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  • When French Soccer Star Zinedine Zidane ...  PRO

    Contributed by W F on Oct 5, 2006
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    When French soccer star Zinedine Zidane head-butted Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the chest during the final 10 minutes of the 2006 World Cup he sealed his own fate and the fate of his team. When Zidane was sent off with a red card France lost its best scorer. And this, just as the match ...read more

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  • Quote: "Jesus Hung Around With Sinners, And If ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on Aug 29, 2006
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    QUOTE: “Jesus hung around with sinners, and if we’re too holy to allow people to blow smoke in our faces, then we’re holier than Jesus was… Love acceptance, forgiveness. Those three things are absolutely essential to any ministry that will consistently bring ...read more

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  • Quote: "When Love, Acceptance And Forgiveness ...  PRO

    Contributed by C Jordan on Aug 29, 2006
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    QUOTE: “When love, acceptance and forgiveness prevail, the church becomes what Jesus was in the world: a center of love, designed for the healing of broken people, and a force for God… One of the greatest services a church can offer a community is to provide a place for people to be brought to ...read more

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  • Quote: "Often Hobbling Through Our Church Doors ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on Aug 29, 2006
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    QUOTE: “Often hobbling through our church doors on Sunday morning comes grace on crutches – sinners still unable to throw away their false supports and stand upright in the freedom of the children of God. Yet, their mere presence at church on Sunday morning is a flickering candle representing a ...read more

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  • What Bricks And Mortar Are To A Building, A ...

    Contributed by W F on Jul 3, 2006
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    What bricks and mortar are to a building, a marriage is to a community in which it lives and loves. There can be no doubt that a community will crumble and collapse if marriage is allowed to crumble and collapse. And history is strewn with example after example of this. The Roman empire is just ...read more

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  • A Little Boy Ran Into The Living Room Where His ...  PRO

    Contributed by W F on Jun 25, 2006
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    A little boy ran into the living room where his father was reading. “Dad, where did I come from?” The boy’s mother cleared her throat and excused herself to let the father answer this long-feared question. Father cleared his throat and went through a long, careful explanation of how children are ...read more

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  • Us Golfer Arnold Palmer Once Played A Series Of ...

    Contributed by W F on Jun 25, 2006
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    US golfer Arnold Palmer once played a series of exhibition matches in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi king was so impressed that he wanted to give Palmer a gift. Palmer said, “That really isn’t necessary, Your Highness. I’m honoured just to have been invited." The king said, "I would be deeply upset, if ...read more

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  • Perhaps You've Seen The Movie O Brother, Where ...

    Contributed by W F on Jun 25, 2006
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    Perhaps you’ve seen the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? It’s a comedy set during America’s Depression era. The story revolves around three petty criminals who escape from a chain gang. George Clooney stars as the leader named Everett Ulysses McGill. He tells his companions that he has buried ...read more

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  • We And The World, My Children, Will Always Be ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on Jun 21, 2006
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    “We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. ...read more

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  • Open War Is Upon You

    Contributed by C Jordan on Jun 21, 2006
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    QUOTE: (From Waking the Dead by John Eldredge) "In the second film of The Lord of the Rings trilogy - The Two Towers - there is a king who is reluctant to go to war. Theoden...is fearful and timid. An army is marching through his lands, an army bred for a single purpose: to destroy the world of ...read more

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  • 65279;voltaire, The Noted French Writer, Who ...

    Contributed by Steve Holmes on Jun 10, 2006
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    Voltaire, the noted French writer, who died in 1778, said that in one hundred years from his time Christianity would be swept from existence. Only fifty years after Voltaire’s death, the Geneva ...read more

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  • We Sow Our Thoughts, And We Reap Our Actions; We ...

    Contributed by W F on Jun 5, 2006
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    We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, ...read more

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  • As I Grow Older, I Pay Less Attention To What ...

    Contributed by W F on Jun 5, 2006
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    As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they ...read more

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  • If We Don't Feel Strong Desires For The ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on May 27, 2006
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    “If we don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuffed with ...read more

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  • I Have Been Told That In The Jungles Of South ...

    Contributed by Mark Price on May 12, 2006
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    I have been told that in the jungles of South America, that monkey trappers use jars with narrow mouths, hung in trees by wire, to trap their prey. They hang the jars on the branches, and place rocks inside. As the monkeys travel through the trees, the branches rattle the stones in the jars. The ...read more

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  • Children's Prayers  PRO

    Contributed by C Jordan on Apr 25, 2006
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    CHILDREN’S PRAYERS: Dear God: Please send a new baby for Mommy. The new baby you sent last week cries too much. Debbie, 7 Dear God: Who did you make smarter? Boys or girls? My sister and I want to know. Jimmy, 6 Dear God: How many angels are there in heaven? I would like to be the first kid in my ...read more

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  • I Came Across This Humourous Story On The ...  PRO

    Contributed by C Jordan on Apr 25, 2006
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    I came across this humourous story on the internet recently: Little Johnny had been misbehaving and was sent to his room. He emerged a couple minutes later and informed his mother that he had thought things over and had even said a little prayer. The mother was very happy and said, “If you asked ...read more

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  • I Once Read Of A Little Boy Who Used To Escape ...  PRO

    Contributed by C Jordan on Apr 25, 2006
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    I once read of a little boy who used to escape his bedroom after being punished. He would crawl out of his bedroom window down an old fruit tree to the ground. One day, his father told him that he was going to chop down the fruit tree, because it hadn’t borne any fruit for a number of years. That ...read more

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  • Faith's Supreme Longing Is For The Return Of ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on Apr 10, 2006
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    “Faith’s supreme longing is for the return of the glory that has departed from the sanctuary… If we today could rediscover the virtue in that Name, the victory in that Name, the violence in that Name, we ...read more

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  • Proverbs According To Kids: A First Grade ...

    Contributed by C Jordan on Apr 5, 2006
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    Proverbs According To Kids: A first grade teacher collected old, well known proverbs. She gave each kid in her class the first half of a proverb, and had them come up with the rest. As You Shall Make Your Bed So Shall You... Mess It Up. Better Be Safe Than... Punch A 5th Grader. Strike While ...read more

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