Contributed by Jeremy Houck on Jun 4, 2005
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In his book In the Eye of the Storm, Max Lucado tells about something that happened to him while he was in high school. Every year, he and his family used to go fishing during spring break. But one year, his brother and his mom couldn’t go, so his dad let him invite a friend.
They looked forward
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Jan 21, 2008
In China many years ago there lived an old man, with his son and a horse. Back in those days, having a horse was like owning a car today, so you can well imagine how valuable a property the animal must have been. One morning, when the man went to his field to feed the horse, the animal was gone.
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 6, 2001
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Sometimes His ways are hard to understand at the time, I can offer a personal example: Teenage children can be quite a trial, even a pain! 25 years ago my son was! He was keen on old vehicles that he intended to renovate. Against my better judgement, so I thought at the time, he acquired an old
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Contributed by Joel Pankow on Jun 21, 2001
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In the movie, Remember the Titans, the coach pushed the students to the brink of their abilities. Some accused him of trying to ruin them and break their spirits. But by pushing them - he made them stronger. It prepared them for a difficult season of football - and in the end they went
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Contributed by James Botts on Aug 29, 2002
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The Bible says that we can miss God’s mark of perfection with our thoughts, words, or deeds. In commission (what we’ve done wrong) and omission (what we ought to have done right). Imagine if you’ve only sinned 10, no 5, no just 3x per day in though, word and deed (commission and/or omission).
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Contributed by Louis Bartet on Mar 16, 2003
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In the 1999 movie "Instinct," Anthony Hopkins plays an anthropologist and primatologist, Ethan Powel, who is being held in a maximum security prison for the critically insane. Cuba Gooding’s character is an ambitious psychiatrist, Dr. Theo Caulder, who is asked to evaluate Powel. At one point in
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Contributed by David Ward on Dec 16, 2004
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David Peterson, former pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Spokane, Washington, told about a time when he was preparing his sermon. His little daughter came in and said, "Daddy, can we play?" He answered, "I’m awfully sorry, Sweetheart, but I’m right in the middle of preparing this sermon.
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Contributed by Robert Marsh on Mar 18, 2005
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In the last movie of the Lord of the Rings trilogy “The Return of the King,” there is a scene where a man is dying of his wounds, and his daughter runs to his side. As she places her face over his, he fixes his eyes on her, and in the midst of his shock and pain, his bearded face breaks into a
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jul 29, 2006
Often we think, or at least live like, if no one on earth knows then God won’t... but can we sin in obscurity? Mitch is married to Barbara and Ed, one of his best friends, is questioning Mitch on this very concept by asking if Mitch would stay faithful if he knew Barbara would never find
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Oct 28, 2006
Air Conditioner.
First house we owned was quite old and a lot of things didn’t work quite right.
Our air conditioner broke every year.
It would cool down the house then, become a heater heat it up, then cool it down.
Not how an air conditioner should work.
First year called the company who had
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 3, 2007
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TRIUMPH
(By Jim L. Davey)
It was a dark & sullen morn, as several women approached the tomb,
With breaking hearts and deepest gloom,
The furthest thing from their minds.....was triumph
Why did He have to die they asked, each other on the road that morn,
It made no sense, their hearts were
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Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Aug 30, 2010
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LIFE IN OPPOSITION
When I was young, we used to go camping up at the Lodgepole Campground in Sequoia National Park. I think it was the campground at the highest altitude, and we liked it because it wasn’t always as crowded as the lower campgrounds. Now, I always thought the campground was named
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POPE FRANCIS: FULFILLING HIS ROLE
A wonderful story of a religious leader who really does "get it" is the new Pontiff of Rome, Pope Francis. It is the story of role fulfillment.
One reporter wrote: "Last night, in a break from tradition the Pope, Pope Francis, did not celebrate what is called
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