Contributed by David Yarbrough on Jun 24, 2001
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It’s like the story of the boy who was shooting rocks with a slingshot. He could never hit his target. As he was in his Grandma’s backyard one day, h spied her pet duck. On impulse h took aim and let fly. The stone hit, and the duck was dead. “The boy panicked and hid the bird in the woodpile,
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ILLUSTRATION: “Cocoon”
The cocoon of the Emperor moth is flask like in shape. To develop into a perfect insect, it must force its way through the neck of the cocoon by hours of intense struggle. Entomologists explain that this pressure to which the moth is subjected is nature’s way of forcing a
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Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jun 13, 2005
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A Parking Spot in Heaven! (06.16.05--The Tie That Binds--Psalm 51:12 )
What motivates you? Why do you go to work every day? What causes you to get out of a warm bed where you may have been dreaming contentedly and plant those feet down on the hard floor ready to launch into another day?
I am an
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Contributed by Paul Dietz on Jun 20, 2008
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I recently read a peculiar story about a family in Lander, Wyoming that had gone to their local refuse dump to dispose of some unwanted family items that were either busted or greatly abused. As they were emptying there junk into a large dumpster, the man of the home saw something that caught his
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Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Oct 22, 2009
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BECAUSE WE ARE HUMAN, WE SIN
A dog barks because it is a dog. It does not become a dog because it barks. Its ‘doginess’ makes it a dog, it’s in its DNA.
Humans are not proved to be human because we sin; it is because we are human that we sin. Though still bearing he image of God, which
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How many of you remember bluing solution? Way back in the early to mid ‘60’s, Mom and Grandma would never finish a load of wash (laundry, if you prefer!) without adding some bluing when they did the whites. Now, I never understood why they did this but one of the two explained it kind of like this:
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Do you remember Edgar Allen Poe's story, ... The Telltale Heart?
In that story, ... the main character committed a murder ... and he buries the body of the victim ...in his basement.
Yet ... the murderer is unable to escape the haunting guilt... of his deed.
He begins to hear...... the
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Anglican