In December 1925, guests at the swankiest hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, watched with interest as a mysterious man arrived in a Rolls-Royce driven by a chauffeur. Over the next days they studied this handsome man, who walked with an elegant cane, received telegrams at all hours, and only engaged
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Pentecostal
No pagan god had the best interests of humanity at heart. Moreover, no pagan god could be counted on to be consistent. So pagans offered up sacrifices and the best they could hope for is regular rain, no
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Catholic
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 27, 2008
"You don't hear that old saying much anymore, 'It is not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game that counts.' I don't think most people believe it -- or ever
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Independent/Bible
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Pentecost was originally an Old Testament festival, the only festival for which no specific date is given in the Bible, it is called the festival of weeks. Leviticus 23:15 however instructs the people to count 7 weeks from the
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Apostolic
Contributed by D. Greg Ebie on Sep 6, 2002
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Two young boys were out in a large field playing hide and seek. As the first boy leaned against a tree covering his eyes and counting to 100, the other boy ran across the field and climbed up into another tree to hide. Just then the first boy reached 100 and he yelled out, “ready or not here I
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 31, 2001
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Warren Wiersbe writes, "Our values determine our evaluations. If we value comfort more than character, then trials will upset us. If we value the material and physical more than the spiritual, we will not be able to count it all joy! If we live only
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Contributed by Thomas Cash on Dec 17, 2009
Jewish scribes, who kept up the Old Testament scrolls for centuries, had a nearly foolproof system for making perfect copies. First, a scribe would count the number of letters on the page to be copied. When he had finished his copy, he would count the number of letters on the new page and make sure
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 13, 2023
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There is an ancient Christian fable ... that tells of Jesus encounter ...as he reentered ...Heaven.
As the angels spoke with him, ...Gabriel, noticed ...that Jesus bore the marks of the cross, ...and being inquisitive, ...said to Jesus:
Master, ...you must have suffered terribly for those people
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Anglican
Contributed by Richard Francis on Mar 29, 2008
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In the early 1700’s a congregation of some 300 Hussites, Anabaptists, Calvinists and various disciples of non-conforming Christian doctrines came together seeking refuge on the estate of Count Zinzindorf in Saxony, East Germany also called Moravia. Like the Count who was 27 years old at the time
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I delight to steal away for days and weeks together, and bathe my spirit in the freedom of the old woods, and to grow young again...counting the white clouds that sail along the sky, softly and tranquilly...I like to steep my soul in a sea of quiet, with nothing
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Contributed by Rick Brown on Feb 23, 2008
SAINT WALKS IN ON
BISHOP AND SEES HIM COUNTING MONEY.
EXCUSE ME I DID NOT MEAN TO INTERRUPT. AS HE TURNS TO LEAVE THE BISHOP SAYS “NO LONGER CAN THE CHURCH SAY SILVER AND GOLD HAVE I NONE.” AS THE SAINT PULLS THE DOOR TO
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Baptist
Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on Sep 24, 2003
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When we are truly trusting God, then our faith will demonstrate itself through our choice of words.
c. What would you might have said if your were:
1) Noah pounding a nail
2) Joseph counting prison bars
3) David looking for rocks
4) Job
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jun 30, 2001
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I used to work for an American bank that had the slogan "Quality Loyalty Consistency - QLC". This was drummed into its employees as a means of getting the most out of them. A colleague thought they were too demanding and countered the slogan - in private - with his own interpretation of what QLC
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Baptist
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Myths are easily accepted as truth it they have been around a long time. Take the case of the spider. About 350 B.C., the Greek philosopher Aristotle classified the spider as having six legs. And for the next 20 centuries everyone believed the spider had six legs. No one even bothered to count and
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Seventh-Day Adventist
Contributed by Paul Wallace on Aug 30, 2004
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Statistics on Suicide in America
More than 30,000 reported annually (83 per day, 1 every 17 minutes)*(Experts believe the actual count is twice that high.) (And there are 8-20 attempts for each completed suicide)
Suicide is the 8th leading
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Dan Cormie on Sep 24, 2003
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WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE
Christ met unbelievers where they were. He realized what many Christians today still don’t seem to understand. Cultivators have to get out in the field.
According to one count, the gospels record 132 contacts that Jesus had with people. Six were in the Temple; four in
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Mennonite
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