Contributed by Rick Pendleton on Dec 12, 2003
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I stood by the grave of Irene Picket. Irene was 91 years old and had out lived her husband and children. She had an abrasive personality and a sharp tongue. That meant she had few friends. As her pastor I had visited her and had learned to love Irene. She was terribly interesting. She had been
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jun 16, 2009
We erect stone markers to identify the graves of the significant people we loved. When Cracker Jack creator Frederick Rueckheim decided to put a logo on the confection’s package in the early 1900s, he modeled it after his own beloved grandson Robert, who often wore a sailor suit.
But just as the
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T.H. Huxley, a well-known agnostic, was with a group of men at a weekend house party. On Sunday morning, while most of them were preparing to go to church, he approached a man known for his Christian character and said, "Suppose you stay at home and tell my why you are a Christian."
The
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MAN PRAYING AT WIFE’S 1ST HUSBAND’S GRAVE
A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly departed mother and started back toward his car when his attention was diverted to another man kneeling at a grave.
The man seemed to be praying with profound intensity and kept repeating, "Why did you
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Today one grave is open, and from it has risen a sun which will never be obscured, which will never set, a sun which creates new life.
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jun 5, 2001
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I would suggest this day that the empty tomb represents an emptied, not empty heart and life. The stone represents the sin that blocks the heart and life from being liberated and freed from the darkness that it contains. God, through Christ, has rolled
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have
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