Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Sep 29, 2005
In the hard school of life God’s answer to our problems don’t come in the form of neatly pre-packaged solutions, like strips of shrink-wrapped capsules labelled for each anxiety we have, carrying a certificate of immunity from the hazards of life.
If I may give a personal illustration of this.
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Baptist
Contributed by Michael De Rosa on Sep 10, 2006
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Probably never heard of Hetty Green. She died in 1916 and left an estate with an estimated value of $100 Million Dollars(not pesos and not 1960 but 1916). ?Hetty regularly ate cold oatmeal because it cost too much to heat it. ?Her son had his leg amputated because she took so long to get him
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Free Methodist
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Wayne Cordeiro tells of a receptionist from his church who has found a “little slice of heaven on earth” around God’s people:
He found out she worked her “day job” six days a week, and volunteered to be a receptionist at the church building her one day off.
He says:
“Why do you come here and do
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Don Jones on Feb 25, 2007
George Sweeting, in his book The No-Guilt Guide for Witnessing, tells of a man by the name of John Currier who in 1949 was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Later he was transferred and paroled to work on a farm near Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1968, Currier’s sentence was
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Baptist
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 4, 2009
What Happened Here Today?
One day a man came home from work to find total mayhem at home. The kids were outside still in their pajamas playing in the mud and muck. There were empty food boxes and wrappers all around.
As he proceeded into the house, he found an even bigger mess. Dishes on
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 29, 2009
George Sweeting, in his book The No-Guilt Guide for Witnessing, tells of a man by the name of John Currier who in 1949 was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Later he was transferred and paroled to work on a farm near Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1968, Currier’s sentence was
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Arron Chambers on Dec 21, 2011
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BRYON'S STORY
Do you know that Jesus is still in the life-changing business? Bryon Widner does.
Bryon used to be one of the leaders of the white power movement as the found of the Vinlanders gang of skinheads. He’d covered his body and face with tattoos that were designed to communicate hate and
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Christian Church
Contributed by Gene Barron on Mar 1, 2001
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A few years ago, the World Press Review carried a quotation from the National Concord of Lagos, Nigeria. That paper reported that twenty-six lakes have been found beneath the Sahara desert. The American space shuttle “Columbia” determined by echoes it received that there are miles and miles of
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Greg Yount on Oct 28, 2001
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Two frogs fell into a tub of cream. One looked at the sides of the tub, and saw that it was too
high to crawl over and said, “It’s hopeless.” He resigned himself to death, relaxed, and sank to the
bottom. The other one determined to keep swimming as long as he could. “Something might
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Contributed by Brad Bailey on Aug 9, 2004
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A minister had run out of time to prepare for a sudden funeral. Using the latest
technology, he went to his computer and found the funeral service he had used last,
and doing a word "search and replace", had the computer put in the name of the newly
deceased, "Edna", as a replacement for the
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ed Wood on Jun 10, 2005
A surgeon at the Baptist Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, talked realistically about economizing. The minimum daily wage there is less than the hourly wage here in our country. He said: “We discovered a long time ago that you could sew up people with nylon fishing line. I found that
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Baptist
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