Contributed by Shawn Rose on Feb 27, 2011
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SHIRLEY GOODNEST AND MARCY
A mom was concerned about her kindergarten son walking to school and he didn't want his mother to walk with him. She wanted to know that he was safe, yet give him the feeling that he had independence.
So she had an idea how to handle it. She asked a neighbor if she
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Oct 28, 2011
PRISON VS. FULL-TIME WORK
In prison you spend the majority of your time in an 8' X 10' cell.
At work you spend most of your time in a 6' X 8' cubicle.
In prison you get three meals a day.
At work you only get a break for one meal and you have to pay for that one.
In prison you get time off for
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A true story of how my close relative's urgent financial need was met by God's Providence!
Dear friends, Jesus is same yesterday, today & forever (Hebrews 13:8). Oh how many personal experiences I have had and oh how many true accounts I have heard from God’s servants of the Almighty using
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Contributed by David Goering on Aug 24, 2018
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Your family and one of your best friends families has decided to go camping, but you forgot to bring a container for water, on your way to the campsite your friend sees a container in the ditch he stops and picks it up, it has a skull and crossbones on the outside of the container, it says poison
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Contributed by Shawn Drake on Oct 25, 2001
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Object Lesson
Supplies Needed: One large pumpkin with the facial features cut out. When you cut out the features save them because you will need them during this object lesson. You will also need to save some of the slime and seeds from the inside. You will also need a candle.
Lesson: Could I
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Contributed by Evie Megginson on Aug 3, 2001
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Dr. H. A. Ironside, in his Lectures on Acts, recalls the story his mother told about his own dear father’s dying hour. The mother said, "Your father had this passage running through his mind. He kept repeating it constantly. ‘A great sheet and wild beasts and-and…’ He could not seem to get the next
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Contributed by Guy Mcgraw on May 7, 2002
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Martin Luther: In 1540 he had an assistant and friend named Friedrich Myconius. Friedrich had become sick and was on his deathbed and wrote Luther a farewell letter.
Luther immediately sent a reply, ‘I command you in the name of God to live because I still have need of you in the work of
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Contributed by Dean Kennedy on Aug 26, 2002
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"Ten Reasons Why I Never Wash."
1. I was forced to wash as a child.
2. People who wash are hypocrites--they think they’re cleaner than others.
3. There are so many kinds of soap, I could never decide which was right.
4. I used to wash, but it got boring.
5. I wash only on Christmas or Easter.
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Contributed by Gary Kins on Feb 7, 2003
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St. Valentine - Valentinus -- Christian martyr, c270 A.D. --
"Valentine was the name of a young man who lived in Rome during reign of Claudius II when Christians were being persecuted. Although he was not a Christian, he helped them, but he was caught and put into prison. In prison he became a
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Contributed by John Hamby on Feb 10, 2003
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THE PATIENT PRAYER
“George Mueller, the founder of a great Christian orphanage work in England in the 1800’s, was a powerful man of prayer. He knew the importance of keeping at prayer evne when the answer seemed delayed. When he was young he began praying that two of his friends might be saved. He
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Contributed by Michael King on Jul 20, 2003
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Sometime when you’re in an airport, observe the difference between passengers who
hold confirmed tickets and those who are on standby. The ones with confirmed
tickets read newspapers, chat with their friends or sleep. The ones on standby hang
around the ticket counter, pace and smoke, smoke and
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Contributed by Paul Fritz on Dec 30, 2003
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A marvelous song by Thomas Arne, set to the music of Isaac Watts, teaches us to endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ (2 Tim. 2:3)
"Am I a soldier of the cross, a follower of the Lamb. And shall I fear to own His cause or blush to speak His name?
Must I be carried to the skies on
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 2, 2004
A church secretary who had what she felt was a discreet sexual affair with her boss but was found out. When the affair was out in the open and because of the ensuring investigations her boss went to jail for 45 years and his wife divorced him and married his very close friend.
She considers
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Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Oct 27, 2004
Think about people who find themselves in religious ruts. They discover a number of things about themselves. They will find that they are getting older but not getting any holier. Time is their enemy, not their friend. The time they trusted and looked to is betraying them, for they often said to
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Contributed by Richard Mcnair on Nov 4, 2004
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1997------- From time to time we hear statistics about how people first came into church membership. These figures trace back to the Institute for American Church Growth, which asked 10,000 people about their pilgrimage. What led them in? Answers were: Special need, 2 percent; Walk-in, 3 percent;
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