Contributed by Jim Kane on Feb 27, 2010
"HEY BOB!" BUILDING MARGIN IN YOUR LIFE
In his book, The Short List: In A Life Full of Choices, There Are Only Four That Matter, Butterworth tells of the time when he came home to his family after another weekend speaking engagement when his then youngest son decided to start talking at the Monday
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Church Of God
Dear Dad,
Heroes are men who first of all are heroes for God and then heroes to their families. To be a hero for God, you need to yield your life 100% to Him.
What's in this name "hero"? Josh McDowell shares,
"A few years ago, a radio jockey polled almost two hundred teenagers in a shopping
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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I received a letter from a single mother who had raised a son who was about to become a dad. Since he had no recollection of his own father, her question to me was "What do I tell him a father does?"
When my dad died in my ninth year, I, too, was raised by my mother, giving rise to the same
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 29, 2002
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Ten years ago for every wife who left her family, 600 husbands did. Today for each man who leaves, two women do.
Charles Swindoll, Starting
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Contributed by Terry Kemp on Dec 23, 2006
From August 1975 thru July 1988 our family lived in Orange County, Indiana. Once and soon again to be the gambling center of the Hoosier state, Orange County was then stuck in a malaise of poverty. This was evidenced to many visitors by our waste collection service. Rather than setting trash
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 2, 2007
MOTHER’S DAY IS FAST APPROACHING and my mind went back many years ago to a TV program called, I Remember Moma (I guess I’m showing my age now). It was broadcast from 1949 to 1957 on CBS. It was a 30 minute show in black and white about a Norwegian-American family living in San Francisco in
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Dr. Benjamin Carson would agree listen to what he says about his mom:
Dr. Benjamin Carson, renowned surgeon at John Hopkins, has a story told about his mother by Kevin Lemam. Mrs. Carson insisted that Ben and His brother Curtis write a book report every couple of weeks. This wasn’t for school-this
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on May 9, 2011
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GOODBYE, MOTHER!
A young man was walking through a supermarket to pick up a few things when he noticed a little old lady following him around. Thinking nothing of it, he ignored her and continued on. Finally he went to the checkout line, but she got in front of him.
"Pardon me, sonny" she said,
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 17, 2001
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On a February day in 1925, Floyd Collins climbed into Sand Cave in search of fortune. Suddenly, his lantern failed. Crawling through the darkness, Collin’s foot hit a seven-ton boulder. It fell on his leg, trapping him in the coffin-like narrowness of a dark, subterranean straitjacket. For days
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Contributed by Simon Rundell on Jan 19, 2001
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The devout priest was caught in a flood one day, and he climbed onto the roof of his Vicarage and as the water started lapping up over the roof he prayed “Lord, deliver me from this flood”.
The water continued to rise and a policeman in a rowing boat passed: “Can I help you Vicar?” “No thanks, the
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
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One of my favorite comedies is "Groundhog Day", a make-believe story about
a weather man, Phil Conners who has a bad attitude, even worse manners, and a razor tongue. He was was reporting on Groundhog Day from a small town he cared little about. The fuss the folks were paying to a groudhog he
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