As a minister was addressing a group of men one day, he took a large piece of paper and made a black dot in the center of it with a permanent pen…
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A little boy was playing in his sandbox one day. While he was playing, he discovered a large rock in the middle of the sandbox…
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Hugh Latimer, the famous early Anglican bishop, once preached before King Henry VIII. Henry was greatly displeased by the boldness in the sermon and ordered Latimer to preach again the following Sunday to make up for this egregious offense…
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Before a young man left for his freshman year at college, his parents gave him a Bible and assured him it would be a great help as he transitioned into his new life…
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The great pastor John Wesley was returning home from a church service one night when a man approached him and demanded all his money…
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There’s a story told about a spider that built a beautiful web in an old house. He kept it clean and shiny so that flies would patronize it. The minute he got a “customer” he would clean up on him so the other flies would not get suspicious….
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In his book, The Wonder of the Word of God, Robert Sumner tells about a man in Kansas City who was severely injured in an explosion. The victim’s face was badly disfigured, and he lost his eyesight along with both hands…
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William Tyndale was the first person to translate the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into English, making a Bible for the common people. But in 1535, he was betrayed by a friend and…
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“Forget what you learned in elementary school,” Charles K. Johnson used to say. “The earth is flat as a pancake. All that stuff about the earth being round and the sun being the center of the universe is a big joke.”…
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A Navy officer by the name of Frank Koch once illustrated the importance of obeying the Laws of the Lighthouse. One night, as he was serving on a battleship practicing maneuvers during heavy weather, he had been assigned to keep watch on the bridge…
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