

the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: Angels March / 1987 "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." Hebrews 13:2 IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE ANGELS Have you ever seen an angel? Dr. S. W. Mitchell thought he had. Dr.…

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS by Dr. Erwin Lutzer Intro Thunder From Sinai Today many concepts about God abound, most of them individually conceived in our own minds according to our own liking. When people stop worshipping the true God, they do not stop worshipping; it is just that they change the object of…

able border=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt'> ! The Two Babylons or The Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife By the Late Rev. Alexander Hislop First published as a pamphlet in 1853--greatly expanded in 1858 Contents Introduction Chapter…