THE CENTURY PLANT
Abraham has now reached the Century mark! He is 100 years old and Sarah is 90.
A common sight in America's Southwest desert is the century plant. It's unique. The century plant (Agave Americana) thrives in rocky, mountainous, desert sites. It has dramatic, splayed leaves that
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Baptist
Contributed by Johnny Creasong on Aug 22, 2007
A 24-year-old man literally dreamed of the phone number of his future wife one night and then, driven by his instinct, sent her a text message. Random recipient Michelle Kitson first appeared confused when she saw a message on her phone from an unknown number that read, "Did I meet you last night?"
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Church Of God
Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 29, 2008
Watch Your Step
As a child, my second home was a baby-sitters house. My father worked on rotating shifts as a policeman, so often times we even slept there. My sitter was one BIG lady - over 300lbs. After many times of wetting her bed, she took away my bed sleeping privileges and forced me to
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Susan Blader on May 13, 2008
Python Swallows Alligator
I read a rather weird news story in October of 2005. A researcher named Michael Barron was traveling through the Everglades National Park when he stumbled upon a bizarre sight.
Prior to his arrival, a 13-foot long Burmese python had apparently attacked and subdued a
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Disciples Of Christ
Contributed by James May on Apr 13, 2003
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While serving as a security guard for the US Army at Long Binh in 1969, it was one of my duties to ride “shotgun” on every civilian tank truck that came to our little compound to fill our water tanks with fresh water from wells that were dug by the Army.
The local villages had very little, if
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Mar 10, 2010
I’ll never forget my first experience using an automatic car wash. Approaching it with the dread of going to the dentist, I pushed the money into the slot, nervously checked and rechecked my windows, eased the car up to the line, and waited. Powers beyond my control began moving my car forward as
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
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"Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds." - John 19:39b
"If the aloe and myrrh were in dried or powdered formed, a whole row of sacks would probably be necessary to make up this weight, and Nicodemus must have had assistance to be able to transport the load. The
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 15, 2008
Plymouth, England, December 1: Being too particular about cleanliness can make you a lenient judge, says a strange but interesting British study.
Dr. Simone Schnall, a psychologist at University of Plymouth, stated that people who tend to wash their hands before making judgments are more likely to
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Contributed by Kenneth Squires on Jun 18, 2003
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Seven days before his death John Donne wrote: “And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for me.” (4) But, what comes before this statement tells the whole tale.
No man is an island, entire to itself; every man is a piece of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Dave Kinney on Nov 29, 2008
Billy Sunday once said, “I’m against sin. I’ll kick it as long as I’ve got a foot, and I’ll fight it as long as I’ve got a fist. I’ll bite it as long as I’ve got a tooth. And when I’m old and
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 6, 2010
NOTHING TO HOLD ON TO
In his book The Fisherman and His Friends, Louis Albert Banks tells of two men who were assigned to stand watch on a ship out at sea. During the night the waves from a raging storm washed one of them overboard. The sailor who drowned had been in the most sheltered place,
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Contributed by Vonnie E James on Oct 13, 2008
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The famous young man who died in a car crash a week or so ago was nicknamed "Kaution". He drank of the fountain of idolatry –for it is said that he washed his car three times a day and treated it like God. Noticed both he and the thing he worshiped were destroyed.
This morning God is reminding
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Baptist
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I love the story of the little boy who told his mother he had determined that he was six feet tall. When she asked how he had arrived at this conclusion, he told her he had used his shoe to measure and that he was six shoes tall. With a loving smile she sweetly told him that his shoe was not twelve
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Contributed by Alison Bucklin on Mar 30, 2023
Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
Not untwist - slack they may be - these last strands of man
In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
But, ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me
Thy wring-world
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Vernon Price on Apr 10, 2012
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NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD
One night in a church service a young woman felt the tug of God at her heart. She responded to God's call and accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior.
The young woman had a very rough past, involving alcohol, drugs, and prostitution. But, the change in her was evident. As
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Adventist
Contributed by Sermon Central on May 9, 2002
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THE HEAVEN OF SERVICE
Dr. Laura Schlessinger writes: "I was out at my mother and father’s house, a seventy mile round-trip from my own, because my mother needed a little help. She needed a little help because my father, who has full-blown Alzheimer’s, had taped duct tape all over the three long
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The African impala can jump to a height of over 10 feet and cover a distance of greater than 30 feet. Yet these magnificent creatures can be kept in an enclosure in any zoo with a 3-foot wall. The animals will not jump if they cannot see where their feet will fall. Faith is the ability to trust
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Nazarene
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