Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Jan 2, 2008
There’s a movie called “The Guardian” about training in the Coast Guard Academy. There’s one guy in the story who’s trying again after failing the program 2X before. There was a phase of the training that stopped him every time – practicing saving a drowning victim who’s panicked. The instructor
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We can glorify God by how we react to life and death.
Some of you know Dorothy Krist a lady who was a member of our congregation for over 20 years.
For much of that time Dorothy had cancer.
And she encouraged me to use her story whenever I saw fit.
She spent the last three months of her life in
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EVEN LOST BOYS OVERCOME
Between 1983 and 2003, so many Christians were killed in the Sudanese Civil War that a whole community of orphaned children arose who have become known as the Lost Boys of Sudan. Lopez Lomong was one of those boys. At six years old, he was kidnapped from his parents at
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 26, 2009
Despite his busy schedule during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln often visited the hospitals to cheer the wounded. On one occasion he saw a young fellow who was near death. “Is there anything I can do for you?” asked the compassionate President. “Please write a letter to my mother,” came the reply.
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"A friend of mine, Bud Wood, founded Shepherds Home in Wisconsin for boys and girls with developmental disabilities. The original ministry opened its doors in 1964 to 36 children, providing them a loving residential environment and a school that would focus on their unique needs, helping them
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In the early days of IBM (variously dated to the 1920s–1960s), an employee was responsible for a major error that cost the company a significant amount of money—typically cited as $10 million (adjusted for inflation, that's over $100 million today; some versions say $1 million or $600,000). The
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DAD-ISMS
Here are a few dad-isms from a recent website I visited -
"Get in and get out."
This applied to an open back door or refrigerator. Just because you don’t pay the gas and electric bills, that doesn’t mean you should waste energy, he’d tell us as we alternately let the cold air into the
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Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 8, 2010
Most action movies I have seen have some aspect of revenge in their storyline. And I must admit it, when the bad guy finally gets killed, I find myself agreeing with the hero as he says “The guy was a jerk and deserved everything he got!” Am I the only one?
Some friends of mine were driving me
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Oct 3, 2025
[217]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - PLACED IN PERILOUS TIMES
Placed in perilous times spells the conditions that often apply to Christians in all ages. The believers in Roman times could very well know that. The Huguenots certainly knew that when hunted down by incited mobs from the French Catholic
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Benjamin Watson, who plays for the NFL New Orleans Saints posted the following on his Facebook page:
"At some point while I was playing or preparing to play Monday Night Football, the news broke about the Ferguson Decision. After trying to figure out how I felt, I decided to write it down.
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SHORT-TERM ENTHUSIASM
The story is told of a minister who was full of energy and enthusiasm for the Lord. One day he went to the hospital to visit one of his parishioners who was critically ill. The minister entered the room and saw the man lying in bed with a whole host of tubes and wires
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