Contributed by Mark Eberly on Feb 19, 2009
Countries far and wide sought out Solomon. He gained influence and riches. Immediately after this passage, there is the story of two prostitutes who each had a baby. The mother of one child in her sleep rolled over and killed her child. She got up and switched her dead baby with the other women’s
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Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to try and retrieve the donkey.
So, he invited all his
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Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
Abraham Lincoln who said, “I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My wisdom and
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Contributed by Paul Carlson on Feb 21, 2009
A young, new preacher went to visit an older, more seasoned preacher for guidance because he felt stressed over the trials of pasturing a church. The older preacher took him out to his back yard -- walked up to a rosebush and handed the young preacher a rosebud and told him to open it without
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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One time the popular actress Sophia Loren sobbed to her Italian movie director, Vittorio De Sica, over the theft of some of her jewelry. And he said to her, “Listen to me, Sophia. I am much older than you and, if there is one great truth I have learned about life, it is this: NEVER CRY OVER
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Mar 30, 2009
DOVES AND DIRECTION
God’s people in the northern kingdom were acting like a dove, quite senseless and flitting back and forth between Assyria and Egypt as their protector—in spite of the fact that Yahweh, God of Armies ("Lord of Hosts") wanted to be their shield and defender. This is a powerful
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Contributed by Clark Tanner on Apr 28, 2009
"All knowledge that begins not and ends not with His glory, is but a giddy, but a vertiginous circle, but an
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Contributed by Martin Wiles on May 8, 2002
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I read a book some time ago entitled Wisdom Hunter. Randal Arthur, a missionary, wrote it. It told of a pastor who was involved in a denomination that controlled its people with traditions and their interpretations of God’s Word. He became disgusted with that and even turned away from God. Finally,
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