Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 23, 2009
A March 2009 AP article demonstrates how sinful attitudes are passed on from one generation to another: "PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A Rhode Island woman is accused of punching and biting her 11-year-old son’s school principal after she was told the boy was being suspended.
Police say 30-year-old Aleyda
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 22, 2025
New Zealand, Feb. 26 [2016] (UPI) -- Members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, otherwise known as Pastafarians, registered their first official marriage celebrant in New Zealand.
The group announced the news on its Facebook page, although the first couple that was set to be married by
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2001
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A prisoner who just couldn’t take any more pulled a daring escape from the county jail in Fordyce, Arkansas. He would have been better off staying put: as the man was escaping, a county judge was ordering his immediate release because he had been locked up too long due to a clerical error. The
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Your affirmation can help to effect that sense of importance in another. Sometimes the touch of love is more verbal than physical. Sherman Rogers has written a book about logging in the Pacific Northwest.
As a young man he worked in a logging camp, and on one occasion the boss needed to be away
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Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Feb 21, 2008
Christian Herter was the governor of Massachusetts in the 1950’s the story is told of a time when he was campaigning, when he came across someone whom he was about to ignore, but found himself having to notice. Apparently, he was having a really hard day campaigning, missed his lunch and came in
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Jun 29, 2010
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WHO SAYS SO?
A previous church I served had a lot of acreage and had turned part of it into 3 softball diamonds. Monday - Thursday nights, all summer long, various church leagues played their slow-pitch games there. Three of the leagues ran everything for their evening but one league was run
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 15, 2002
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In answer to William Ernest Henley’s "Invictus", charging that he is the captain of his soul, leaving no room for Christ’s work on the cross, Dorothea Day answers him in her poem, "My Captain". What a great comparison between the heresy of salvation by works and salvation by grace:
Out of the
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Contributed by Jeff Simms on Jul 15, 2003
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Gene Getz once said of God’s plan for Joseph that:
At age thirty, Joseph could never have handled this world-class task without
an intensive and experience oriented course in management. It began in
Potiphar’s house, where he managed all of his affairs. It continued in prison
where he was
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Ernest Gordon’s Miracle on the River Kwai:
The Scottish soldiers, forced by their Japanese captors to labour on a jungle railroad, had degenerated to barbarous behaviour, but one afternoon something happened. A shovel was missing. The officer in charge became enraged. He demanded that the missing
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 19, 2006
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Lillian Pearsall of Moravia, N.Y. tells this story of when she was a telephone operator.
A customer talked overtime on a long-distance call from a pay telephone booth. Even with my friendly reminders, he refused to deposit his overtime coins. Instead he slammed down the phone, irate and verbally
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Arrogance
The story goes that the admiral, looking out from his command post on the deck looked out and saw lights in the distance, clearly heading straight for him. He radioed the message ahead: “Turn aside, 10 degrees starboard.” The radio beeped back – “Negative. Advise you turn aside 10 degrees
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