Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 7, 2013
THE EGG PROMISE
Two brothers were getting ready to boil some eggs. "I’ll give you a dollar if you let me break three of these on your head," said the older one.
"Promise?" asked the younger.
"Promise!"
Gleefully, the older boy broke two eggs over his brother’s head.
Standing stiff for fear
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Ken Pell on Mar 16, 2013
The Immortal Chaplains
The USAT Dorchester was a troop transport ship used during WWII. It left New York on January 23, 1943 with approximately 900 soldiers and four army chaplains; George Fox, Alexander Goode, Clark Poling, and John Washington.
During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943,
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Nazarene
Contributed by Ken Pell on Apr 14, 2013
NEVER DONE WITH YOU
There is a show on the SyFy channel that Vickie and I watch called "Eureka." It is about a sheriff in a town of geniuses. The Sheriff is always working through comedic catastrophes that the geniuses have induced with their experiments. But the biggest dilemma the sheriff often
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Nazarene
Contributed by Bala Samson on May 24, 2013
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He will quiet you with His love!
Zephaniah 3:17”………..He will quiet you with His love…”
When I was admitted for an operation, the next room woman delivered a baby with a hole in her heart, the family did something which was horrendous and incredible, they decided to abandon her. The little infant
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Jim Kane on Apr 23, 2002
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HE DIDN'T LIFT US UP TO LET US DOWN
The Christian group the Imperials recorded one of my favorite songs over 20 years ago. It is called, “He Didn’t Lift Us Up To Let Us Down.”
“He didn’t bring us this far to leave us.
He didn’t teach us to swim to let us drown.
He didn’t build His home in us
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Church Of God
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 12, 2003
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I like the story about a professor who sat at his desk one evening working on the next day’s lectures. His housekeeper had laid that days mail and papers at his desk and he began to shuffle through them discarding most to the wastebasket. He then noticed a magazine, which was not even addressed to
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Contributed by David Yarbrough on Nov 12, 2001
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Despite the "Do Not Touch" signs, a museum was having no success in keeping patrons from touching--and soiling--priceless furniture and art. But the problem evaporated overnight when a clever museum employee replaced the signs with ones
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
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During Gladys Aylward’s harrowing journey out of war-torn Yang Chen during the Communist take-over, she faced one morning with no apparent hope of reaching safety. A 13-year old girl tried to comfort her by saying, "Don’t forget what you told us about Moses in the wilderness," to which Gladys
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Baptist
Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jan 6, 2001
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Sometimes His ways are hard to understand at the time, I can offer a personal example: Teenage children can be quite a trial, even a pain! 25 years ago my son was! He was keen on old vehicles that he intended to renovate. Against my better judgement, so I thought at the time, he acquired an old
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Baptist
Contributed by Jeff Kolk on Jan 27, 2001
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Pastor Steve Heartsill shares a story of A young man, who had worked for years on the railroad, wanted a job as a signalman for the railroad. For his interview, he was told to meet the inspector at the signal box. The inspector asked him, "What would you do if you realized that two trains were
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Baptist
Contributed by Mark Beaird on Nov 2, 2000
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Joni Eareckson Tada, who was paralyzed from the neck down while still a teenager, wrote, "You don’t have to be alone in your hurt! Comfort is yours. Joy is an option. And it’s all been made possible by your Savior. He went without comfort so you might have it. He postponed joy so you might share in
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Mark Beaird on Nov 2, 2000
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Oswald Chambers writes, "A saint’s life is in the hands of God as a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see; He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says, "I cannot stand any more." But God does not heed; He goes on stretching
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