Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 23, 2010
ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS
A friend once asked Isidor I. Rabi, a Nobel prize winner in science, how he became a scientist. Rabi replied that every day after school his mother would talk to him about his school day. She wasn't so much interested in what he had learned that day, but she always inquired;
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Contributed by John Sears on Jul 20, 2011
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GOOD WITHOUT GOD
An atheist organization recently got into hot water when it put up a billboard that crossed over onto church property. The message on the billboard read, "I can be good without God." What do you think? The funny thing is I agree, I think they are right!
They have hit something
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Oct 17, 2011
ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS
A friend once asked Isidor I. Rabi, a Nobel prize winner in science how he became a scientist. Rabi replied that every day after school his mother would talk to him about his school day. She wasn’t so much interested in what he had learned that day, but she always inquired,
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Contributed by Tim Smith on Feb 19, 2012
TAKING THE GOOD PATH
The media interviewed the second Chilean miner freed, and here is what he said, "The time down there changed me. God had one hand and the devil had the other hand, and when I was down there, I decided to let go of the devil and hold onto God. I buried 40 years of my life down
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Methodist
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 8, 2012
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GOOD FRIDAY IN THE PHILIPPINES
Ever since the 1950s, the men of the Philippines have had unusual tradition around Easter. It has grown to the point where from 50,000 to 75,000 people attend every year. The ritual that has drawn all these tourists to the Philippines is an odd and gruesome Good
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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GOOD versus GREAT
Bill Cosby said it this way:
God made a tree and said it was (pause) Good.
God made a rabbit and said it was (pause) Good.
Man made the refrigerator and said it was Amazing.
Man made the car and said it was Awesome or Fabulous.
We are fanatical about our creations. Praising
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Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jul 29, 2008
BUSINESS IS ALWAYS GOOD
I had a man in my last congregation who was in the snack business. He was part of a small company which supplied chips and pretzels and the like to mini markets and various retail outlets. One afternoon I asked Albert how business was, good or bad, up or down.
He looked at
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Nov 3, 2008
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John Stott writes,
"Not all envy is tainted with selfishness, because it is not always either a grudging discontent or a sinful covetousness. At base, envy is the desire to have for oneself something possessed by another. And whether envy is good or evil depends on the nature of the something
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Jan 12, 2009
"WHAT GOOD ARE YOU?"
Hideyoshi, a Japanese warlord who ruled over Japan in the late 1500s, commissioned a colossal statue of Buddha for a shrine in Kyoto. It took 50,000 men five years to build, but the work had scarcely been completed when the earthquake of 1596 brought the roof of the shrine
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