Contributed by Timothy Smith on Jan 7, 2006
Video Clip from movie "Ray"
Chapter:13 Start:1:09:26 End:1:12:06 - 2:40
This clip shows Ray Charles as a child falling down and his mother painfully watching (not rescuing) him
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Charles Spurgeon says:
You look at man as he is, and what can he do? He can do nothing! Jesus already says, 'Apart from Me, you can do nothing.' (John 15:5) But look at man with
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Feb 7, 2012
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THE NEXT BILLY GRAHAM
Baptist author and leader Russell Moore said recently: "The next Jonathan Edwards might be the man driving in front of you with the Darwin Fish bumper decal. The next Charles Wesley might be a ... profanity-spewing hip-hop artist right now. The next Billy Graham might be
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sunny Philip on May 16, 2006
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Susanna Wesley was a mother who had gone through much in her life. To begin with, during the first nineteen years of her married life, she gave birth to nineteen children. That turned out to be the least of her problems. Eight of those children died of natural causes and sickness. One child was
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Independent/Bible
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I would like to tell the story of one of the most famous spite fences in the world. It is, by the way, one of the reasons why privacy fences are often limited to 6 feet.
The story begins with two people. Nicholas Yung, an undertaker, who built a cottage in San Francisco in 1855 with his wife and
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Thomas Edison invented the microphone, the phonograph, the incandescent light, the storage battery, talking movies, and more than a thousand other things.
In December 1914 he had worked for ten years on a storage battery. This had greatly strained his finances. This particular evening,
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Baptist
Contributed by Evie Megginson on May 7, 2001
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Susannah Wesley, mother of John Wesley spent one hour each day praying for her 17 children. In addition, she took each child aside for a full hour every week to discuss spiritual matters. No wonder two of her sons, Charles and
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Baptist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jun 28, 2004
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Anybody can quit. As a matter of fact, quitting seems to be the rule of thumb for a lot of people, especially when it comes to marriage and family.
Ten years ago for every wife who left her family, 600 husbands did. Today for
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There is the story of a boy who attended a church that had stained-glass windows. When asked the meaning of the word saint, he said, “they are people the light shines through”. (Charles E. Bugg. ed. The Abingdon Preaching Annnual 2002. J.
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United Methodist
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 21, 2010
Quote Charles Spurgeon:
"The Holy Ghost works by those who feel they would lay down their own lives for the good of others, and would impart to them not only their goods and their instructions, but themselves also, if by any means they might save some. O
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Brethren
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 9, 2001
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PRESS ON
Press on.
Nothing in the world
Can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
Nothing is more common
Than unsuccessful men
With talent.
Genius will not:
Unrewarded genius
Is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
The world is full of
Educated derelicts.
Persistence and
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Wilson Mcmahon on Feb 28, 2007
Short and Long Term Survival
(from E-Sword)
Here is a spiritual insight from Charles A. Lindbergh: "Short term survival may depend on the knowledge of
nuclear physicists and the performance of supersonic aircraft, but long term survival depends alone on the
character of man. We must
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Church Of God
Rev. Billy Graham stated, "In times like this, we realize
how weak and inadequate we are, and our greatest
need is to turn in repentance and faith to the God of
all mercy and the Father of all Comfort. If ever there
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Sep 27, 2007
Charles Schwab -
In 1921 the first person to make one million dollars a year, when a person making $50. A week was well off, was Charles Schwab. He had been picked by Andrew Carnegie to become the first president of U.S. Steel Company.
Why did Andrew Carnegie pay him so much? Because he was a
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jul 19, 2004
In the Prison Fellowship newsletter, Jubilee, Charles Colson told of a young boy who became excessively fearful during the great New York blackout of 1977. When his parents questioned their son, he confessed that at the exact moment the lights went out, he had kicked a
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