Contributed by Bill Purvis on Oct 20, 2008
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Churchhill’s Father
Winston Churchhill’s father was jealous of Winston. He couldn’t speak a kind word of him. Curchhill, the greatest leader of the day, in the book, "The Last Lion" says, "I would rather had been an apprentice for a brick layer, or run errands as a messenger boy, or dressed the
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Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Jun 16, 2009
CHILDREN AND THEIR FATHERS
An old English proverb tells how important fathers are. It says: "A father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." Fathers are often more appreciated at different ages of their children. Mark Twain had the candour to admit a change in his perception of his father: "When I
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Contributed by Guy Glass on Jun 14, 2010
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FATHER WILL BE ANGRY
The story is told of a young boy was driving a big hayrack down the road and it turned over right in front of a farmer's house. The farmer came out and saw the young boy crying and said, "Son, don't worry about this, we can fix it. Right now dinner's ready. Why don't you come
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
A FATHER'S WISDOM
A father and his small son were out walking one day when the lad asked him a question. "Dad, how does electricity could go through the wires stretched between the telephone poles?
"I don't know," said his father. "I never knew much about electricity."
A few roads farther on,
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A WINNING FATHER
One of the most powerful stories in the history of the Olympic Games involved a canoeing specialist named Bill Havens. He was a shoe-in, I'm told, to win a gold medal in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. But a few months before the Games were held, he learned that his wife
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Mar 8, 2012
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A FATHER'S PROTECTION
Certain Native American tribes had a rite of passage for their teenage boys. At age 13 a boy would be blindfolded and led to a certain spot in the woods. He would be forced to sit down while the men of the tribe returned to their camp. The boy would be required to sit all
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Some of you may know of Fiona Coote. At the age of 14 she became youngest heart transplant recipient in Australia.
However Fiona has another claim to fame: She has received not just one heart transplant but three. On three occasions she
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Contributed by David Moore on Nov 14, 2008
HEART LIKE A JAFFA CAKE
Did you ever wonder why a Jaffa Cake is a Jaffa Cake and not a Jaffa Biscuit? Apparently HM Customs and Excise wondered the same thing, especially when cakes are VAT free and biscuits incur 17.5 percent, so given the popularity of Jaffa Cakes the government decided to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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There is only one quality worse than hardness of the heart and that
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what
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