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Chuk Swindoll has a blog for pastors. Good stuff.
I discovered this little story about Chuck Swindoll today:
In a society of shifting moral standards and a community given over to “speaking with a forked tongue,” I was reminded recently of an event that occurred a few years ago when our staff was invited to a large pastors meeting in Houston, Texas. One of the seminars was to be led by Chuck Swindoll, but he seemed to be running late. Finally he appeared on the platform before a large and admiring …
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Some people think wearing a bow time makes them look literary and intelligent, but of course, clowns wear bow ties, too. On a happy day you might find me wearing a bow tie. I wear a bow tie to celebrate something. So if you ever see me wearing a bow tie you might ask me what I’m celebrating. “The joy of the Lord is my strength.”
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On State Route 13 near the little village of St. Louisville, Ohio, just where the North Fork Licking River snakes under the highway south of the village, an old gas station stood between the railroad and the highway. It hadn’t been a working gas station for many years. On the mid-summer afternoon twenty years ago when we were there it was a fruit stand.
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Do you believe there is such a thing as soul-thirst? I do. Deep down in the heart of every person is a thirst only Jesus can quench.
I once directed a Christian ministry housed in a sixteen-story hotel in Michigan. The hotel was built on the river. One morning one of the children was looking out over the river and said; “Oh, Dad, that guy just took a cup out and dipped it in the river and drank from it.”
