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  • Holiness

    Contributed by Steven Wunderink on Jul 16, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 8,625 views

    Holiness My brothers and I collected Baseball cards as kids and we would play with them. How do you "play" with baseball cards? We would sort through them, divide them into teams, build our own allstar team, and sort out the duplicates for trading in school the next day. My brother was a BIG ...read more

  • Rock And A Soft Place, Citation: Anna Zogg, Salt ...  PRO

    Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 13, 2003
    based on 8 ratings
     | 2,423 views

    [Rock and a Soft Place, Citation: Anna Zogg, Salt Lake City, Utah. Christian Reader, "Lite Fare."] Soon after my brother moved, he made a point of meeting his new neighbors. He found that a Christian family lived on one side and an attorney on ...read more

  • Motives Are Critical!  PRO

    Contributed by Mike Leiter on Sep 2, 2003
    based on 16 ratings
     | 5,380 views

    Motives are critical! An elderly man on the beach found a magic lamp. He picked it up and a genie appeared. "Because you have freed me," the genie said, "I will grant you a wish." The man thought for a moment and then responded, "My brother and I had a fight 30 years ago and he hasn’t spoken to ...read more

  • Epaphroditus -…his Name Means "Charming." And ...  PRO

    Contributed by Robert Mitchell on Mar 6, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,580 views

    EPAPHRODITUS -…His name means “charming.” And what a charming winsome person he was. Paul uses four words to describe him, “brother, companion, fellow-soldier, and messenger.” The Greek word “brother,” means literally, “from the same womb.” It speaks of a common origin. A common origin speaks of a ...read more

  • Chekhov's Advice

    Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Sep 6, 2023
     | 657 views

    The great Russian playwright Anton Chekhov wrote to his younger brother in 1879 responding to a letter in which the brother had signed himself as “your insignificant and obscure little brother.” Chekhov’s answer to this false humility is classic. “Do you know,” Chekhov asked in reply, “before whom ...read more

  • A Mother Was Preparing Pancakes For Her Sons, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2001
    based on 145 ratings
     | 1,570 views

    A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. "If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, ’Let my brother have the first ...read more

  • The Law Of Christ Is The Bearing Of Others ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
     | 2,135 views

    "The law of Christ is the bearing of others burdens, the sharing of others griefs, sacrificing yourself for another.... This [is] the law of Christianity ... [and] of the saint. It is the only way to be saved. From the beginning it has always been so. A good way to test your love to God is by the ...read more

  • Imagine This ...

    Contributed by Todd Catteau on Oct 6, 2009
     | 2,718 views

    Imagine this scenario: You have been diagnosed with a rare blood disease and need a blood transfusion. But this transfusion must come from a sibling. To your knowledge you have no siblings, that is until your parents tell you a story they have kept secret for years. You do have a brother. Years ...read more

  • A Mother Was Preparing Pancakes For Her Sons, ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Nov 8, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 8,304 views

    A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. “If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, ‘Let my brother have the first pancake; I can ...read more

  • A Mother Who Was Preparing Pancakes For Her ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Simala Grant on Jul 18, 2003
    based on 16 ratings
     | 2,036 views

    A mother who was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake... Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. “If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, ‘Let my brother have the first ...read more

  • A Mother Was Preparing Pancakes For Her Sons, ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
     | 2,265 views

    A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. “If Jesus were sitting here, He would say ‘Let my brother have the first ...read more

  • Walking On Water  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Nov 20, 2005
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,863 views

    A man read an ad in the newspaper, “Hunting dog for sale, $2,500.00, but well worth it.” He called the number and the man told him that he had to see the dog in action. The next morning they met and went hunting early. The dog flushed two birds from a clump of bushes and when they fell into the ...read more

  • 65279;the Monks At A Remote Monastery Deep In ...  PRO

    Contributed by Paul Durbin on Feb 16, 2003
    based on 99 ratings
     | 4,129 views

    The monks at a remote monastery deep in the woods followed a rigid vow of silence. Their vow could only be broken once a year——on Valentine’s Day——by one monk. That monk could speak only one sentence. One Valentine’s Day, Brother Thomas had his turn to speak and said, "I love the ...read more

  • You Be Jesus!

    Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Apr 5, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 4,138 views

    YOU BE JESUS! A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. "If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, 'Let my brother have the first ...read more

  • Encouragement: -- There Were Four Boys, All ...  PRO

    Contributed by Larry Thornton on Nov 23, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,115 views

    Encouragement: -- There were four boys, all brothers, walking along the banks of a stream, and playing as they went. Like most boys, their idea of fun was to go as far into danger as they could, and at length one of them fell into a deep place. He could not swim, but immediately his brother who ...read more

  • Story: In A Small Country Village In Sicily, ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 27, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,213 views

    Story: In a small country village in Sicily, there were two brothers, renown members of the local Mafia. They were mean, bad and very rich. No one had a good word to say about them. Indeed, everyone seemed to have a story about how they had either been cheated or maligned by the ...read more

  • Giovanni Was A Saint

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jun 24, 2011
     | 2,636 views

    GIOVANNI WAS A SAINT In a small country village in Sicily, there were two brothers, renowned members of the local Mafia. They were mean, bad and very rich. No one had a good word to say about them. Indeed, everyone seemed to have a story about how they had either been cheated or maligned by the ...read more

  • A Mother Was Preparing Pancakes For Sons, Kevin ...  PRO

    Contributed by John Braland on Sep 27, 2006
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,172 views

    A mother was preparing pancakes for sons, Kevin who is 5, and Ryan who is 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson so she said: “If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, "Let my brother have the first ...read more

  • Two Young Boys Were Spending The Night At Their ...  PRO

    Contributed by Joel Vicente on Dec 27, 2003
    based on 21 ratings
     | 1,575 views

    Two young boys were spending the night at their grandparents’ house the week before Christmas. At bedtime, the two boys knelt beside their beds to say their prayers. The younger one began praying at the top of his lungs: "I PRAY FOR A NEW BICYCLE..." "I PRAY FOR A NEW NINTENDO..." His older brother ...read more

  • Fourth Of July Thoughts

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jun 2, 2009
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,409 views

    FOURTH OF JULY THOUGHTS A Quote from Band of Brothers: "They depended on each other. And the world depended on them." I say, "We need to depend on each other so that our community and country can depend on us." Quote from Band of Brothers: "There Was A Time When The World Asked Ordinary Men To Do ...read more

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