A young man rushed into a service station one day and asked the manager if he had a pay phone. The manager nodded, “Sure, over there.” The guy inserted a couple of coins, dialed and waited for an answer. Finally someone came on the line. “Uh, sir,” he said in a deep voice, “could you use an honest,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 7, 2008
Happiness People who attend religious services weekly or more are happier (43% very happy) than those who attend monthly or less (31%) and seldom or never (26%). Pew Research has found this correlation to be consistent over
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Gainesville, Florida. We held a sunrise service one Easter, and one of our members who was a photographer for the Gainesville Sun got a great shot of the early morning gathering. It made the front page in the late edition.
A few days later I got a letter that was “hot to the touch” with
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United Methodist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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Service to a just cause rewards us with more real happiness and satisfaction
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Contributed by Dale Pilgrim on Aug 1, 2009
My eldest daughter, Julia is a customer service agent for a cell phone company. While Julia receives calls from customers who are complaining and unhappy about a lot of things, Janine, who works at a dairy bar, gets all the happy people! I don’t need to tell you how unreasonable and sometimes
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Salvation Army
Contributed by Troy Mason on Aug 23, 2002
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Our Inheritance (Poem in honor of Jewel Hogan for her funeral, Oct. 18, 1997)
I dreamed that the Lord came by my bedside
And took me far away.
On a tour of Heaven,
Everywhere I looked my eyes
Saw the beauty of gold and prescious jewels
As abundant as the grass of the earth
Everywhere I walked
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Baptist
Contributed by Pat Cook on Jul 6, 2005
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I want to share in closing a poem, based in Job 13:15, written by a lady named Mary Kimbrough:
“Though He slay me, I will trust Him,”
Said the sainted Job of old;
“Though He try me in the furnace,
I shall then come forth as gold.
“Though the ‘worms of deep affliction’
Cause this body to
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Baptist
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