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How would you feel if an animal spoke to you? The story is told of a man who bought a beautiful, exotic, tropical parrot from a local pet store. The pet store owner said that the parrot could talk and after demonstrating a few sentences the customer was impressed so he bought him and took him
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Baptist
Contributed by Dana Chau on Sep 9, 2002
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Biochemist, Dr. Duane Gish, notes, "Evolution is the most wasteful, inefficient and cruel method that could ever be devised to create living things ... mutations (the process of evolution) leads almost always to bad outcomes: crippling, sickness, disfigurements and deaths. Good mutations are rare
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Contributed by Sheila Crowe on Sep 26, 2002
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A nationwide survey of 2200 seven to eleven years old by the Foundation for Child’s Development indicated that most American children feel good about their lives, their families, and just being themselves. But more than two-thirds are also afraid. Afraid of “someone bad” skulking around their
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United Methodist
Contributed by James Wilson on Nov 22, 2000
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"Excessive worry, or what I call toxic worry, can make you sick, it can cut down your enjoyment of life, and it can hamper your productivity. Toxic worry is bad for every system in your body: it increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes, it impairs digestion, it causes shortness of breath,
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 20, 2006
A Note written by one of the miners who died in the West Virginia mining accident was made public. ‘Tell all I’ll see them on the other side," family members say one scrawled note, found with the body of 51-year-old mine foreman
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
Recently I read about a Pastor who had a thorn. He had just started - getting involved in teaching and preaching and sensing that it might be some area of calling for him.
It was on a Sunday morning at this church and five minutes into his message he started to get dizzy and woozy and the room
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Contributed by Warren Lamb on Nov 29, 2006
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Cradles The Shaped The World
An example Charles Swindoll uses is the year 1809. The international scene was tumultuous and turbulent that year. Napoleon Bonaparte was sweeping through Austria on his quest to rule the world, and blood was flowing freely. Nobody cared much about babies being born in
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by A. David Hart on Apr 13, 2008
the law was to remind us that we were guilty for violating that law, the down side of that was that the law did not provide a satisfactory pardon for anyone who broke the law. So the law has its limitations. I am reminded of something that recently happened to my older brother. He is a long
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Baptist
A SERMON
I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day.
I’d rather one should walk with me than merely show the way.
The eye’s a better pupil, and more willing than the ear;
Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear.
So I’d rather get my lesson by observing what you do;
It is not
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Gaither Bailey on Dec 15, 2009
DIRECTION SIGNS
In my time with the children a few weeks ago I spoke with them about road signs. As I prepared this message, I thought about how we have become a nation of signs: Some of them are helpful and some are not. Some signs cause us to pause and ask, “What were they thinking?”
Some
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Presbyterian/Reformed