Contributed by Steven Platt on Nov 1, 2002
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According to Peter Kendall in the Chicago Tribune, Ruben Brown, age sixty-one, was known on the south and west sides of Chicago, as the friendly neighborhood cockroach exterminator with "the Mississippi stuff." The Mississippi stuff was a pesticide Brown had bought hundreds of gallons of in the
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Nov 6, 2002
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THE CHAMELEON
When the new nation of Israel was getting ready to go into the land that God had promised them, their leader, Moses, gave them instructions on how they should live as God’s people. God wanted them to prosper, but for this to happen, they had to avoid certain animals that could harm
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 15, 2002
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I WILL TELL YOUR NAME- COMMUNION MEDITATION
Roland Allen tells about a veteran missionary who came up to him one day after he had delivered his sermon. The missionary introduced himself and said, "I was a medical missionary for many years in India. And I served in a region where there was
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 17, 2002
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THE POWER OF GIVING THANKS
Something to reflect on as you sit down to your Thanksgiving dinner:
If you had been a Pilgrim, would you have given thanks?
Consider what they had been through, the men and women who broke bread together on that first Thanksgiving in 1621.
They had uprooted
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Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Nov 16, 2002
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Some weeks ago I was watching the Health Channel on TV. They showed and described different types of plastic surgery procedures. I was amazed at the things that plastics surgeons can do now-a-days. If you need more luscious lips, they can inject collagen and make your lips downright pouty. If
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Contributed by Karl Eckhoff on Jan 14, 2003
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I had my son’s 7th grade reading book at home this past week and I read a story written by Clifton Davis. You might know Clifton from the TV show entitled Amen. Clifton found success starring as the Reverend on the sitcom from the 1980’s.
It wasn’t success, however, that Clifton was encountering
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Contributed by Jeffrey Sackett on Jan 24, 2003
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The problem with not coming to church is that you’re like the radio operator on the USS California. They called the ship unsinkable. They claimed it was the safest ship on the Seas. But as the night of April 14th gave way to dawn of the 15th the British ocean liner, the Titanic, of the White Star
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2003
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GIVING AWAY GOODNESS
Mark Tidd of Webster, New York, describes an experience from his college days:
“An old man showed up at the back door of the house we were renting. Opening the door a few cautious inches, we saw his eyes were glassy and his furrowed face glistened with silver stubble. He
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Today it seems that all you have to do to sell a product is include some natural herb or mineral with it. Products ranging from shampoo to diet pills have all jumped on the “all natural” bandwagon. Just because something is all natural does not make it better or safe. There is one word in our
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Contributed by David Dykes on Mar 31, 2003
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THE ANSWER IS NO
I had a friend growing up who had the ugliest bicycle I’d ever seen. It was a hand-me-down made from the parts of other bicycles. It was so ugly it didn’t even have handlebar grips. He was always complaining that his hands would slip off the slick handlebars. He pestered his dad
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Contributed by Davon Huss on May 26, 2003
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John A Boor- I had an opportunity to work in a bakery while going to high school. I remember one particular day when the telephone rang and one of the ladies went to answer it. She put down the phone like it was hot and yelled, “He’s coming!” I wondered what in the world was going on. The
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Contributed by Kory Wilcoxson on Feb 19, 2005
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Growing up, I was a huge fan of the University of Kentucky basketball. I still follow them closely, but nothing like when I was younger. I idolized their players, I knew all their stats, I watched their games on TV like it was a life or death struggle. My favorite player when I was in third grade
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Feb 22, 2005
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The late Mike Royco wrote a national column out of the Chicago Tribune and he once told about a friend of his who was falling in love and his friend said that he was going to take his girl to a Seaside resort, stay for the week-end. And he said, "If it clicks, "I’m going to ask her to marry me."
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Contributed by Timothy Smith on Mar 26, 2005
Bobby Knight the Indiana basketball coach thought he’d been treated unfairly.. He thought a referee had given his team a bad call.. And he lost his composure. (Those of you who know Bobby Knight probably find that hard to believe.) But he stormed around the gym, he cussed out this referee in public
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Jul 29, 2005
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This is a series of quotes from cybernation.com, an excellent resource. These all deal with the issue of TRUTH.
“What is truth?” said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. – Francis Bacon
You never find yourself until you face the truth. – Pearl Bailey
Falsehood is cowardice, the
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STORY OF MARK TWAIN - Clarence Macartney wrote about the unbelief of Mark Twain.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) was one of our best-known American authors and humorists. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He is best known for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of
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