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  • Attitude Is Everything".........by Francie ...

    Contributed by Don Hawks on Jun 25, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,172 views

    "Attitude Is Everything".........By Francie Baltazar-Schwartz (from upbeatnews.net) Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be ...read more

  • Teddy Stallard Story

    Contributed by Vera Hughes on Feb 20, 2008
     | 5,871 views

    Story: Teddy Stallard Story Teddy Stallard certainly qualified as "one of the least": disinterested in school; musty, wrinkled clothes; hair never combed; one of those kids in school with a deadpan face; an expressionless, glassy, unfocused stare. When Miss Thompson spoke to Teddy he always ...read more

  • Not Missing, Holidaying. Sorry Everyone. By Dan ...

    Contributed by Stephen Robinson on Mar 21, 2008
     | 1,658 views

    Not Missing, holidaying. Sorry everyone. By Dan Oakes From the Sydney Morning Herald 11th March 2008 The homicide squad had called the media to the home of Roy and Heather Ostell. The news, it seemed, was grim. The couple had vanished, and their daughters had not heard from Dr Ostell, 63, and ...read more

  • Mike The Headless Chicken

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 2, 2008
     | 1,830 views

    Mike the Headless Chicken On September 10, 1945, Mike’s short life was about to take a turn for the worse. On this day, Mike received a death sentence. His owners, Lloyd and Clara Olsen, decided that it was time to slaughter a group of birds, some to sell and to prepare others for themselves. Out ...read more

  • Mike The Headless Chicken

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 2, 2008
     | 1,170 views

    Mike the Headless Chicken On September 10, 1945, Mike’s short life was about to take a turn for the worse. On this day, Mike received a death sentence. His owners, Lloyd and Clara Olsen, decided that it was time to slaughter a group of birds, some to sell and to prepare others for themselves. Out ...read more

  • Mike The Headless Chicken  PRO

    Contributed by Terry Blankenship on Apr 2, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,092 views

    Mike the Headless Chicken On September 10, 1945, Mike’s short life was about to take a turn for the worse. On this day, Mike received a death sentence. His owners, Lloyd and Clara Olsen, decided that it was time to slaughter a group of birds, some to sell and to prepare others for themselves. Out ...read more

  • The Weak Will Shame The Wise

    Contributed by Paul Dietz on Jun 19, 2008
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,114 views

    THE WEAK WILL SHAME THE WISE We have to come to the realization that life is much more than brokenness. According to God’s word, we are vessels of honor which contain the power and glory of the Christ. I, too, have had a problem with such thinking throughout the years. How can I, a vessel of honor ...read more

  • Attitude Is Everything" By Francie Baltazar ...

    Contributed by Shane Hargrave on Mar 31, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,891 views

    "Attitude Is Everything" by Francie Baltazar Schwartz Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a unique manager ...read more

  • Everything Looks Different

    Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 27, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,973 views

    “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” - Thornton Wilder It was the anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union when he got the call from Moscow. Some of the Russian oil companies had abandoned their wells, left their rigs with the ...read more

  • Death

    Contributed by Don Berry-Graham on Feb 29, 2016
     | 7,483 views

    IN LATE WINTER DURING THE FIFTY-NINTH YEAR of his life, John Donne braved the weather and rough roads of the English countryside to keep his final preaching engagement before the king in London. He had spent most of that winter, what would be his last, battling “consumption,” and on several ...read more

  • Unsung Heroes: Simeon Of Jerusalem

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Dec 27, 2020
     | 2,316 views

    Introduction: Mary and Joseph weren’t the only ones eagerly awaiting the birth of Jesus. Under the Law of Moses, every male child was to be circumcised. Joseph and Mary took Baby Jesus to the Temple where this surgery would be performed on the Baby. While they were in the Temple, they received ...read more

  • A Little Girl's Prayer  PRO

    Contributed by Tim Zingale on Oct 15, 2001
    based on 110 ratings
     | 8,950 views

    A LITTLE GIRL’S PRAYER One night I had worked hard to help a mother in the labor ward; but in spite of all we could do she died, leaving us with a tiny premature baby and a crying two-year-old daughter. We would have difficulty keeping the baby alive, as we had no incubator (we had no electricity ...read more

  • It Was An Unusually Cold Day For The Month Of ...  PRO

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Nov 1, 2004
    based on 10 ratings
     | 5,240 views

    It was an unusually cold day for the month of May. Spring had arrived and everything was alive with color. But a cold front from the north had brought winter’s chill back to Indiana. I sat with two friends in the picture window of a quaint restaurant just off the corner of the town squire. The food ...read more

  • Just As We Are!" Exodus 14:13-14 Key Verse(S) ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Apr 29, 2005
    based on 5 ratings
     | 4,221 views

    “Just As We Are!” Exodus 14:13-14 Key verse(s) 14:“The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Keeping a positive outlook on life is pretty hard when nothing much positive seems to be happening in your life. Let’s face it, when things are going bad, really bad, there is nothing worse ...read more

  • In The Chronicles Of Narnia, Several Young ...  PRO

    Contributed by Glenn Robertson on Nov 16, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 2,521 views

    In The Chronicles of Narnia, several young children represent Christians in a world of dragons, elves, unicorns, and many other mythical creatures. One of the children is a young boy named Eustace. Eustace is a very selfish boy. He always tries to see life for how it best benefits him. What he ...read more

  • Will There Be Television In Heaven?

    Contributed by James Snyder on Jun 6, 2020
     | 2,563 views

    If anybody can ask hard questions, the award has to go to the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. She knows how to ask a question and, more importantly, when to ask a particular question. Throughout our marriage, she has become an expert in the area of questionology. There is not a question I can ...read more

  • So You Think Sins Don’t Matter?

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Sep 12, 2022
     | 734 views

    Introduction: Have you ever heard someone say, “Oh, sin doesn’t matter” or anything like that? There are plenty of times when, in the Bible, when it certainly did. Would you believe that only two major sins cost Israel thousands of their population? Let’s take a look. Text: Numbers 1:44-46, KJV: ...read more

  • Friends Forever. Wow Those Are Some Very Powerful ...  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Gardner on Jan 4, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 1,873 views

    Friends Forever. Wow those are some very powerful words when you put them together you know? I mean, think about what this phrase means: being a friend forever; always there no matter what. This popular phrase can be found in letters from one best friend to another, on the split necklaces when put ...read more

  • April 29, ...

    Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
     | 2,179 views

    April 29, 2003 Because Trent Dilfer is a public figure, the death Sunday of his 5-year-old son Trevin is news. It’s sad news. Even those critical of Dilfer the football player surely feel for Dilfer the man and his family. Five-year-olds aren’t supposed to die, they’re supposed to go to ...read more

  • Smell The Rain

    Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 26, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,893 views

    Smell The Rain A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. Still groggy from surgery, her husband David held her hand as they braced themselves for the latest news. That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications ...read more