Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 30, 2008
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In the over 3100 years of recorded world history, the world has only been at peace 8% of the time or a total of 286 years, and over 8000 treaties have been made and broken. During this period there have been 14,531
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on May 21, 2008
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FATHER'S DAY CALLS
THE ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY reported that the volume of long-distance calls made on Father’s Day is growing faster than the number on Mother’s Day. The company apologized for the delay in compiling the statistics, but explained that
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 4, 2010
THE WEIGHT OF THE CROSS
When a group of churches advertised their Easter celebration, no reference was made to the cross. The omission was deliberate. One church official explained, "The cross carries too much cultural baggage."
The true weight of the cross is not in its
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Evie Megginson on Jul 12, 2001
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Clovis Chappell, a minister from a century back, used to tell the story of two paddleboats. They left Memphis about the same time, traveling down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. As they traveled side by side, sailors from one vessel made a few remarks about the snail’s pace of the other.
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 10, 2003
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ST. PATRICK, A BRIEF HISTORY
The uncontested, if somewhat unspecific, biographical facts about Patrick are as follows:
Patrick was born Patricius somewhere in Roman Britain to a relatively wealthy family. He was not religious as a youth and, in fact, claims to have practically renounced the faith
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Contributed by Gregory Fisher on Jul 1, 2004
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When I lived in Ghana I remember hearing about a certain man. He lived in a village near Kumasi that is known for the production of kinte cloth. You know these Ghanaians dress very smartly in their kinte cloth. This particular man was very talented at cloth weaving, and designed and wove a very
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Foursquare
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WE CAN BE SO SATISFIED HERE, WE REFUSE TO STEP TO THERE? Years ago 95% of all watches were SWISS MADE. The watches were mechanical, gears moving to keep time. For several decades all watches were made this way.
One day a man was dreaming and came up with a BETTER IDEA!
He invented the QUARTZ WATCH,
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by John Shearhart on Apr 29, 2008
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VOLUNTEERS AND SERVANTS
“Volunteers raise their hand to be called on.
Servants are called by the Hand of God.
Volunteers do work for God.
Servants do work with God.
Volunteers get tired of the work,
Servants are tired in the work.
Volunteers pray their work will succeed.
Servants succeed as
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Last winter while visiting a natural history museum in Colorado, I learned some remarkable facts about the aspen tree. An entire grove of slender, white-trunked aspens can grow from a single seed and share the same root system. These root systems can exist for thousands of years whether or not
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 21, 2002
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You are wrong if you do not vote.
You are to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. Our Caesar [in the United States] is a government of the people by the people for the people. One vote may make the difference.
ONE VOTE made Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of the Commonwealth and gave
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