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GOOD versus GREAT
Bill Cosby said it this way:
God made a tree and said it was (pause) Good.
God made a rabbit and said it was (pause) Good.
Man made the refrigerator and said it was Amazing.
Man made the car and said it was Awesome or Fabulous.
We are fanatical about our creations. Praising
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 29, 2008
BUSINESS IS ALWAYS GOOD
I had a man in my last congregation who was in the snack business. He was part of a small company which supplied chips and pretzels and the like to mini markets and various retail outlets. One afternoon I asked Albert how business was, good or bad, up or down.
He looked at
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 3, 2008
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John Stott writes,
"Not all envy is tainted with selfishness, because it is not always either a grudging discontent or a sinful covetousness. At base, envy is the desire to have for oneself something possessed by another. And whether envy is good or evil depends on the nature of the something
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jan 12, 2009
"WHAT GOOD ARE YOU?"
Hideyoshi, a Japanese warlord who ruled over Japan in the late 1500s, commissioned a colossal statue of Buddha for a shrine in Kyoto. It took 50,000 men five years to build, but the work had scarcely been completed when the earthquake of 1596 brought the roof of the shrine
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 1, 2009
THE PURPOSE OF GOOD LIGHTING
To convince the people of Philadelphia of the advantage of street lighting, Benjamin Franklin decided to show his neighbors be placing one in front of his house. He purchased an attractive lantern, polished the glass, and placed it on an extended pole in front of his
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 12, 2009
GOOD AND EVIL KIDNEYS
According to the Talmud, "Our Rabbis taught: Man has two kidneys, one of which prompts him to good, the other to evil; and it is natural to suppose that the good one is on his right side and the bad one on his left, as it is written, ’A wise man’s
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Feb 24, 2008
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• I want to tell you a story about Paul Morphy was the world’s champion chess player in the 19th century. One day he was invited by a friend to look at a valuable painting titled, “the chess player.” in the painting, Satan was represented as playing chess with a young man, the stake being the young
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Contributed by Steve Malone on Jun 26, 2002
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Today, is Father’s Day “Happy Father’s Day!” I thought I’d start out today by sharing a few precious dad moments.. Moments that would only happen to a dad and only a dad would appreciate…
PRECIOUS DAD MOMENT #1
One night a wife found her husband standing over their newborn baby’s crib.
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