THE FREE-FOOD TREE
One year, a tree on the campus of Green Acres Elementary School, near Santa Cruz, California, bore strange fruit—mostly sandwiches, but sometimes a cookie, a cupcake, an apple or an orange.
It came into full bearing from a seed planted by teachers Sophie Farrar and Sandra Enz,
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SAFE SEX IN MY DAY
Sex is God's idea and was and is a wonderful blessing within marriage!
Reminds me of a grandfather and his grandson on a fishing trip. The subject turned to sex. The grandson, a teenager, asked, "Papa, they didnt have a whole lot of problems with sexual diseases, AIDS, and
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IMAGE IS EVERYTHING
In 1990 when Andre Agassi was at the start of a career that lifted tennis' popularity to new heights, advertising execs for Canon cameras invested millions in an ad campaign
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JOHNNY'S ONE-TRACK MIND
I'm like the little boy who was asked by his teacher, "Johnny what is your favorite animal?"
He said, "Fried chicken!" Being a PETA supporter, she sent him to the principal's office.
The next day she asked him, "Johnny, what it your favorite living animal?"
He said,
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TIME TO A PIG
Reminds me of a man who was walking past a farm, and noticed a farmer feeding pigs in a most extraordinary manner. The farmer would lift a pig up to a nearby apple tree, and the pig would eat the apples off the tree directly. The farmer would move the pig from one apple to another
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SAD DISORDER
There is a disorder called SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder. It is when people do not get enough sun light. There is
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THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS AROUND YOU
Inscribed upon the Ruskin's Memorial, at Friar's Crag Keswick, England are these words:
"The Spirit of God is around you in the air you breathe. His glory in the light you see, and in the Fruitfulness of the earth and joy of His creatures. He has
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HE GAVE EVERYTHING AWAY
John Kluge was once the wealthiest man in America, he gave his 7,400 acre estate away estimated to be worth more than $45 million dollars.
He is recognized for his generosity, yet
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WHEN HE SPEAKS, THINGS HAPPEN
Some people call the President of the United States "the most powerful person in the world." But more then one President would disagree. President Nixon couldn't even get some ugly temporary builds removed
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FEAR OF...
In Boca Raton Florida, Jerry Stevens, a pilot decided to gree the New Year by writing, "God is Great" and similar messages in the sky above the city. When they saw the skywriting, many residents panicked and called police. They believed it was a terrorists'
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THE BIBLE'S ON THE MOON
"Fly Me to the Moon" was a song written by Bart Howard and made popular by Frank Sinatra.
If we could fly to the moon, we would discover there is a microfilm packet containing Gen. 1:1 in sixteen
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Dec 5, 2011
INLETS AND OUTLETS
My favourite spot here on Cape Sable Island is the walk from Cat Rock to Clam Point. It’s a beautiful location, quiet and peaceful, and I love meeting God there. But along the way, you will walk by several ponds. Some of the ponds are quite nice. But some of them are not.
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KNOW WHY YOU WORSHIP AS YOU DO
Why would some people buy a cat and tie it to the bedpost to show their reverence to God?
Many years ago, a very poor holy man lived in a remote part of China. Every day before his time of meditation, in order to show his devotion, he put a dish of butter up on the
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THE CIRCLE MAKER
Pastor Mark Batterson wrote a book called "The Circle Maker". He tells the following.
The Book of Legends, is a collection of stories from the Jewish Talmud, when I discovered the true legend of Honi the Circle Maker. It forever changed the way I pray. I pray more. I pray with
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Contributed by David Tack on Dec 2, 2011
WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH JESUS THIS CHRISTMAS?
Many years ago in the countryside of Bethlehem the townsfolk prepared for just another day, though this day was quite extraordinary. The shepherds were out tending to their sheep and the Jewish nation was feeling the restraints of Roman oppression.
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Contributed by Bret Toman on Nov 26, 2011
AMAZING FORGIVENESS
Philip Yancey in Rumours of Another World shares a story of the remarkable. The story of an atrocity that happened during the days of apartheid in South Africa and the reconciliation that followed in a court room many years later.
A policeman named Van de Broek recounted an
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Contributed by Allan Kircher on Nov 26, 2011
JESUS' FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY
Let’s take it up a notch and calculated/probability/one person fulfilling 48/300 Messianic predications/OT would be:
one in a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion,
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