Contributed by John Perry on Jul 28, 2010
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THE IMPORTANT-LOOKING LAWYER
A young lawyer was setting himself up in his first private practice. As he sat in his office, which was basically bare except for his desk with a telephone on it and a book case filled with important-looking legal books, he wondered how long it would be before he got
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Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
DEAL WITH HABITS EARLY ON
An elderly teacher, with a pupil by his side, took a walk through a forest. Suddenly he stopped and pointed to four plants close at hand. The first was just beginning to peep above the ground, the second had rooted itself pretty well into the earth, the third was a small
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Illustration 2: In Tanzania, two guys went for an interview. One was smarter than the other but they were good friends and willing to work together so the less smarter could pass. The educated one said if he went first, he would come back with the answers to the interview questions. It happens that
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Contributed by Jim Butcher on Nov 15, 2018
Scott Harrison, founder of charity:water, shares this story:
"I recently had the chance to visit charity:water's very first project. It was a well that we had funded on my thirty-first birthday and then built in the IDP camp of Bobi, Uganda.
"The sprawling camp of 31,000 people had cleared out,
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Contributed by Chip Monck on Feb 15, 2005
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The Life You've Always Wanted, John Orteberg writes;
Sometime ago I was giving a bath to our 3 children. I had a custom of bathing together, more to save time than anything else. I knew that eventually I would have to stop group bathing, but for the time being it seemed efficient.
Johnny was
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Contributed by Bruce Landry on Jan 15, 2007
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Today we seek to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and we will start with a portion of Dr. King’s "I have a dream speech".
…And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 24, 2002
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I sat down and looked through some magazines this past week. I discovered that if I want to feel right, I need to get a NordicTrack. I don’t have a NordicTrack, just a membership down at the gym, so I suddenly realized that I didn’t feel as healthy as I thought I did.
I then read that if I
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I read about a Pastor who decided to experiment with changing those sad statistics in his church. He made a list of 12 people who had recently been baptized in their church, and then he and his wife invited them over. Naturally, these new Christians were thrilled to be invited to their Pastor’s
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The average child laughs 400 times a day,
the average adult laughs 15 times a day.
What happens in life that adults lose their laughter?
Do we quit laughing
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Contributed by Grant Macdonald on Nov 14, 2011
MISTAKEN FOR JESUS
Jeff Walling tells the story of Darrel. Darrel was a forty year-old youth worker. One service a month, the youth in his church went to Hokem Manor, which was an old age home. The old people would be wheeled in for the service. Some of them were aware, and others of them weren't.
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