Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jul 31, 2005
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ILLUS: There was a man many years ago named Henry Ward Beecher. He was a prominent preacher here in America. He was invited on an occasion to attend a meeting of an atheist club where the noted agnostic Robert Ingersol was speaking. So Mr. Beecher, the preacher, accepted the invitation.
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Contributed by Lisa Delay on Sep 8, 2005
The woodland creature known as the porcupine weighs 15-20 pounds. This primarily nocturnal animal gets its name from the Latin word for pig and the French word for thorn. These “prickly pigs” have 30,000 quills each are a mass of tiny overlapping barbs. When threatened these rodents first try to
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Contributed by Bill Sullivan on Oct 11, 2005
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Quoting the English preacher John Daniel Jones: He lived from 1865-1942, this is from his sermon The Sovereignty of God
In our absorption in the thought of God as Father, we have almost lost sight of the fact that He is the Holy Sovereign, ruling the world in righteousness. The result has been
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On the lighter side of life:
From the book: Wacky Laws, Weird Decisions and Strange Statues, Main Street publishers.
Marriage and Family laws:
a. It’s against the law for children under the age of seven to go to college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
b. Although there are no R and X ratings for
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Feb 7, 2006
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Let me tell you about C.S.Lewis, the author of the Chronicles of Narnia. In 1952 he had been writing to one of his fans an American woman named Joy Gresham, a recent convert to Christianity, and who had been a Communist Jew. She was also going through a hard divorce. He autographed her copy of his
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From The Straits Times, Monday, September 30, 1996
"No money, no rescue"
A 6-YEAR-OLD boy drowned in a river in southern China after bystanders refused to rescue him unless his penniless sister paid to save her brother’s life, a newspaper reported.
Hongkong’s South China Morning Post said that
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While in college, my basketball and track coach was a gentleman by the name of Tommie Smith. For Tommie Smith to join the faculty of Oberlin College in 1972 was significant for two reasons. First, there were not many African American faculty members at Oberlin College at all in the early 1970’s,
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Contributed by David Selleck on Oct 26, 2006
Messy Spirituality, Mike Yaconelli
Mike tells of sitting in a hotel ballroom with fifteen hundred college students participating in a weekend faith conference. On the last day of the conference, with school starting the following Monday, the students made it clear they wanted to prolong the
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Methodist
Contributed by Kenneth Trent on Nov 26, 2006
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Seeing The Rainbow From God’s Side
Some years ago it was my privilege to be one of the speakers in a state-wide Bible Conference held in Dallas, Texas. Inasmuch as I was conducting a revival meeting in Houston that same week, it was necessary for me to fly to and from the Dallas appointment.
My
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Contributed by John Weeks on Dec 9, 2006
I have visited Japan three times in the past several years. It is a fascinating place of great contrasts – primarily – great beauty contrasted with great sadness. You see from my observation, the Japanese culture is one of materialism, self-satisfaction, rigid order and sexism – all of this
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Contributed by Doug Lyon on Dec 11, 2006
Charles Fuller was a radio Bible teacher years ago. He once announced that he would be speaking the following Sunday on the topic of “Heaven.” During that week, he received a letter from an elderly gentleman who was very ill—on his deathbed. The man wrote: “Next Sunday you are to talk about
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 26, 2007
The Jesus Store.
There was a woman once who wanted peace in the world and peace in her heart, but she was very frustrated. The world seemed to be falling apart and her personal life wasn’t that great either.
One day she decided to go shopping, and she went to the mall and walked in to one of the
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Contributed by James Jack on Jun 9, 2007
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I’m writing school reports at the moment. It’s something I hate doing. We have a system where you’re expected to write 50-100 words per student so that in the end over all your reports you’ve written tens of thousands of words most of which begin or end with “Johhny needs to be more focused in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Your affirmation can help to effect that sense of importance in another. Sometimes the touch of love is more verbal than physical. Sherman Rogers has written a book about logging in the Pacific Northwest.
As a young man he worked in a logging camp, and on one occasion the boss needed to be away
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Let me close with a true story of a humble black pastor in the inner city of Chicago who was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
“He was in his late sixties and had been a minister throughout his adult life. His love for the Lord was so profound that it was reflected in everything he said. When he
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Done to Escape Consequences
A fellow named Louie, deep in debt, was thinking of ending it all. "That’s ridiculous," says his neighbor, who was a chemist. "Look, I can give you a pill that will put you in a state of suspended animation. I’ll say you died - but then I’ll ship your body to another
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