Contributed by Larry Wilson on Jul 4, 2010
What a shame to miss out on things. I would give anything to have a new opportunity to buy Ryan’s stock (a local restaurant in Greenville, S.C. that went national) when it first came out in my home town! I missed that one. But to
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Contributed by Charles Jones on Dec 16, 2010
Consider the church that had appointed a man and a woman to co-chair an important church event. The man refused, saying "I'm not going to serve with a woman. If I tell her anything, the whole town will know."
Not intimidated, the woman quickly
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Nov 7, 2011
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HIDDEN DEVIL
[Reuters] "Art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi, church officials said on Saturday. The devil was hidden in the details of clouds at the top of fresco
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Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 23, 2012
Francis Schaeffer said that "cultures can be judged in many ways, but eventually every nation in every age must be judged by this test: How did it treat people? Our own is not exception. Those who regard individuals as expendable raw material do battle on many
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Contributed by Jon Lipka on Mar 4, 2012
DENYING ONESELF
"To deny oneself is not to do without something or even many things. It is not asceticism, nor self-rejection or self-hatred, nor is it even the disowning of particular sins. It is to renounce the self as the dominant element in life. It is to replace the self with God-in-Christ as
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Oct 20, 2012
CURING NAIL-BITING
Talking of bad habits I did hear the story of an elderly couple. The wife proudly boasted that "she had cured her husband of biting his nails."
When someone asked her, "How did you manage
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Nov 2, 2012
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WE'LL COOK FOR MOTHER'S DAY!
Two kids told mother not to cook for Mother's Day ... they would do it.
Nine pots, 2 skillets, 4 large bowls, 11 spoons, 5 measuring cups and 1 whole roll of
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Contributed by Michael Dean on Jan 26, 2013
TRUSTING THE HISTORY
"..in this era of history, the most attacked part of the Bible's history is Genesis 1-11. When people understand they can trust the history of the early chapters of Genesis, they can better understand and be more responsive to the gospel--the gospel that is based
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 23, 2022
Two people were watching a man drive a herd of sheep through the main street of a small town.
“I thought shepherds led sheep. I didn’t know they drove them with a whip.”
“They do,” the other fellow remarked. “That’s not a
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Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Aug 13, 2008
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FLY LIKE AN EAGLE
A nature lover was once walking through the countryside when he came upon a farm. He walked up to the fence and looked into the barnyard. He saw lots of chickens and geese and other farm animals wandering and scratching about. Then he noticed one bird that didn’t fit. He looked
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Introduction: several men were named Obadiah in the Old Testament. This man, in this story, lived during the days of Ahab and Elijah. He was known for a few things, even though he is only mentioned in one passage of Scripture.
Text, 1 Kings 18:1-5, KJV: 1 And it came to pass after many days, that
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Apr 21, 2025
[083]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – FOR MEN - THE THREE Cs
There are 9 poems in this series. This poem is part of a Trilogy - three sets of three. The first set is addressed to MEN, the second to ALL CHRISTIANS and the third is SPECIFIC. This is the second one in the first set - FOR MEN.
ALL
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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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Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
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During the American Civil War fought between the years 1861 - 1865, over
600,000 soldiers from the South died, but a heartfelt prayer that survived
was the Prayer of the Unknown Confederate Soldier, a soldier¡¦s unrequited but
unsurpassed prayer:
I asked God for strength, that I might achieve,
I
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Contributed by Tim George on Feb 5, 2001
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Did I ever tell you about the young Zoad?
Who came to a sign at the fork of the road
He looked one way and the other way too
The Zoad had to make up his mind what to do - Well, the Zoad scratched his head,
And his chin, and his pants. - And he said to himself, "I’ll be taking a chance.
If I go to
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Contributed by Mary Lewis on May 9, 2001
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Are you a Risk-taker or a safety-seeker?
Responding to the increasing destructiveness of high winds in the Midwest, one developer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, offered an optional tornado-safe room in the new homes he was selling. It cost an additional $2,500 for the room—which can also be used as a
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