Contributed by Joel Santos on Jan 4, 2005
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One of the most popular aquarium fish is the shark. If you catch a small shark and confine it, it will stay a size proportionate to the aquarium. Sharks can be six inches long yet fully matured. But if you turn them loose in the ocean, they grow to their normal length of eight feet. That can also
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Norman Vincent Peale wrote more than 46 books during his lifetime. His most popular book, The Power of Positive Thinking, was written in 1952 and has sold more than 20 million copies in 41 languages. Peale and his wife started Guideposts magazine; its circulation now tops 5 million, the largest of
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Contributed by Ezequiel Alaniz on Jan 10, 2005
Estaba un viejecito por nombre ( ----------) que fue internado en un asilo en el cual se la pasaba todos los días admirando a una viejecita que se llamaba (----------) hasta que ya no pudo mas y un día muy de mañana decidido y todo se fue al desayuno y terminando de desayunar se dirige a su
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Contributed by Ezequiel Alaniz on Jan 10, 2005
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Cierto día llegue de trabajar en la tarde, mi esposa me estaba sirviendo de comer en la sala mientras yo veía las noticias y cuando ya estaba la comida servida, me dije bueno voy a orar por los alimentos, y asi cerré mis ojos mientras que observaba un comercial entre medio del Noticiero y al
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Contributed by Bruce Howell on Jun 28, 2001
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I read recently about a door-to-door salesman who had the worst kind of luck. Day after day he’d walk up and down the streets with his product. No one would buy a thing. Every day he knocked on the same woman’s door. Every day she turned him away. Finally, he appeared on her doorstep for the
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Contributed by Mark Hiehle on Jul 19, 2001
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At the elementary school where our kids have attended, they each have had to take timed math tests on their math facts. Each week they had to answer correctly 30 questions in 3 minutes. If they were unable, they had to take the test again the next day until they could pass. For those that
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Contributed by Donn Heinrich on Feb 11, 2002
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"The greatest ability is dependablity"
(Dr. Bob Jones, Sr., Evangelist and Founder of Bob Jones
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Contributed by Isaac Chan on Mar 4, 2002
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Somewhere in the middle of Western Road Christian Cemetery, there is a rather unusual statue among the thousands of gravestones and hundreds of statues. It is not the statue of a man or woman or angel, not even of Jesus or Mary or saint… but of a dog. How many of you have seen it?
The story
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Contributed by Rod Macarthur on Mar 26, 2002
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My seventh grade math teach, Miss Patten, had the class exchange homework papers so we could grade each others papers as she read the answers. After grading the papers and returning them to their authors, we were each required to read out our letter grade as she called our names. The score thus
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Contributed by Alan Perkins on May 19, 2002
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This past December (12/01), the “Leaning Tower of Pisa” was finally reopened to the public, after having been closed for almost a dozen years. During that time, engineers completed a 25 million dollar renovation project designed to stabilize the tower. They removed 110 tons of dirt, and reduced its
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Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 20, 2001
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Chuck Swindoll, in his book, "Living Above the Level of Mediocrity," tells about a church in the Soviet Union a few years ago that was forced to meet secretly because the holding of house church services was illegal.
They tried to be as inconspicuous as possible as they gathered on Sunday
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Anonymous Quote: Hope looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst in them. Hope opens doors where despair closes them. Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot be done. Hope draws its power from a deep trust in God. Hope “lights a candle” instead of
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