Contributed by Rhonda Feurtado on Jun 23, 2009
A pastor tells the story of visiting a refugee camp at Eglin air force base in the 1970s just after the Vietnam war where he found hundreds of refugees huddled under tents. Some were learning English, some were filling out government forms, some being taught to cook. Children were playing games. In
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In the fourth century, Cyril of Jerusalem tells catechumens what to do as they receive Holy Communion. We should make a throne of our two hands, laying the right hand upon the left to form a throne for the King. Try it right now. You are forming a cross, the cross that becomes a throne for the
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Economic science tells us that structural insecurity generates anti-productive attitudes wasteful of human resources, inasmuch as workers tend to adapt passively to automatic mechanisms, rather than to release creativity. On this point too, there is a convergence between economic science and moral
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Feb 3, 2010
Victor Shepherd tells the story of a missionary surgeon from the Gaza Strip in Israel. On one occasion this doctor stopped at a shack to see a woman on whom he had performed surgery. She and her husband were dirt poor. Their livestock consisted of one rabbit and two chickens. For income the
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2010
WHEN GOD TELLS YOU "NO"
Has God ever told me "No"? Yes, many times. Was it easy? Never!
The hardest time was a long time ago. My first son, James Daniel, was born with severe heart defects. I knew that God could heal him and prayed daily for my son's healing. A year later, after open heart
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Jun 5, 2011
I CAN'T TELL A LIE
A grandmother was looking after her two little grandchildren, a 7-year-old girl, and a 5-year-old boy, and both these children had been very, very naughty.
As the time drew near for their mother to pick them up, the little girl asked, "Are you going to tell Mummy how we
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"Scripture tells us that everything that exists does not exist by chance but is willed by God and part of his plan, at whose center is the invitation to partake, in Christ, in the divine life. Creation is born of the Logos and indelibly bears the mark of the creative Reason which orders and directs
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Apr 13, 2015
by Amy Carson Phillips
(Adapted by Melvin Newland)
“Night is falling on the Congo,
O’er the jungles far and near.
Soon the blackness will be brooding -
He who walks will walk in fear.
Yet no black man seeks his hut,
All are waiting on the shore,
Gazing, peering through the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 7, 2007
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A man was telling his neighbor in Trailer Estates, "I just bought a new hearing aid.
It cost me four thousand dollars, but it’s state of the art. It’s perfect."
"Really,"
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 23, 2007
Bob Russell, a preacher in Kentucky, tells of calling Baptist East Hospital late one night to check on one of his elderly members. The operator transferred him to a nurse who answered, "Pediatrics." Bob said, "Pediatrics? I’m checking on a lady that’s 87 years old! I’ve got the wrong floor." Bob
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 25, 2008
Russ Perman tells this story: "Working as a secretary at an international airport, my sister had an office adjacent to the room where security temporarily holds suspects. One day security officers were questioning a man when they were suddenly called away on another emergency. To the horror of my
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 23, 2008
Wayne Hariston tells this story (Reader’s Digest)
My wife and I get along just great—except she’s a back-seat driver second to none. On my way home from work one day, my cell phone rang as I merged onto a freeway bypass. It was my wife. By chance, she had entered the bypass right behind me.
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 6, 2008
Loretta tells the story of bringing a record player to school and playing an LP record. One child went home and said, "Mom, today I saw the biggest CD I’ve ever seen in my life!" The
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