Contributed by David Dewitt on Apr 1, 2001
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Benjamin Franklin learned that plaster sown in the fields would make things grow. He told his neighbors, but they did not believe him and they argued with him trying to prove that plaster could be of no use at all to grass or grain.
After a little while he allowed the matter to drop and said
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 7, 2008
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Small things add up. They fill spaces in our lives that tend to squeeze out the more important things. Sand can bury a car, a house, or a person. Grains of sand are very small but when they are combined with a large number of other grains of sand, it is a force to be reckoned with.
Sand also
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Contributed by Robert Castile on Nov 24, 2003
Two Brothers
Two brothers worked together on the family farm. One was married and had a large family. The other was single. At the day’s end, the brothers shared everything equally, produce and profit.
Then one day the single brother said to himself, ’’It’s not right that we should share equally
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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John Hess Yoder writes in Leadership magazine:
While serving as a missionary in Laos, I discovered an illustration of the kingdom of God. Before the colonialists imposed national boundaries, the kings of Laos and Vietnam reached an agreement on taxation in the border areas. Those who ate
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 18, 2007
8 ½ years ago, a friend & deacon from our church in Mississippi, came down to Florida with Gladys & I. I remember when he got here; that he walked around what is now the pavilion. Then it was the barn on my folks’ place. He walked around, looking at the barn, the yard & such, then he said, “You
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 9, 2012
THE SHIP OF THE CHURCH
In Wheat That Springeth Green, author J.F. Powers has one of his characters say, "This is a big old ship. She creaks, she rocks, she rolls, and at times she makes you want to throw up. But she gets where she’s going. Always has, always
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"At each New Year it is common to make new resolutions, but in the life of the individual, each day is the beginning of a New Year, if he will only make it so. A mere date on the calendar is no more a
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Contributed by Kevin Higgins on Feb 15, 2003
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In 1928 a group of the world’s most successful financiers met at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. The following were present: The president of the largest utility company, The greatest wheat speculator, The president of the New York Stock Exchange, A member of the President’s Cabinet, The
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Mar 19, 2002
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There once was an oyster whose story I tell,
Who found that sand had got under his shell;
Just one little grain, but it gave him much pain,
For oysters have feelings although they’re so plain.
Now, did he berate the working of Fate
Which had led him to such a deplorable state?
Did he curse
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