Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 14, 2009
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SIGNS ONLY EXPOSE REALITY
Signs do not create a reality; they merely expose it. For example, a sign on a highway may read "Chicago: 160 miles". If we changed the sign to read "60 miles" instead, it wouldn't change the fact that Chicago is really 160 miles away.
Truth doesn't change, no matter
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
GOOD GUYS, BUT NOT GOD'S GUYS
It is time for the NFL draft, and NFL teams are about to spend millions of dollars on unknown commodities called college players. Some of them pan out and many don’t. In order to narrow the risk with so much money at stake, they are now looking at the character of
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 30, 2009
UNMARKED POLICE CAR
As my husband, the county highway commissioner, was driving to the hospital for treatment of his painful leg, he decided to use the valet parking service so he wouldn’t have to walk far. Staring at his official-looking vehicle, one of the valets asked my husband if he was
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Apr 27, 2009
OBJECT LESSON: YOUR REPUTATION
(Light a candle on stage.) It’s easy to keep a fire going. What do you do to it? Not much. You work to get it started, and then it pretty much burns on its own. You may have to protect it, maybe do a little maintenance on it. But the fire is automatic. But if
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Thomas Cash on May 14, 2009
William Barclay said: "The disaster that happened to Peter could have happened to the most heroic of us. All the others ran away; Peter did not. To enter the courtyard—-the very center of the high priest’s house-—was to
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Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
FAREWELL, PRESIDENT
An on-line friend directed my attention this week by to a recently published note by one of our nation’s most distinguished church historians, Dr. Martin Marty on the eve of President Obama’s inauguration. It was titled, "Farewell, President" and in it he quoted the late
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Church Of God
Contributed by Bruce Howell on May 20, 2009
DAD, ARE YOU GOD?
One day after church, the pastor asked his little boy what he learned in Sunday school. The lad said, "I learned that God loves me more than anything else in the whole world."
"What else did you learn?" asked his dad. "I learned that when I’m bad, He spanks real hard."
"What
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Tyler Edwards on May 26, 2009
THE APOSTLE JOHN
Here are some of the things we know about John, John was one of the apostles. In fact he was the youngest apostle. His brother was the apostle James who is beheaded in Acts 12. He is the only apostle to not be martyred for his faith. And he walked in the inner circle of Jesus.
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
A young police officer was taking his final exam for the police academy and he was set the following problem to solve.
"You are on patrol in the outer city when an explosion occurs in a gas main in a nearby street. On investigation you find that a large hole has been blown in
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Anglican
THE RICH MAN AND THE POOR CARPENTER
One day a good, rich man noticed the miserable conditions in which a certain poor carpenter lived. He decided to help the poor man and commissioned him to build a beautiful house. He told the carpenter, "I want this house to be ideal. Use only the best
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sidney Sumida on Oct 6, 2009
TRIALS EXPOSE THE TRUE HEART
Circumstances that are hard and difficult will bring out the best and worst in people. When the terrorist attack happened to our nation on 9/11, we saw this timeless truth acted out right before our very eyes. Some of the greatest acts of heroism were demonstrated by
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Charismatic
Contributed by Sidney Sumida on Oct 6, 2009
DEPENDENT ON GOD
In the past few decades, there were some huge storms that hit our nation of which were Hurricane Pamela, and Hurricane Katrina, to name a few... (and, yes, not to bias about gender, there was big bad Hurricane Andrew, too). Here in the islands, we have had our share of storms as
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Contributed by Bruce Rzengota on Dec 28, 2009
Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (born June 30, 1966) was the undisputed heavyweight champion and remains the youngest man ever to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles. He won the WBC title at just 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old, after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second
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