Contributed by Ken Dillingham on Dec 25, 2003
One story of a Vietnam POW tells how that he would gather shiny quartz stones on a remote prison camp so that he could signal to passing US planes. He would carefully gather (during work detail) the stones and slowly worked to arrange SOS. The shiny quartz crystals reflecting the sun signaled his
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Apostolic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2004
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Our origin determines our destiny. It tells us who we are, why we are here, and how we should order our lives together in society.
Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey, How Now
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Sep 4, 2005
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In one of his books, James Emery White tells of the Russian-American comic, Yakov Smirnoff’s, initial response to the incredible variety of instant products available in American grocery stores. He said, "On my first shopping trip, I saw powdered milk--you just add water, and you get milk. Then I
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Church Of God
Contributed by Timothy Smith on Oct 15, 2005
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Paul Harvey tells the true story of a lady who went to a newspaper to report the death of her husband. She took a glowing four page report to the obituary counter. Upon seeing it, the news clerk said, "Ma’am, you should know that it costs $.50 a word to put that in the paper." Stunned, the wife
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Christian Church
Contributed by Shane Hart on Jan 13, 2006
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Charles Swindoll tells a story of when he and his sister would go fishing with their dad and grandfather.
There was a man who sat on the pier with the last name of Kutasch. As the story goes, he was a very unusual man and fished accordingly. With the slightest bobble of his cork, he would jerk
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Darryl Bell on Apr 17, 2006
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Roger Rose tells this story: When he was a boy more than 60 years ago, his young brother was fatally injured in a tragic accident. A dirt road ran alongside their house, and only on rare occasions would there be a car on it. But one day as his brother was crossing on his bike, a car came roaring
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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James S. Hewett tells this story. “A tyrannical husband demanded that his wife conform to rigid standards of his choosing. She was to do certain things for him as a wife, mother, and homemaker. In time she came to hate her husband as much as she hated his list of rules and regulations. Then,
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i. Quote: Evangelism is not what we tell people, unless what we tell is totally consistent with who we are. It is who we are that is going to make the difference. If we do not truly enjoy our faith, nobody is going to catch the fire of enjoyment from us. If our lives are not totally centered on
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell
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