Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 26, 2007
The great philanthropist Stanley S. Kresge was often in the company of college presidents or other fund-raisers asking for endowment or financial aid. During the course of discussion, Mr. Kresge would always ask one question, "Do you think the world is better today than it was 2,000 years ago?" I’d
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A few weeks ago I visited my family physician, Dr. Stuckert. After a few minutes in the waiting room the nurse took me back. The first thing she did was weigh me, then she took my temperature. Then she asked, why I had come to see the doctor. I told her, I was having headaches for the last
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Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Sophie and Shirley, two elderly widows in a Florida adult community, are curious about the latest arrival in their building -- a quiet, nice looking gentleman who keeps to himself.
Shirley says, "Sophie, you know I’m shy. Why don’t you go over to him at the pool and find out a little about him. He
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Faith is alive and well in the 21st century. Science, technology and reason have not buried faith. Without faith, life is like a house without sunlight, window, or occupants; it will be a murky existence, all doom and gloom, and a leap in the dark. Without faith, the body is lifeless; it has no
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Contributed by Samson Musyoki on Sep 24, 2007
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It was on a Saturday evening after the open air meetings we usually had and we all gathered for a revival service in a hall within the institution we resided in. That evening the Holy Spirit visited the congregation and the hall could not contain the crowd anymore. Many left the hall and could be
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Pentecostal
Contributed by John Cuddeford on Nov 1, 2007
Captain Mitsuo Fuchida was the commander of the squadron that bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After the war he became a hero in Japan. Yet he felt his life was empty. Then he heard the amazing story of one of the American pilots, Jacob DeShazer, who had been captured and put in prison in
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When Revelation was given to John all the apostles had been murdered because a shift occurred in Rome’s dealing with the Christians:
Christian History Issue 27 notes: “The persecutors and their motives changed in A.D. 64. On July 19 that year a great fire engulfed much of Rome; only four of the
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Contributed by Dale Harlow on Dec 17, 2007
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But there was a time when you got to Christmas and it all slowed down. You would have the week between Christmas and New Year’s sort of as the holiday. It is not that you didn’t work during that time, but things slowed down significantly. But like those hospital stays it has been shortened
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Fred Sigle on Dec 20, 2007
It was Christmas eve, 1914. All was quiet on France’s western front, from the English Channel to the Swiss Alps. TRENCHES came within 50 miles of Paris. The war was only 5 months old then, but already 800,000 men and women had DIED or been WOUNDED. Every soldier wondered whether or not
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Scott Bradford on Mar 18, 2008
Pastor Trevor Hudson, South African Missionary & Evangelist (spoke at South Texas Conference of the UMC’s "Soul Fiesta" in San Antonio) told a story about a man who had been at a party, and he had too much to drink. He decided to walk home from the party, and one his way home he decided to take a
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United Methodist
Contributed by David Moore on Mar 20, 2008
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It’s hard to believe that body snatching is still going on. Of course during the 17th and early 18th centuries, body snatching was rife. A growing number of anatomists, keen to improve their medical knowledge, needed corpses on which to conduct dissections, bodies were difficult to come by, as it
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
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A man who flew his own plane got tired of the long auto trip from the airport to his country place, which was situated on a lovely lake. The idea came to him to equip his plane with pontoons, so he could land right in front of his cottage. However, on his first trip up to the country with his
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jun 4, 2008
The Wheelbarrow
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev used to tell of a time when there was a wave of petty theft in the Soviet Union.
To curtail this the authorities put up guards around the factories.
At one timberworks in Leningrad, the guard knew the workers in the factory very well.
The first
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Jun 10, 2008
An Altitude Problem
A few years ago, a couple of adventurers tried to become the first to circle the globe in a hot air balloon.
They took off from St. Louis, Missouri, rose to 24,000 feet, and started eastward across the Atlantic Ocean toward Africa.
The prevailing winds carried the balloonists
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