Contributed by Timothy Darling on Oct 20, 2008
Using grape juice is a practice that began right here in Vineland when Dr. Thomas Welch, a dentist was visited one Sunday afternoon by a drunken man, who had begun his binge with communion. Welch was a prohibitionist and the Communion Steward at Vineland Methodist Church, so he experimented with
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Mennonite
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Oct 22, 2008
In 1858, a scientific expedition passed through what we now call the Grand Canyon. A young lieutenant by the name of Ives made the following entry in his report:
"This region we last explored, the Grand Canyon, is, of course, altogether valueless. It can be approached only from the south, and
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Michael Wiley on Jan 28, 2009
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WHY NOT ME?
I watched a TV show called, "What Would You Do?" They put actors into everyday situations with hidden cameras to see heat the people around will do.
Last week they sent an actor into a grocery store. The actor asks to cut in line. When he gets up to the check out, lights and music
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jan 30, 2009
LAMININ
Now here is the craziest thing. It is amazing. Some of you probably have seen this. In Christ, all things are held together. The heavens. The earth. And even our bodies. This is amazing. It is totally outrageous. And we call it Laminin. I first heard this through a preach named Louie
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Church Of God
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 18, 2010
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From the Associated Press
RIVERTON, Wyo. – Officials say a magnifying glass set on a stand in a sunny room started a small blaze in a Wyoming home. UPS worker Buddy Armstrong was delivering a package to 84-year-old Thomas Guthrie's Dubois home on Tuesday when he heard an alarm inside. Armstrong,
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 23, 2010
I was in Milton Keynes on Friday; meeting with a potential guest speaker for our Church weekend away in the autumn of 2011. We were chatting away; I had just mentioned that the peace of Jesus was to be a major theme this morning, and at that moment we noticed that outside there was a flock of doves
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Anglican
Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Apr 26, 2010
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BORN INTO THE FAMILY
Pastor Wayne Cordeiro, in Leading on Empty, writes of his daughter, adopted when only three days old. The apple of his eye, Abby, compromised her faith and morality, making choices that expelled her from college, and for two years was searching for her identity, struggling why
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Salvation Army
Contributed by David Moore on May 26, 2010
GOD-FANATICS
Did you know that an online survey of 20 000 football fans revealed that 51% said they would starve themselves for a week if that would bring victory in the upcoming World Cup to their national squad. More than 40% offered to give up dating for a year, 7% said they would gladly give
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Baptist
Contributed by Thomas Donelan on Aug 4, 2010
He wanted to get out from out of the sphere of his father’s influence. Think about it, every year we get flooded in Florida for about a week or so every year with a bunch of college students for a thing called “spring break” and these kids go out and get drunk, do drugs, get their groove on, and
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Nov 6, 2010
GOD, CAN YOU HEAR ME?
"My future seemed so uncertain and I was asking, 'God, can you hear me?'"
I’ve got three children and ever since they were babies my wife Moira has heard every single murmur. Even now that they are 16, 12 and 7 she hears them when they call out from their beds and when she
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Anglican
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 14, 2010
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HEROIC FAILURE
The Book of Heroic Failures, was written by Stephen Pile in 1979. It is a book written in celebration of human inadequacy in all its forms.
My favourite story took part in 1978. During the fireman’s strike in England, the British army took over emergency fire-fighting and drove the
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Brethren
Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 27, 2010
LAUGH OR DIE
In writing about Lincoln’s Civil War years, author Richard Hanser says that on September 22, 1862, the War Cabinet was summoned to the White House for a special session. Lincoln was reading a book as everyone came in. Secretary of War Stanton later said this of the meeting:
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Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Feb 14, 2011
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THROUGH THE DARKNESS
(John 1:1-14)
It’s a dark night and even though your car headlights are on and shining brightly, you notice how dark it is outside: it’s a dark night.
You have been driving through the night, a long way from your home, but you will soon be home.
Even after your long drive
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Baptist
THE ARTIST AND THE GARDENER
Both the artist and the gardener begin with contemplation, paying close attention to what is already there.
The gardner looks carefully at the landscape; the existing plants, both flowers and weeds; the way the sun falls on the land, and so on. The artist regards their
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Baptist