Contributed by Scott Bradford on Jun 20, 2013
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TWO MILES OF DITCH
I was headed home late from a wedding reception and had about a two hour drive when a friend said to me, "Remember that for every mile you drive there are two miles of ditch".
I was in the car before that really sunk in, and then it hit me, for every path we walk, there are
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Contributed by Timothy Darling on Oct 23, 2008
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Stay on the Path
On vacation I hiked a pass overlooking the Loyalsock Creek in the mountains of Pennsylvania. It was a difficult incline that I estimate in many places to have been sixty degrees. There was a stern warning at the head of the trail that you should not stray from the path. As I
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Mennonite
LIGHTS FOR OUR PATH
A couple of years ago, I went outside after dark to look at the stars in ways we couldn’t while back in Minnesota. I stepped from the porch, with the lights of course, and then I tripped on the water-hose. Down I went, taking my wife and daughter with me. Truth be known —
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Lutheran
Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
TAKING THE GOOD PATH
The media interviewed the second Chilean miner freed, and here is what he said, "The time down there changed me. God had one hand and the devil had the other hand, and when I was down there, I decided to let go of the devil and hold onto God. I buried 40 years of my life down
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 22, 2010
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IS THERE GRASS ON YOUR PATH?
In one region of Africa, the first converts to Christianity were very diligent about praying. In fact, the believers each had their own special place outside the village where they went to pray in solitude. The villagers reached these "prayer rooms" by using their own
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Brethren
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An ancient Scottish legend has this story.
A shepherd boy was tending a few sheep on the side of a mountain. One day while wandering in the wilderness, he came to a huge cave. There was a door to the cave and it was closed. And as he was looking around, he noticed a very beautiful flower.
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
BELIEVING THE ANCIENT RECORD
On January 6, 1822, Heinrich Schliemann was born. He would one day achieve world renown and great wealth. When Heinrich Schliemann was seven years old, a picture of ancient Troy in flames captured his imagination. Contrary to what many people believed, Heinrich argued
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity. And on
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Contributed by Sean Harder on Aug 5, 2011
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TRUST THE NARROW, UNBEATEN PATH
When I was younger I went hiking up Golden Ears Mountain. Several years earlier I went with my school and there was a nice rope bridge that crossed the waterfalls to keep you on the trail up the top of the mountain. The path that led to the bridge was wide, covered
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2005
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There is an ancient door on display in St. Patrick’s cathedral in Dublin, Ireland. The rough hewn door has a rectangular hole hacked out in its center. It is called the “Door of Reconciliation,” and gives rise to the Irish expression of “chancing one’s arm.” In 1492, two prominent Irish families,
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