In December 1925, guests at the swankiest hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, watched with interest as a mysterious man arrived in a Rolls-Royce driven by a chauffeur. Over the next days they studied this handsome man, who walked with an elegant cane, received telegrams at all hours, and only engaged
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 22, 2007
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FATHER’S DAY: A TRIBUTE by Max Lucado.
Today is Father’s Day. A day of cologne. A day of hugs, new neckties, long-distance phone calls, and Hallmark cards.
Today is my first Father’s Day without a father. For thirty-one years I had one. I had one of the best. But now he’s gone.
He’s
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Ken Pell on Oct 19, 2009
In the book “101 Romantic Ideas” Laura Jeanne Allen tells the following story.
My Grandfather and Grandmother were married for over half a century, and played their own special game from the time they had met each other. The goal of their game was to write the word "SHMILY" in a surprise place
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Main Idea: When a person is caught sinning, he or she often tries to make an excuse, but the reality is that no excuse can justify a person’s sin.
Verse: “Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate” (Genesis 3:12 NKJV).
One day my wife Jessica
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Charismatic
People have pursued joy in every avenue imaginable. Some have successfully found it while others have not. Perhaps it would be easier to describe where joy cannot be found:
• Not in Unbelief — Voltaire was an infidel of the most pronounced type. He wrote: “I wish I had never been born… (and at his
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Contributed by Daniel Haas on May 8, 2009
THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE
The Golden Rule is common sense. The most concise version is to be found in the works of Immanuel Kant and goes by the name of the Categorical Imperative:
"Act only according to that maxim
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Congregational
Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 11, 2000
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"An invalid was told that she could never escape from his prison of pain and weakness. ’Oh, well,’ she replied, ’there is a lot of living to be found within your
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Contributed by John Cuddeford on Oct 18, 2002
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The management regrets that it has come to their attention that workers dying on the job are failing to fall down. This practice must stop, as it becomes impossible to distinguish between death and the natural movement of the staff.
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Aug 20, 2012
Patrick Henry: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of
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Baptist